Tags: Gymnast.
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Dityatin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Дитятин born August 7 1957 in Leningrad) is a Russian gymnast three-time Olympic Champion and Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. Winning eight medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics he set the record for achieving the most medals of any type at a single Olympic Games. The American swimmer Michael Phelps has now twice equalled this record at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.