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Yuri Chechi has competed for Italy Yuri Chechi has won 1 gold medal at the Olympic Games Yuri Chechi has won 1 bronze medal at the Olympic Games

Yuri Chechi is a gymnast who has competed for Italy. He competed at the 1988, 1996, and 2004 Summer Olympic Games.

Chechi was more notable for his dominant specialty during the 1990s, the rings; hence, he was nicknamed The Lord of the Rings. After finishing sixth in the men's rings final at Seoul 1988, Chechi was expected to become a top medal contender in his dominant specialty at Barcelona 1992 but withdrew shortly before the Games because of a tore Achilles tendon. He rebounded from his serious injury to successfully capture the men's rings title four years later in Atlanta. Following a historic triumph, Chechi became the first Italian gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal since Franco Menichelli topped the podium on the floor exercise at Tokyo 1964.

Shortly after his second Games, Chechi retired from competitive gymnastics in 1997 but returned to the sport two years later in an attempt to defend his men's rings title at the succeeding Olympics. Few months before Sydney 2000, he suffered a serious injury on the biceps that forced him to withdraw from the competition and miss a chance for his gold-medal defense on the rings.

Despite overcoming a spate of injuries throughout the quadrennial cycle, Chechi successfully enacted an attempted comeback for a spot on the Italian gymnastics team at his third and final Olympics in 2004, eight years after his previous feat. There, he secured a podium spot with a bronze in the men's rings, finishing behind the winner and crowd favorite Dimosthenis Tampakos and the runner-up Jordan Jovtchev of Bulgaria by five tenths of a marginal score. Chechi was also selected to carry the Italian flag during the opening ceremony.

Olympic Results[]

Year Event Result
1988 Men's individual all-around 17th
Men's team 8th
Men's floor 15th
Men's vault 33rd
Men's parallel bars 18th
Men's horizontal bar 66th
Men's rings 6th
Men's pommel horse 22nd
1996 Men's individual all-around 17th
Men's team 12th
Men's floor 47th
Men's vault 20th
Men's parallel bars 87th
Men's horizontal bar 65th
Men's rings Gold
Men's pommel horse 39th
2004 Men's individual all-around 85th
Men's team 12th
Men's parallel bars 30th
Men's rings Bronze
Men's pommel horse 54th

1988[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 116.550
Final 117.275
Team Final 579.000
(116.550)
Floor Qualification 19.600
Final Did not advance
Vault Qualification 19.300
Final Did not advance
Parallel bars Qualification 19.600
Final Did not advance
Horizontal bar Qualification 18.850
Final Did not advance
Rings Qualification 19.700
Final 19.800
Pommel horse Qualification 19.500
Final Did not advance

1996[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 112.186
Final 57.124
Team Final 564.142
(112.186)
Floor Qualification 18.725
Final Did not advance
Vault Qualification 19.200
Final Did not advance
Parallel bars Qualification 17.437
Final Did not advance
Horizontal bar Qualification 18.487
Final Did not advance
Rings Qualification 19.512
Final 9.887
Pommel horse Qualification 18.825
Final Did not advance

2004[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 28.499
Final Did not advance
Team Qualification 221.431
(28.499)
Final Did not advance
Parallel bars Qualification 9.587
Final Did not advance
Rings Qualification 9.762
Final 9.812
Pommel horse Qualification 9.150
Final Did not advance
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