Vitaly Scherbo Biography
Vitaly Scherbo, (born January 13, 1972, Minsk, Belarus, U.S.S.R.), Belarusian gymnast who was the primary gymnast to win six gold medals in a single Olympics.
Scherbo, the son of athletes, rapidly superior in Soviet sports activities, competing in his first gymnastics meet on the age of seven. At age 15 he grew to become a member of the Soviet nationwide crew, and his first important success got here in 1989, when he positioned fourth within the mixed occasion (encompassing all six gymnastic disciplines) on the Chunichi Cup in Nagoya, Japan.
In 1990 in Minsk, Scherbo gained his first nationwide championship—within the final Soviet nationwide championship event—and attracted worldwide consideration with victories on the Goodwill Games in Seattle, the Blume Memorial in Barcelona, and the Chunichi Cup, the place he additionally gained 4 particular person occasions. Although he completed second on the World Cup mixed workout routines in Brussels and fifth in that competitors on the European championships in Lausanne, Switzerland, Scherbo gained particular person gold medals on the European championships within the horizontal bar and the flooring train and at each meets within the vault. He scored an ideal 10—an distinctive achievement in males’s gymnastics—within the vault on the 1990 Goodwill Games, and one other 10 within the pommel horse on the 1991 U.S.S.R. Cup, the place he gained the mixed occasion.
In world championships Scherbo completed second within the mixed occasion, flooring train, and vault in 1991 in Indianapolis. In 1992 in Paris he was first within the pommel horse and the rings and second within the flooring train. He positioned first or second in 4 occasions of the 1992 European championships in Budapest, successful the ground train and the vault.
In 1992 Scherbo grew to become the primary gymnast to win six gold medals in a single Olympics and gained extra gold medals than another athlete on the Olympic Games in Barcelona. He earned particular person victories within the pommel horse, nonetheless rings, vault, parallel bars, and mixed workout routines and gained a crew gold medal in gymnastics as a member of the Unified Team, which consisted of athletes from the previous Soviet republics. At the 1996 Games in Atlanta, Scherbo gained bronze medals within the particular person mixed workout routines, the vault, the parallel bars, and the horizontal bar. He retired from competitors in 1997, and he opened a gymnastics college in Las Vegas the next 12 months. In 2009 he was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.