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Ryazanov won bronze at worlds

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

MOSCOW -- Russian gymnast Yury Ryazanov was killed in a car crash on Tuesday, five days after winning a bronze medal at the world championships, police said. Ryazanov was driving on a highway to his home city of Vladimir, about 125 miles east of Moscow, when his car collided head on with another vehicle, a Russian gymnastics federation spokeswoman said. He died at the scene. The 22-year-old had just returned home from the world gymnastics championships in London where he finished third in the ...

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