Yuri Titov

Yuri Titov

Titov at the 1966 World Cup in Dortmund

Personal information

Full name

Yuri Yevlampiyevich Titov

Country represented

Soviet Union

Born

27 November 1935 (age 88)
Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Height

1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)

Weight

70 kg (154 lb)

Discipline

Men's artistic gymnastics

Club

Burevestnik Kiev^[1]

Retired

yes

Medal record

Olympic Games

	1956 Melbourne	Team
	1956 Melbourne	Horizontal bar
	1960 Rome	Floor exercises
	1960 Rome	Team
	1964 Tokyo	Horizontal bar
	1964 Tokyo	Team
	1956 Melbourne	Vault
	1956 Melbourne	All-around
	1960 Rome	All-around
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
	1958 Moscow	Vault
	1958 Moscow	Team
	1962 Prague	Rings
	1962 Prague	All-around
	1962 Prague	Team
	1958 Moscow	Floor exercise
	1958 Moscow	Rings
	1958 Moscow	Horizontal bar
	1958 Moscow	All-around

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.^[2] He won a total of nine Olympic medals from three Olympic games (1956, 1960 and 1964).^[1]^[3]

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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).^[4] He also won an individual silver medal in horizontal bar, and bronze medals in all-around and vault.^[4] He won silver and bronze medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome,^[5] and two silver medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.^[6]

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.^[7]

Later career

Titov was president of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) for 20 years, from 1977 to 1996.^[2]^[7] 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^[8] until 2006 and then first vice president.^[1]

Writing

He has written and published four books, among others, one about rhythmic gymnastics (with Nadejda Jastriembskaja).^[9]

Awards

Titov received the Olympic Order from the International Olympic Committee in 1992.^[7] He was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1999.^[7]

He received the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1960, and again in 1980.^[2] He received the Order of Friendship of Peoples in 1976, and the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1957.^[2]

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "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.
^ ^a ^b "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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "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.