Alexander Dityatin

Who is Alexander Dityatin?

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Dityatin is 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. Tying Mark Spitz's record, Dityatin also held the all-time Olympic record for most individual medals at a single Games, at seven, until Michael Phelps broke it at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Dityatin competed for the Leningrad Dinamo sports society.