Valery Nikolaevich Brumel

Valery Brumel (1966)

Valery Nikolajewitsch Brumel ( Russian Валерий Николаевич Брумель ; born April 14, 1942 in Tolbusino near Chita ; † January 26, 2003 in Moscow ) was a Soviet athlete in the high jump discipline .

Career

Brumel's father was a geologist of German descent who had adopted the Russian Orthodox faith. Brumel won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 with a height of 2.16 m at the same height with the Olympic champion Robert Schawlakadze , also Soviet Union. Third place went to reigning world record holder John Thomas . In 1964 Brumel was Olympic champion at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with a height of 2.18 m before John Thomas, who also crossed 2.18 m. Between the two Olympic medals, Brumel managed to win the 1962 European Championship in Belgrade with 2.21 m . He was a champion of the USSR from 1961 to 1963 and was named Europe's Sportsman of the Year three times by the Polish press agency Polska Agencja Prasowa (PAP) .

From 1961 to 1971 he held the world record and was able to improve it six times during this time. The last high mark was 2.28 m, which he crossed in 1963. In 1965 Brumel suffered a leg injury in a traffic accident that effectively ended his career. For six years he tried to build on his top form, where he only managed to jump 2.06 m.

He then tried his hand at writing non-fiction books and published a novel and a drama as well as a libretto for an operetta , all of which were a mirror of his own biography. He was the divorced husband of the dressage rider Jelena Petuschkowa . In 1992 he was the managing director of an export-import company for medicines in Geneva . From 1994 until its dissolution in October 2002 he was Vice President of the Association Internationale Nadezhda , a foundation for the promotion of artistically gifted young people based in Troinex . A few months later, Brumel died after suffering from cancer for a long time. His grave is in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery . In 2014 he was inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tribuna Sporturilor No. 120 from March 6-12 July 1992 (Romanian)
2. ↑ Registre du Commerce du Canton de Genève , accessed on August 25, 2018 (French)
3. ↑ Obituary: Valery Brumel , accessed on August 25, 2018 (English)

Web links

Commons : Valeriy Brumel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Waleri Brumel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )