Valentin Grigoryevich Mankin

Valentin Mankin medal table
Sailors
Soviet Union
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1968	Finn dinghy
gold	1972	Tempest
gold	1980	star
silver	1976	Tempest

Valentin Grigoryevich Mankin ( Russian Валентин Григорьевич Манкин ; born August 19, 1938 in Kiev ; † June 1, 2014 in Viareggio , Italy ) was a Soviet sailor of Ukrainian origin. He competed in five Summer Olympics between 1964 and 1980 and won three gold and one silver medal from 1968 to 1980. This makes him the third most successful sailor in Olympic history, after the Briton Ben Ainslie and the Dane Paul Elvstrøm, together with the German Jochen Schümann, and the only sailor who became Olympic champion in three different boat classes .

Career

Valentin Mankin first started in Tokyo in 1964 at the Olympic Games. In his second participation in the 1968 Games in Mexico City , he won the competition in the one-man boat class Finn-Dinghy . Four years later at the 1972 Games in Munich he was again Olympic champion, this time together with Vitaly Dyrdyra in the Tempest boat , in which Olympic competitions were held for the second time in 1972. In the same boat class, he finished second with Wladyslaw Akymenko at the 1976 Games in Montreal . With Akymenko he became world champion in 1972 . After the Tempest boat had been removed from the Olympic program after the 1976 Games, he started his fifth and last Olympic participation in 1980 in Moscow with Aleksandrs Muzičenko in the Star class and became Olympic champion for the third time. A participation in the 1984 Games in Los Angeles was denied him due to the Olympic boycott of the Soviet Union.

Valentin Mankin's active career spanned a total of 33 years from 1955 to 1988. After the end of his career, he was the coach of the Soviet sailing team at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul . Since the 1992 games in Barcelona he coached the Italian team. The 2008 Games in Beijing were thus the eleventh Olympic Games, in which he participated as an active or as a coach.

Web links

• Walentin Mankin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Sailing World - Valentin Mankin (English, with picture)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary