Alexander Dityatin

Alexander Dityatin
Александр Дитятин
Born(1957-08-07)7 August 1957
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR
DiedOctober 2025(2025-10-00) (aged 68)
Gymnastics career
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Country
represented
Soviet Union
RetiredYes
Medal record
Olympic Games
1980 Moscow Team
1980 Moscow All-around
1980 Moscow Rings
1976 Montreal Team
1976 Montreal Rings
1980 Moscow Pommel horse
1980 Moscow Vault
1980 Moscow Parallel bars
1980 Moscow Horizontal bar
1980 Moscow Floor Exercise
World Championships
1979 Ft. Worth Team competition
1979 Ft. Worth All-around
1979 Ft. Worth Vault
1979 Ft. Worth Still rings
1981 Moscow Team competition
1981 Moscow Parallel bars
1981 Moscow Still rings
1978 Strasbourg Team competition
1978 Strasbourg Still rings
1978 Strasbourg All-around
1978 Strasbourg Floor exercise
1979 Ft. Worth Horizontal bar
European Championships
1979 Essen Pommel horse
1979 Essen Still rings
1975 Bern Parallel bars
1979 Essen Parallel bars
1975 Bern All-around
1975 Bern Still rings

Alexander Nikolaevich Dityatin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Дитятин; 7 August 1957 – 14 October 2025) was a Russian gymnast, three-time Olympic champion and Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. Winning eight medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics, he set the record for achieving the most medals of any type at a single Olympic Games. The American swimmer Michael Phelps has now twice equalled this record, at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Dityatin competed for the Leningrad Dinamo sports society.