Michael Nikolay

Michael Nikolay
Nikolay in 1979
Personal information
Born	(1956-12-13) 13 December 1956 (age 69) East Berlin, East Germany
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	East Germany
Club	SC Dynamo Berlin
Medal record Olympic Games 1980 Moscow Team 1976 Montreal Pommel horse 1976 Montreal Team 1980 Moscow Pommel horse World Championships 1981 Moscow Pommel horse 1978 Strasbourg Team European Championships 1977 Vilna Pommel horse

Michael Nikolay (born 13 December 1956) is a retired German gymnast. He competed at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a bronze and a silver medal with the East German team, respectively. Individually he won two bronze medals in the pommel horse at both Games; he also finished fourth on the horizontal bar and on the parallel bars in 1980.^[1]

At the world championships, he won a gold medal in the pommel horse in 1981 and a bronze in the team competition in 1978.^[2] He also won a European silver in the pommel horse in 1977.^[3]

References

1. "Michael Nikolay". sports-reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
2. Turnen – Weltmeisterschaften Herren. sport-komplett.de
3. Turnen – Europameisterschaften Herren. sport-komplett.de

External links

• Michael Nikolay at World Gymnastics
• Michael Nikolay at Olympedia
• Michael Nikolay at InterSportStats