Yevgeny Viktorovich Korolkov

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Yevgeny Korolkov Apparatus gymnastics
Personal information
Surname: Yevgeny Viktorovich Korolkov
Nationality: Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Soviet Union
discipline Apparatus gymnastics
Birthday: October 9, 1930
Place of birth: Moscow , Soviet Union
Death day: December 24, 2014
Place of death: Sergiev Posad , Russia
Medals
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver 1952 Helsinki Pommel horse
gold 1952 Helsinki team
Logo of FIG World championships
silver 1954 Rome Rings
gold 1954 Rome team

Yevgeny Wiktorowitsch Korolkow ( Russian Евгений Викторович Корольков ; born October 9, 1930 in Moscow , Soviet Union ; † December 24, 2014 in Sergiev Posad , Russia ) was a Soviet floor and apparatus gymnast . His greatest successes are winning two Olympic medals in 1952 in the team all- round competition (gold) and pommel horse (silver). Furthermore, he received two world championship medals in 1954 in the team (gold) and in the rings (silver).

life and career

Korolkov began his career as a gymnast in his native Moscow, where he took part in the All-Russian Youth Championships in 1945. He achieved second place in the individual all-around competition in the boys' category, as well as first place in the pommel horse. A year later he took part in the main competition, where he won gold medals in the following four competitions: individual all-around, pommel horse, rings and parallel bars. In 1949 Korolkov was a participant in the Moscow City Championships, where he won the silver medal in the individual all-around. He also won the gold medal in the team all-around at the Soviet gymnastics championships that year and was ninth in the individual all-around. In the same year at the dual meet between the Soviet Union and Hungary he achieved gold in the team all-around, as well as bronze in the individual all-around, on the pommel horse, on the rings, on the parallel bars and on the horizontal bar. In 1950, in addition to a total of four gold medals at the Moscow City Championships, as well as a first and a fifth place at the Soviet gymnastics championships, he was also accepted into the national team of the Soviet Union. In the following year, he mainly prepared for the Olympic Games in the following year and completed relatively fewer missions. A gold medal in the individual all-around at the city championships of Moscow was also followed by gold in the team at the state championships and a fifth place in the individual at the same event.

In 1952 he took part in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki with the Soviet national squad after the city championships, in which he reached fourth place in the individual . There he took part in various competitions from July 19, the opening day of the Olympic Games. In addition to rear or middle placements in horse jumping (44th place), floor exercise (35th place) or horizontal bar (23rd place), he also placed in the top 10. He was seventh on the rings and fifth on parallel bars and silver medalist (together with Hrant Schahinjan ) behind Viktor Ivanovich Tschukarin . In the individual all-around event, he finally ranked sixth with 113.35 points; with the team he finally managed the gold medal ahead of Switzerland and Finland. A year later he reached fourth place in the individual and the silver medal in the team at the State Championships of the Soviet Union. In 1954 Korolkov took part after a gold medal in the individual all-around at the Moscow City Championships at the World Gymnastics Championships in Rome in 1954 , where he won a gold medal with the Soviet national team in the team competition in addition to a silver medal on the rings. In the individual all-around it was only enough for a seventh place. At the state championships of the same year it was only enough for a ninth place in the individual, but again for the gold medal in the team.

In 1955 Korolkow was able to win gold again at the state championships, after he himself also won silver on the rings and was only fifth or sixth in the individual all-around competition. He was again gold medal winner in the Soviet national championships in the following year 1956 in the team classification, after it was only enough for a fifth on the rings and only a bronze medal on the pommel horse. At the subsequent USSR Cup in Kiev in 1957 , the third edition of this competition, the Soviet gymnast was only fifth in the individual all-around after two bronze medals on the rings and parallel bars. This was also the last major tournament in which the Moscow native participated as an active player. In the same year he was awarded the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union and graduated from the Pedagogical Institute in Moscow, after which he became a teacher and trainer. His protégés during this time include the later two-time Olympic champion Mikhail Voronin and the two Olympic silver medalists Valeri Karassjow and Sergei Diomidow . He did a large part of his coaching work at the Russian club Dinamo Moscow . In 1972 Korolkov received the medal "Hero of Labor" and in 1997 the "Badge of Honor for Services to the Development of the International Olympic Movement of Russia". He has received the honors of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1952) and Honored Trainer of Sports of the USSR (1968). He was also honored as a Hero of the Russian Federation and received in his career as a coach the State Prize of the USSR or the Francysk Skaryna medal , as well as other notable awards.

In December 2014, Korolkov died at the age of 84 in the Russian city of Sergiev Posad; with him also died the last gold medal winner in the team all-round competition of the men at the 1952 Olympic Games. The former Olympic champion was buried on December 27, 2014 in Europe's largest cemetery, the Khovanskoye cemetery in Moscow.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Olympic Encyclopedia. (No longer available online.) 2006, archived from the original on December 29, 2014 ; Retrieved December 29, 2014 (Russian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / slovari.yandex.ru
  2. Умер олимпийский чемпион 1952 года Евгений Корольков (Russian), accessed December 28, 2014
  3. Скончался Евгений Викторович Корольков ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian), accessed December 28, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mgo-dynamo.ru