Igor Aramowitsch Ter-Owanessjan
athletics | ||
bronze | 1960 | Long jump |
bronze | 1964 | Long jump |
Igor Aramowitsch Ter-Owanessjan ( Russian Игорь Арамович Тер-Ованесян ., English transcription Igor Ter-Ovanesyan; * 19th May 1938 in Kiev ) is a former Soviet - Russian Athlete of Armenian origin, among others, in the 1960s the world record in long jump held.
Life
In the course of his long sporting career, Igor Ter-Owanessjan was fifteen times Soviet champion, twelve times in the long jump and three times as a member of the 4 x 100 meter relay . He improved the Soviet long jump record eleven times. He jumped a world record, a European record and seven European records in the hall, the last of which lasted for 28 years. He was the first European to jump over eight meters. He won two Olympic bronze medals and five medals at European championships, three of which were gold.
Igor originally wanted to become a decathlete . The first discipline he seriously practiced was pole vault , after he came under the care of pole vault specialist V Zaporizhanov at the Institute of Physical Culture in Lvov , where he began his training in 1956. In 1954 he set his first record in the junior age group. Two years later he set his first Soviet record with a long jump of 7.74 m and won a championship for the first time in 1957.
successes
Olympic games
- 1956 in Melbourne : Transferred three times in qualification and thus eliminated
- 1960 in Rome : bronze with 8.04 m behind Ralph Boston with 8.12 m and Bo Roberson with 8.11 m, both USA
- 1964 in Tokyo : Bronze with 7.99 m behind the Briton Lynn Davies with 8.07 m and Ralph Boston with 8.03 m
- 1968 in Mexico City : fourth with 8.12 m behind Bob Beamon with 8.90 m, Klaus Beer (GDR) with 8.19 m and Ralph Boston with 8.16 m
- 1972 in Munich : Eliminated as 13th of the preliminary fight
European championships
- 1958 in Stockholm : Gold with 7.81 m ahead of Poland's Kazimierz Kropidłowski with 7.67 m and Henryk Grabowski with 7.51 m
- 1962 in Belgrade : Gold with 8.19 m ahead of Finns Rainer Stenius and Pentti Eskola , both with 7.85 m
- 1966 in Budapest : Silver with 7.88 m behind the Briton Lynn Davies with 7.98 m and in front of the French Jean Cochard with 7.88 m
- 1969 in Athens : Gold with 8.17 m ahead of Lynn Davies with 8.07 m and Tõnu Lepik (USSR) with 8.04 m
- 1971 in Helsinki : Silver with 7.91 m behind Max Klauß (GDR) with 7.92 m and in front of the Pole Stanisław Szundrowicz with 7.87 m
European championships in the hall
- 1966 in Dortmund : Gold with 8.23 m ahead of the two Germans Armin Baumert with 7.79 m and Joachim Eigenherr with 7.60 m
- 1968 in Madrid : Gold with 8.16 m ahead of Tõnu Lepik (USSR) with 7.87 m and the German Bernhard Stierle with 7.59 m
- 1971 in Sofia : Silver with 7.91 m behind Hans Baumgartner with 8.12 m and in front of the Romanian Vasile Sarucan with 7.88 m
European Cups
- 1965 in Stuttgart : Gold with 7.86 m ahead of Frenchman Jean Cochard with 7.52 m and Hans-Helmut Trense ( Federal Republic of Germany ) with 7.51 m
- 1967 in Kiev : Gold with 8.14 m ahead of Poland's Andrzej Stalmach with 7.88 m and Josef Schwarz ( Federal Republic of Germany ) with 7.85 m
Universiads
- 1961 in Sofia : Gold with 7.90 m ahead of Takayuki Okasaki with 7.67 m and the Bulgarian Ivan Ivanov with 7.58 m
- 1963 in Pôrto Alegre : Gold with 7.95 m ahead of Wolfgang Klein ( Federal Republic of Germany ) with 7.70 m and the Cuban Carlos Diaz Martinez with 7.45 m
- 1965 in Budapest : Gold with 8.19 m ahead of Briton Lynn Davies with 7.89 m and Oleg Alexandrow ( USSR ) with 7.53 m
Records
- World record with 8.31 m on June 10, 1962 in Yerevan , Russian Ереван (improvement of Ralph Boston’s previous record by 3 centimeters)
- Indoor world record with 8.24 m in 1966 in Dortmund ( improved to 8.30 m in 1968 by Bob Beamon )
- European record with 8.35 m on October 19, 1967 in Mexico City (setting of the world record by Ralph Boston)
family
“Prince Igor”, as the tall, black-haired athlete was often called, comes from a sporty family.
- Parents: Aram Avetissowitsch Ter-Ovansjan, professor of sports education and successful as a discus thrower, and Valentina Ivanovna Ilyinskaya, who played volleyball and tennis. Both were graduates of the Institute of Physical Culture in Moscow, where Igor grew up.
- Siblings: Wiktorija, married Ter-Owanessjan-Misula.
- Wife and children: Igor Ter-Ovanessjan has a son and a daughter from his first marriage to Margarita Yurievna Yemeljanowa. With his second wife, Olga Arturowna Klein, he has another daughter named Jana, born in 1982.
Professional activities
- 1971: PhD in education
- 1972–1976: Assistant to the head coach of the Athletics Administration at the Sports Committee of the USSR
- 1976–1978: First trainer of the union school for elite sport
- 1978–1983: National long jump coach
- 1983–1989: Head coach of the national team
- 1989–1992 President of the Soviet Athletics Federation
- 1991: Membership in the IAAF Council
- 1993–2000 deputy chairman of the Committee of the Russian Federation for Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism
- 1996 professor at the Chair for Theory and Methodology of Athletics at the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture
- 2000: President of the Fund "Sport versus Drugs"
- 2001: Chairman of the Main Council of National Team Coaches at the Sports Committee of the Russian Federation
Igor Ter-Ovanessjan now lives in Moscow.
Web links
- http://www.peoples.ru/sport/atlete/ter-ovanesian/
- http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/sports/deep/interv/s_int_igor_ter-ovanesyan.htm
- http://www.infosport.ru/xml/t/person.xml?id=274
- http://www.pseudology.org/TerOvanesian/
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ter-Owanessjan, Igor Aramowitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Тер-Ованесян, Игорь Арамович (Russian); Ter-Ovanesyan, Igor |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet long jumper |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1938 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev , Soviet Union |