Larisa Leonidovna Petrik is a former Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion. Petrik competed at the 1966 World Championships where she shared in the team silver medal and earned an individual bronze medal on the beam. She also competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where she received a gold medal in floor exercise, a gold medal in team combined exercises, and a bronze medal in balance beam. Her gold medal on floor was very controversial because originally, ?�slavsk� won outright. After the competition was concluded, Petrik's prelims scores were changed to let her tie with ?�slavsk�, an action which caused ?�slavsk� to publicly defy the Soviets who had recently invaded her home country. After marrying the Olympic gymnast Viktor Klimenko she changed her last name to Klimenko. She has two sons: Vladimir and Viktor; Vladimir is a gymnast and Viktor is a ballet dancer. 

August 28th, 1949 in Dolinsk (Age 75)