Viktor Yakovlevich Klimenko (, born 25 February 1949) is a retired Russian gymnast. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a team silver medal on each occasion. Individually he earned a bronze medal in parallel bars in 1968, as well as a gold medal in pommel horse and a silver medal in vault in 1972. At the world championships Klimenko collected four medals in 1970–1974. His wife Larisa Petrik is also a former Olympic gymnast.

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1949 births

Living people

Russian male artistic gymnasts

Soviet male artistic gymnasts

Olympic gymnasts for the Soviet Union

Gymnasts at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Gymnasts at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union

Olympic medalists in gymnastics

Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union

Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union

Gymnasts from Moscow

European champions in gymnastics

Viktor Klimenko (gymnast)