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Template:Infobox sportsperson Yury Yakovlevich Tsapenko (Template:Lang-ru; 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.<ref name=r1/>
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.<ref name=r2/><ref name=r3/>
His wife Natalya Tsapenko is also a former competitive gymnast and coach.<ref name=r2/><ref name=r3/>
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Categories:
- 1938 births
- Living people
- Gymnasts at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts of the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Kazakhstani male artistic gymnasts
- Soviet male artistic gymnasts
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
