| Yevgeni Korolkov | |||||||||||||||||||
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Korolkov at the 1954 World Championships
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9 September 1930 Moscow, Russia |
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| Died | 24 December 2014 (aged 84) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dynamo Moscow | ||||||||||||||||||
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Yevgeny Viktorovich Korolkov (Russian: Евгений Викторович Корольков, 9 September 1930 – 24 December 2014) was a Soviet gymnast who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal in the team competitions and a silver in the pommel horse. Similarly, at the 1954 World Championships he won a team gold and a silver on the rings. After retiring from competitions he worked as a gymnastics coach in Moscow. His trainees included Mikhail Voronin and Sergey Diomidov.