Valeriy Brumel
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's Athletics | |||
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| Silver | Rome 1960 | High Jump | |
| Gold | Tokyo 1964 | High Jump | |
Valeriy Brumel (Russian: Валерий Николаевич Брумель) (May 14, 1942 in the village of Razvedki, Tyndinsky District, now in Amur Oblast – January 26, 2003 in Moscow[1]) was a Soviet Olympic athlete.
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[edit] Biography
Brumel began going in for sports at age 12 in Lugansk, coached by P. S. Shtein. At age 16 he jumped 2 m. Since the age of 17 he improved skills coached by V. M. Dyachkov in Moscow. In 1960 he broke the USSR record (2.17 m) and made the Olympic Team. At the 1960 Summer Olympics he scored the same result as the winner Robert Shavlakadze, but made more attempts and won the silver.[1] He broke the world record for high jump 6 times from 1961 to 1963 (from 2.23m to 2.28m).[2] He won gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
After going undefeated during the 1965 season, Brumel was injured his right leg badly 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
- Master of Sports of the USSR, 1961
- USSR Champion, 1961 and 1963
- European champion, 1962
- ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year, 1963
[edit] References
- ^ a b Great Russian Encyclopedia (2006), Moscow: Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya Enciklopediya Publisher, vol. 4, p. 243
- ^ Athletics - World Record progression. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on January 8, 2006.
| 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 |
| Preceded by: John Thomas, 2.22m, 1960 |
High Jump World Record Holders Record Holder: |
Succeeded by: Ni Chih-Chin, 2.29m, 1970 |
Categories: 1942 births | 2003 deaths | High jumpers | Russian athletes | Soviet athletes | Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union | Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union | Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union | Athletes at the 1960 Summer Olympics | Athletes at the 1964 Summer Olympics | Burevestnik athletes
