Oleg Grigoryevich Tyurin

Tyurin and Dubrowski 1965

Oleg Tyurin ( Russian Олег Григорьевич Тюрин * 29. June 1937 in Sinyavino , Leningrad Oblast , † 3. March 2010 in Saint Petersburg ) was a rower from the Soviet Union. He won Olympic gold in a double scull in 1964.

The victory at the European Championships in 1961 was the last great success of Yuri Tjukalow and Alexander Berkutow in double sculls. At the World Rowing Championships in 1962, Oleg Tyurin and Boris Dubrowski represented the Soviet Union for the first time and won the silver medal behind the French René Duhamel and Bernard Monnereau . Tyurin and Dubrowski each weighed only around 75 kilograms and were therefore more like lightweight rowers. Nevertheless, the two won three Soviet championship titles from 1963 to 1965. At the European Championships in 1963 they took third place behind the boats from Czechoslovakia with Vladimír Andrs and Pavel Hofmann and from the United States with Seymour Cromwell and Donald Spero .

In 1964 Tjurin and Dubrowski won the title at the European Championships in Amsterdam in front of the British boat and Melchior Bürgin and Martin Studach from Switzerland. At the 1964 Olympic Games , Cromwell and Spero won the first, Tjurin / Dubrowski the second and Andrs / Hofmann the third. These three boats were able to clearly set themselves apart from the rest of the field in the final. The two rowers from CSKA Moscow won two and a half seconds ahead of the Americans, who in turn had one second ahead of the Czechs; Ten seconds behind, Bürgin and Studach took fourth place. The following year, Bürgin and Studach won the European Championships in Duisburg ahead of Tjurin and Dubrowski. This was the last international medal for the two Soviet rowers.

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Oleg Tyurin  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Oleg Tyurin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• World championships in double sculls
• European championships in double sculls