Aleksandr Dityatin, who won eight medals at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, has died at age 68, according to the International Gymnastics Federation , the Russian Olympic Committee and the Russian Gymnastics Federation.

Dityatin was one of two athletes to win eight medals at a single Olympics. Swimmer Michael Phelps won eight golds at the 2008 Beijing Games, plus six golds and two bronze at the 2004 Athens Games.

In 1980, Dityatin earned team, all-around and still rings gold for the Soviet Union.

He added silvers on high bar, parallel bars, pommel horse and vault and bronze on floor exercise, giving him a medal in every men’s artistic gymnastics event. On vault, he became the first man to earn a perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics history.

Dityatin also won four gold medals at the 1979 Worl

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