Yuri Titov
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Full name | Yuri Yevlampiyevich Titov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 27 November 1935|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Burevestnik Kiev[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yuri Yevlampiyevich Titov (Russian: Юрий Евлампиевич Титов; born 27 November 1935) is a former Russian gymnast, Olympic champion and four times world champion, who competed for the Soviet Union.[2] He won a total of nine Olympic medals from three Olympic games (1956, 1960 and 1964).[1][3]
Olympics[]
Titov competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where he won a gold medal in team combined exercises with the Soviet team (with Viktor Chukarin, Valentin Muratov, Boris Shakhlin, Albert Azaryan and Pavel Stolbov).[4] He also won an individual silver medal in horizontal bar, and bronze medals in all-around and vault.[4] He won silver and bronze medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome,[5] and two silver medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[6]
World championships[]
Titov won gold medals in vault and team at the 1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Moscow, and bronze medals in all-around, floor exercise, rings and horizontal bar.
He won gold medals in all-around and rings at the 1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Prague, as well as a team silver medal.
European championships[]
Titov won 14 medals at the European gymnastics championships.[7]
Later career[]
Titov was president of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) for 20 years, from 1977 to 1996.[2][7] As the FIG President, he was also a member of International Olympic Committee in 1995–1996. He was president of the Russian Artistics Gymnastics Federation from 2004[8] until 2006 and then first vice president.[1]
Writing[]
He has written and published four books, among others, one about rhythmic gymnastics (with Nadejda Jastriembskaja).[9]
Awards[]
Titov received the Olympic Order from the International Olympic Committee in 1992.[7] He was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1999.[7]
He received the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1960, and again in 1980.[2] He received the Order of Friendship of Peoples in 1976, and the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1957.[2]
See also[]
- List of multiple Olympic medalists
References[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yuri Titov. |
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Yuri Titov. sports-reference.com
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Юрий Евлампиевич Титов – Yuri Titov – www.peoples.ru (in Russian) (Retrieved on 4 September 2008)
- ^ Yuri Titov Archived 2007-02-10 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 2 September 2008)
- ^ Jump up to: a b "1956 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Gymnastics" Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 2 September 2008)
- ^ "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Gymnastics" Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 2 September 2008)
- ^ "1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Gymnastics" Archived 2007-09-04 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 2 September 2008)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Honored Inductees – YURI TITOV – Russia – International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (Retrieved on 4 September 2008)
- ^ "Russia: Yuri Titov new President, Svetlana Khorkina Vice-President". ueg-gymnastics.com. 22 December 2004. Archived from the original on 2011-08-18. Retrieved 4 December 2008.
- ^ Nadejda Jastrjembskaia, Yuri Titov (1999). Rhythmic Gymnastics. Human Kinetics. ISBN 0-88011-710-9.
External links[]
- Yuri Titov at Olympedia
- Yuri Titov at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Yuri Titov at FIG (licence)
- Yuri Titov at Sports Reference (archived)
- 1935 births
- Living people
- Russian male artistic gymnasts
- Soviet male artistic gymnasts
- Olympic gymnasts of the Soviet Union
- Gymnasts at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- International Olympic Committee members
- Sportspeople from Omsk
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Universiade medalists in gymnastics
- Presidents of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
- Universiade silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Medalists at the 1961 Summer Universiade
- European champions in gymnastics