Vasily Rudenkow

Vasily Rudenkow
Full name	Wassili Wassiljewitsch Rudenkow
nation	Soviet Union Belarusian SSR
birthday	May 3, 1931
place of birth	Schlobin , Soviet Union
size	187 cm
Weight	96 kg
job	Trainer
date of death	2nd November 1982
Place of death	Schlobin, Soviet Union
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	68.95 m (October 1961 in Tbilisi )
society	Dynamo Moscow
End of career	1968
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Rome 1960 67.10 m
last change: April 4, 2020

Wassili Wassiljewitsch Rudenkow ( Russian Василий Васильевич Руденков , Vasilij Vasil'evič Rudenkov ; born May 3, 1931 in Schlobin , BSSR ; † November 2, 1982 there ) was a Belarusian hammer thrower who started for the Soviet Union . He celebrated his greatest success with the Olympic victory in Rome in 1960.

Athletic career

Impressed by the achievements of the Belarusian hammer thrower Mikhail Krivonossow , Vasily Rudenkow only started throwing the hammer at the age of 21, while he was also working as a railroad worker. In 1957 he went to Moscow to train more intensively. In 1960 he qualified for participation in the Olympic Games in Rome , where he set a new Olympic record with a width of 67.10 m in the final and thus secured the gold medal ahead of the Hungarian Gyula Zsivótzky and thus the first gold medal won for the Soviet Union in this discipline. In 1962 he took part in the European Championships in Belgrade , where he finished sixth, which was disappointing for him, with a throw of 63.94 m. He continued his career until 1968 and then worked as an athletic trainer. He died on November 2, 1982 at the age of only 51 in his hometown of Schlobin.

From 1959 to 1961 Rudenkow was the Soviet hammer throw champion.

Awards

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor : 1960

Web links

• Vasily Rudenkow in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Wassili Rudenkow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )