Volodymyr Sterlyk

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v. l. To the right: Zigmas Jukna, Antanas Bagdonavičius, Wolodymyr Sterlik and Juozas Jagelavičius at the award ceremony as European champion in the four without a helmsman in 1965

Volodymyr Iwanowytsch Sterlyk (or Sterlik Ukrainian Володимир Іванович Стерлик / Стерлік , Russian Владимир Иванович Стерлик Vladimir Ivanovich Sterlik * 15. October 1940 in Poltava ) is a former Soviet - Ukrainian rower .

Athletic career

The 1.93 m tall Sterlyk von Avangard Kiev moved into the Soviet eighth in 1963, with which he won the silver medal behind the Germans at the European rowing championships in 1963 and 1964. At the Olympic Games in 1964 , the Soviet eighth finished fifth.

In 1965, the Ukrainian Wolodymyr Sterlyk and the Lithuanians Antanas Bagdonavičius , Zigmas Jukna and Juozas Jagelavičius changed from eight to four without a helmsman and won gold in this boat class at the European Championships in 1965 and World Championship silver in 1966 behind the boat from the GDR . In 1967 the four rowers with helmsman Juri Lorenzson won the European championship in the four with helmsman . After bronze in the eighth behind the Germany eighth and the Australians at the 1968 Olympic Games , Sterlyk again won European championship silver in 1969 behind the GDR eighth.

Sterlyk rowed his last international medal at the European Championships in 1971, when he achieved third place behind the two German boats with the steered foursome. At the 1972 Olympic Games , only Sterlyk and helmsman Igor Rudakow from the bronze foursome of the previous year were in the boat. The newly assembled foursome took fourth place behind the two German foursomes and the Czechoslovaks.

International medals

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, EM = European Championships)

Web links

Commons : Volodymyr Sterlyk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. European Championships in the eighth
  2. European championships in foursome without a helmsman
  3. European championships in four with a helmsman