20. Oktober 2009  
Vladimir, Russia  
Artistic Gymnastics

Russia s Ryazanov dies in car crash

Yuri RYAZANOV (RUS)
... what a bereavement!

... very, very sad news from Russia:
Only five days after winning the all-around bronze medal at the Worlds in London, the Russian gymnast Yury RYAZANOV was killed in a car crash on Tuesday, the Russian police pronounced the media.
On his way to his hometown  Vladimir around 200 km east of the Russian capital Moscow, his car collided head on with another vehicle, so the Russian gymnastics federation informed.
He 22-years old Russia's most promising gymnasts died at the scene .... what a sorrowful bereavement ...!!
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