Yuri Yevlampievich Titov

Juri Titow, Dortmund 1966

Juri Titow, Dortmund 1966

Yuri Jewlampijewitsch Titow ( Russian Юрий Евлампиевич Титов ; born November 27, 1935 in Omsk ) is a former Soviet gymnast .

Athletic career

Yuri Titov belonged to the Soviet gymnastics team from 1956 to 1966, he won an Olympic gold medal with the team and a total of nine Olympic medals. In 1956 and 1960 he finished third in the individual all-around competition. At the gymnastics world championships Titov won ten medals, including four gold medals, at the gymnastics world championships in 1962 in Prague he won the all - around against the all- around Olympic champions of 1964 Yukio Endo and 1960 Boris Schachlin . At the club level, Titov started for Burewestnik Kiev .

After active sport

Titow was President of the World Gymnastics Federation, Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique , from 1976 to 1996 . In 1995 he was accepted as President of the Gymnastics Federation in the International Olympic Committee , but left when he resigned in the Gymnastics Federation in 1996. In 1999 he was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

successes

Olympic games

• 1956
  • 3rd place all-around singles
  • 1st place all-around team
  • 8th place bars
  • 5th place floor
  • 2nd place horizontal bar
  • Place 10 rings
  • 5th place pommel horse
  • 3rd place jump
• 1960
  • 3rd place all-around singles
  • 2nd place all-around team
  • 5th place in bars
  • 2nd place floor
  • 5th place horizontal bar
  • 6th place rings
  • 5th place pommel horse
  • 4th place jump
• 1964
  • 13th all-around individual
  • 2nd place all-around team
  • 2nd place horizontal bar

World championships

• 1958
  • 3rd place all-around singles
  • 1st place all-around team
  • 3rd place floor
  • 3rd place horizontal bar
  • Place 3 rings
  • 1st place jump
• 1962
  • 1st place all-around individual
  • 2nd place all-around team
  • 1st place rings
• 1966
  • 2nd place all-around team

European championships

• 1957
  • 2nd place all around
  • 3rd place horizontal bar
  • Place 2 rings
  • 1st place jump
• 1959
  • 1st place all-around individual
  • 1st place bar
  • 3rd place floor
  • 2nd place horizontal bar
  • 1st place rings
  • 1st place pommel horse
  • 1st place jump

literature

• Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970

Web links

• Yuri Titow in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (English)
• Juri Titow in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Yuri Titow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 460.