Yuri Nikolajewitsch Litujew

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Yuri Nikolajewitsch Litujew ( Russian Юрий Николаевич Литуев , English transcription Yuriy Lituyev ; born April 11, 1925 in Irbit ; † March 2, 2000 ) was a Soviet athlete . He was the best European 400 meter hurdler of the 1950s. With a height of 1.83 m, his competition weight was 78 kg.

Career

Yuri Litujew was third in the Soviet championship in the 400-meter hurdles in 1949. From 1950 to 1955, as well as 1957 and 1958, he was Soviet champion. In 1959 he finished second.

He won his first international medal at the European Championships in Brussels in 1950 . In 52.4 s he won silver behind the Italian Armando Filiput . At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , he won silver in 51.3 s behind the American Charles Moore . In Helsinki he also started in the 400-meter run and in the 4-by-400-meter relay , with the relay he was eliminated in the preliminary run, over 400 meters flat he no longer competed in the intermediate run.

On August 20, 1953, Litujew improved Glenn Hardin's 19-year-old world record by two tenths of a second to 50.4 s in the international match against Hungary in Budapest . Helsinki Olympic champion Anatoly Julin finished second in this race, one second behind.

At the 1954 European Championships in Bern , Julin surprisingly won in 50.5 seconds ahead of Litujew in 50.8 seconds. On October 13, a city comparison match between Moscow and London took place in London. All distances were run on metric courses except for the long hurdle course which was carried out over 440 yards. Litujew ran for 51.3 seconds and undercut Charles Moore's record on this route by three tenths of a second. Englishman Harry Kane was second in this world record run ahead of Anatoli Julin.

Even at the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 , Litujew was the best European. In 51.7 s he finished fourth behind three Americans. Olympic champion was Glenn Davis , who had also significantly improved Lituiev's world record on the metric course with 49.5 s in the US trials. With the Soviet 4 x 400 meter relay, Litujew failed like four years earlier in the run-up.

At the European Championships in Stockholm in 1958 , Litujew won a European title with 51.1 s. He was five tenths of a second ahead of second-placed Swede Per-Owe Trollsås .

literature

  • ATFS (Ed.): USSR Athletics Statistics. London 1988
  • Manfred Holzhausen: world records and world record holder. 110m / 120y hurdles / 400m / 440y hurdles. Grevenbroich 1997
  • Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )

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