Viktor Danilowitsch Saneyev

Viktor Saneyev
Full name	Viktor Danilowitsch Saneyev
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	October 3, 1945
place of birth	Sukhumi , Georgian SSR
size	188 cm
Weight	78 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	17.44 m
society	Dinamo Sukhum , Dinamo Tbilisi
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × 1 × 0 × European championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Indoor European Championships 6 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Mexico City 1968 Triple jump gold Munich 1972 Triple jump gold Montreal 1976 Triple jump silver Moscow 1980 Triple jump European championships gold Athens 1969 Triple jump silver Helsinki 1971 Triple jump gold Rome 1974 Triple jump European Indoor Championships silver Madrid 1968 Triple jump gold Vienna 1970 Triple jump gold Sofia 1971 Triple jump gold Grenoble 1972 Triple jump gold Katowice 1975 Triple jump gold Munich 1976 Triple jump gold San Sebastian 1977 Triple jump

Viktor Danilowitsch Sanejew ( Russian Виктор Данилович Санеев , Georgian : ვიქტორ სანეევი, English transcription Viktor Saneyev ; born October 3, 1945 in Sukhumi , Georgian SSR ) is a former Soviet three-jumper .

Viktor Saneyev, who was 1.88 m tall and had a competition weight of 78 kg, is the most successful triple jumper ever with three Olympic victories, one Olympic silver medal, two European championships outdoors and six European championships indoors.

Indoor games 1968

Viktor Saneyev stepped into the limelight for the first time in 1968 when he won the silver medal at the European Indoor Games with 16.69 m and two centimeters behind Mikalaj Dudkin (also Soviet Union).

1968 Olympic Games

By the beginning of the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968 , Sanejew had jumped to fourth place on the all-time best list with 16.87 m, Józef Szmidt's world record was 17.03 m. This world record was already exceeded in the qualification when the Italian Giuseppe Gentile jumped 17.10 m.

On October 17, 1968, a final followed that went down in track and field history. In the first attempt, Gentile increased his qualifying world record to 17.22 m. In the second attempt, the Brazilian Nelson Prudêncio increased to 17.05 m. In the third attempt, Saneyev jumped 17 meters for the first time in his life and immediately improved the world record to 17.23 m. In the fifth attempt, Prudêncio set a new world record with 17.27 m. In the sixth and last attempt, Saneyev jumped 17.39 m and won gold in front of Prudêncio and Gentile.

Within an hour, the world record was broken four times by three different jumpers. A total of six jumpers, including Mikalaj Dudkin, jumped over 17 meters. The defending champion Jozef Schmidt finished seventh. This performance explosion was favored on the one hand by the altitude in Mexico City, on the other hand by a very friendly wind, because the anemometer showed the maximum permissible value of 2 m / s for all four world records.

1969 to 1972

At the European Championships in Athens in 1969 , Saneyev won the title at sea level with a wind-assisted 17.34 m, his best regular jump of 16.94 m would have been enough for gold. 1970 Saneyev won the title at the European Indoor Championships with 16.95 m. He was able to repeat this title win in 1971 and 1972. At the European Championships in Helsinki in 1971 , Sanejew won silver behind Jörg Drehmel from the GDR. A few days earlier, Saneyev had also lost the world record when the Cuban Pedro Perez jumped 17.40 m in Cali.

At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , Sanejew was able to retaliate for the defeat at the European Championships, he won gold with a wind-assisted 17.35 m gold in front of Jörg Drehmel, Nelson Prudêncio came in 3rd place. This made Viktor Sanejew the only athlete to win his title 1968 could defend. On October 17, 1972, exactly four years after the victory in Mexico City, Viktor Saneyev set a new world record with 17.44 m in his hometown of Sukhumi. This performance should remain his best.

1973-1977

Saneyev's tenth place at the European Indoor Championships in 1974 didn't mean much to expect for the summer season either, but the form came back. At the European Championships in 1974 Sanejew jumped 17.23 m to gold, he had 55 centimeters ahead of the second-placed Romanian Carol Corbu . From 1975 to 1977 Saneyev won the title of European indoor champion three times.

At the 1976 Olympic Games , Saneyev was no longer necessarily the favorite, because the Brazilian João Carlos de Oliveira had increased the world record to 17.89 m in 1975 at the height of Mexico City. On the other hand, Saneyev had always been so competitive that he had to be counted among the favorites. Saneyev won his third gold with 17.29 m and eleven centimeters ahead of the American James Butts , de Oliveira came third.

1978-1980

At the European Championships in 1978 , Sanejew won silver with 16.93 m and one centimeter behind Miloš Srejović from Yugoslavia.

Before the 1980 Olympic Games , the big question was whether Saneyev would be able to achieve a fourth consecutive Olympic victory, which in athletics had previously only been achieved by discus thrower Al Oerter . Saneyev's best jump was 17.24 m. He was two centimeters ahead of world record holder de Oliveira and won silver behind teammate Jaak Uudmäe from Estonia, who was victorious with 17.35 m .

Awards

2013: Induction into the IAAF Hall of Fame

After the career

Viktor Saneyev is a trained sports teacher. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he moved to Sydney , where he works as a physical education teacher. His jump of 17.44 m was still a Georgian national record on December 31, 2006.

literature

• Manfred Holzhausen: world records and world record holder. Triple jump / pole vault. Grevenbroich 2002
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Fields Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )

Web links

• Viktor Sanejew in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ^ Winfried Kramer et al .: National Athletic Records for all Countries in the World . 2007 Bexbach