Please answer the following question: Facts: - imagesize: 260px - weight: 65 kg lb on - discipline: mag - caption: michael nikolay in 1979 - height: 1.75 m ftin on - club: '' sc dynamo berlin '' - birth date: 13 december 1956 - name: michael nikolay - image: bundesarchiv bild 183-u1206-0032 , michael nikolay.jpg - birth place: berlin , germany Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of michael nikolay .
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michael nikolay -lrb- born 13 december 1956 -rrb- is a retired german gymnast .he competed at the 1976 and 1980 summer olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a bronze and a silver medal with the east german team , respectively .individually he won two bronze medals in the pommel horse at both games ; he also finished fourth on the horizontal bar and on the parallel bars in 1980 .at the world championships , he won a gold medal in the pommel horse in 1981 and a bronze in the team competition in 1978 .he also won a european silver in the pommel horse in 1977 .