Mikhail Voronin

Mikhail Yakovlevich Voronin (Михаил Яковлевич Воронин; 26 March 1945 – 22 May 2004) was a Soviet and Russian gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Voronin trained at Dynamo in Moscow and became an Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1966.

He won the all-around and rings titles at the 1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

He also won 15 medals at the European Championships, including gold medals in the all-around (1967, 1969) and on rings (1967, 1969, 1971), parallel bars (1967, 1969) and pommel horse (1967).

He won seven medals, including two gold, at the 1968 Summer Olympics, as well as two silver medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

He won national titles in the all-around (1968–71) and on the rings (1966–67, 1969–72), pommel horse (1967, 1969–70), parallel bars (1967, 1969), high bar (1971) and floor exercise (1966).

Voronin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1969, and became an Honoured Trainer of the Russian SFSR in 1979 and Honoured Trainer of the USSR in 1980.

After the 1972 Olympics, he retired from competition and became a gymnastics coach.

He was the head coach at Dynamo from 1973 to 1994, and president of the club from 1994 until his death in 2004.

In 1973, he graduated from the State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Culture.

An element or horizontal bar was named after Mikhail Voronin.

It's a back uprise and piked vault with 1/2 (180°) turn to hang.

Voronin's first wife, Zinaida Voronina, and son Dmitry Voronin were also competitive gymnasts.

From 1978 to 1988, he was also president of the Russian Gymnastics Federation.

He and Voronina divorced in 1980.