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| Full name | Yuri Yevlampiyevich Titov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1935-11-27) 27 November 1935 (age 89) Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Burevestnik Kiev | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yuri Yevlampiyevich Titov (Russian: Юрий Евлампиевич Титов; born 27 November 1935) is a former Russian gymnast, Olympic champion and four times world champion, who competed for the Soviet Union. He won a total of nine Olympic medals from three Olympic games (1956, 1960 and 1964).
Olympics
Titov competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where he won a gold medal in team combined exercises with the Soviet team (with Viktor Chukarin, Valentin Muratov, Boris Shakhlin, Albert Azaryan and Pavel Stolbov). He also won an individual silver medal in horizontal bar, and bronze medals in all-around and vault. He won silver and bronze medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, and two silver medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
World championships
Titov won gold medals in vault and team at the 1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Moscow, and bronze medals in all-around, floor exercise, rings and horizontal bar.
He won gold medals in all-around and rings at the 1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Prague, as well as a team silver medal.
European championships
Titov won 14 medals at the European Gymnastics Championships.
Later career
Titov was president of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) for 20 years, from 1977 to 1996. As the FIG President, he was also a member of International Olympic Committee in 1995–1996. He was president of the Russian Artistics Gymnastics Federation from 2004 until 2006 and then first vice president.
Writing
He has written and published four books, among others, one about rhythmic gymnastics (with Nadejda Jastriembskaja).
Awards
Titov received the Olympic Order from the International Olympic Committee in 1992. He was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1999.
He received the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1960, and again in 1980. He received the Order of Friendship of Peoples in 1976, and the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1957.
See also
References
- ^ "Yury Titov". Sports Reference. 1 March 2020. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- ^ "Юрий Титов / Yuriy Titov". Peoples. 29 April 2008. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- "Yuri Titov". Database Olympics. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- ^ "1956 Summer Olympics Melbourne, Australia". Database Olympics. Archived from the original on 1 May 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- "1960 Summer Olympics". Database Olympics. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- "1964 Summer Olympics". Database Olympics. Archived from the original on 4 September 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ "Honored Inductees". International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 8 July 2007. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
- Duchoud, Danielle (22 December 2004). "Yuri Titov new President, Svetlana Khorkina Vice-President". European Gymnastics. Archived from the original on 18 August 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
- Nadejda Jastrjembskaia, Yuri Titov (1999). Rhythmic Gymnastics. Human Kinetics. ISBN 0-88011-710-9.
External links
- Yuri Titov at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Yuri Titov at the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
- Yuri Titov at Olympics.com
- Yuri Titov at Olympedia
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| Preceded byArthur Gander | President of the International Gymnastics Federation 1977–1996 |
Succeeded byBruno Grandi |
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- 1935 births
- Living people
- Russian male artistic gymnasts
- Soviet male artistic gymnasts
- Olympic gymnasts for the Soviet Union
- Gymnasts at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Russian International Olympic Committee members
- Gymnasts from Omsk
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Summer World University Games medalists in gymnastics
- Presidents of the International Gymnastics Federation
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Medalists at the 1961 Summer Universiade
- European champions in gymnastics
- 20th-century Russian sportsmen