Valeriy Brumel

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Olympic medal record
Men's Athletics
Silver	Rome 1960	High Jump
Gold	Tokyo 1964	High Jump

Valeriy Brumel.

Valeriy Brumel, Russian Валерий Николаевич Брумель (April 14, 1942 – January 26, 2003) was a Soviet athlete who broke the world record for high jump 6 times from 1961 to 1963 (from 2.23m to 2.28m). He won a silver medal in the 1960 Olympics and gold in 1964.

After going undefeated during the 1965 season, Brumel was brutally injured in a motorcycle accident. Even after undergoing 29 operations, he could never get his career back on track, though he jumped 2.06 m in 1970.

[edit] Achievements

[edit] Olympic Games

Silver medal, XVII Olympic Games, Rome (1960)
Gold medal, XVIII Olympic Games, Tokyo (1964)

[edit] Miscellaneous

USSR Master of Sport, 1961
USSR Champion, 1961 and 1963
European champion, 1962

Olympic champions in men's high jump
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

Olympic champions in men's high jump