Birth Date: | 1938 7, df=y |
Birth Place: | Alma-ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
Height: | 1.64m (05.38feet) |
Weight: | 59kg (130lb) |
Sport: | Artistic gymnastics |
Club: | Dynamo Moscow |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Yury Yakovlevich Tsapenko (Russian: Юрий Яковлевич Цапенко; born 25 July 1938) is a retired Soviet artistic gymnast. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a silver medal in the team allround competition and a bronze medal on the pommel horse.
During his career he won five national titles: on the floor (1961), parallel bars (1961) and pommel horse (1961, 1963, 1964). After retirement he worked as a coach, first in Moscow and then in his native Almaty.
His wife Natalya Tsapenko is also a former competitive gymnast and coach.