Jüri Tarmak
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| Olympic medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men’s athletics | |||
| Gold | 1972 Munich | High jump | |
Jüri Aaduvich Tarmak (Russian: Юри Аадувич Тармак) (born 21 July 1946) was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the high jump. He trained at Dynamo in Leningrad.
He competed for the USSR in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the high jump where he won the gold medal.
Tarmak was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor (1972).
| Olympic champions in men's high jump |
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| 1896: Ellery Clark | 1900: Irving Baxter | 1904: Samuel Jones | 1906: Cornelius Leahy | 1908: Harry Porter | 1912: Alma Richards | 1920: Richmond Landon | Harold Osborn | 1928: Robert King | 1932: Duncan McNaughton | 1936: Cornelius Johnson | 1948: John Winter | 1952: Walter Davis | 1956: Charles Dumas | 1960: Robert Shavlakadze | 1964: Valeriy Brumel | 1968: Dick Fosbury | 1972: Jüri Tarmak | 1976: Jacek Wszoła | 1980: Gerd Wessig | 1984: Dietmar Mögenburg | 1988: Gennadiy Avdeyenko | 1992: Javier Sotomayor | 1996: Charles Austin | 2000: Sergey Klyugin | 2004: Stefan Holm |
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