Yevgeny Korolkov | |
Birth Date: | 9 September 1930[1] |
Birth Place: | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Discipline: | MAG |
Club: | Dynamo Moscow |
Yevgeny Viktorovich Korolkov (Russian: Евгений Викторович Корольков; 9 September 1930 – 23 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.[2] [3]