Volodymyr Holubnychy

Volodymyr Holubnychy
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	2nd June 1936 (age 84)
place of birth	Sumy
size	178 cm
Weight	77 kg
Career
discipline	Go
society	Spartak Sumy
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 1 × 1 × European championships 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold Rome 1960 20 km walking bronze Tokyo 1964 20 km walking gold Mexico City 1968 20 km walking silver Munich 1972 20 km walking European championships bronze Belgrade 1962 20 km walking silver Budapest 1966 20 km walking gold Rome 1974 20 km walking

Volodymyr Stepanowytsch Holubnytschyj ( Ukrainian Володимир Степанович Голубничий ., English transcription Volodymyr Holubnychyy; also Russian Владимир Степанович Голубничий Vladimir Stepanovich Golubnitschi - Vladimir Golubnichiy ; * 2. June 1936 in Sumy , Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Ukrainian mountaineers , who for the Soviet Union starting Olympic champion has been.

Career

Holubnytschyj is an absolutely exceptional athlete in the 20 km athletics discipline , who has participated in five consecutive Olympic Games. At the European Championships he achieved bronze in Belgrade in 1962 , silver in Budapest in 1966 and gold in Rome in 1974 .

At his first Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , he immediately won the gold medal in front of the Australian Noel Freeman and the British Stan Vickers . During the following Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, he won bronze behind the British Ken Matthews and the German Dieter Lindner from the GDR. Despite the mountain air, he was in top form again at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, this time before the Mexican José Pedraza and Nikolai Smaga, who also started for the Soviet Union, to repeat his victory in 1960 .

At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, he won the silver medal, between the two GDR goers Peter Frenkel and Hans-Georg Reimann . Sixteen years after his first Olympic start, he finished seventh at the 1976 Montreal Games .

In 1960 he received the Soviet Order of the Red Banner of Labor and in 1969 the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union . In 2012 Holubnychy was inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame .

Web links

• Volodymyr Holubnytschyj in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )