Youri Vorobyev

Who is Youri Vorobyev?

Youri Vorobyev is a Soviet-born coach of acrobatic gymnastics who produced more than a dozen world-championship acrobatic gymnasts during his coaching career in the Soviet Union and Russia.

He currently resides and coaches in the U.S. state of California. He is the owner and head coach at Realis Gymnastics Academy in Southern California’s Moreno Valley, which is the training facility for seven members of the 2011 junior and senior U.S. national acrobatic gymnastics teams.

Vorobyev’s odyssey from Russia to the United States began when he met U.S. mixed-pair gymnast Arthur Davis of Empire AcroGymnastics at a competition in Belgium. The gymnast's parents assisted Vorobyev with the legal process of gaining residency in the U.S., where Vorobyev then began to coach their son and his mixed-pair partner, Shenea Booth, at Empire AcroGymnastics in Riverside, California.

Under Vorobyev’s tutelage, Davis and Booth became the first U.S. athletes to win the mixed-pair all-around gold medal at the 2002 Sports Acrobatics World Championships in Riesa, Germany.

Two years later, Vorobyev's athletes repeated their world-championship gold-medal performance in the all-around at the 2004 Sports Acrobatics World Championships in Lievin, France.