Dmitri Trouch

Position: Assistant Coach Experience: 16th Year at Iowa

Dmitri Trouch is in his 16th year on the Iowa staff.

He came to Iowa in the fall of 1996 to replace Kurt Golder who accepted the Head Coach position at his alma mater, the University of Michigan. He was recruited with the help of his former teammate, Alex Kolyvanov. Following his Gold Medal team performance at the 1996 Olympics he returned home to Russia to see his son Alexander, who was born while he was in Atlanta competing at the Olympic Games. Following a short visit he headed to Iowa City to begin a new life as a Hawkeye.

Dmitri competed on nu¬merous Russian National teams between 1990 and 1996. He was the National Russian horizontal bar champion in 1994 and competed in the 1994 Euro¬pean and World Championships. In 1995, he was forced to retire from gymnastics with a knee injury, but after surgery made an inspirational comeback. In May 1996, he helped the Russian team win the Eu¬ropean Championships. In June of that same year, Trouch won the All-Around National Championship (The Russian Cup) in Moscow; and culminated his suc¬cessful career by helping the Russian team upset the highly favored Chinese team to claim the 1996 Summer Olympic Gold Medal.

Both Trouch and Kolyvanov are from Voronezh, Russia. Trouch was born Feb. 8, 1973. He and his wife, Marina, have a son, Alexander, and a daughter, Polina. On July 9, 2004, Trouch became a United States citizen.