Yuri Titov

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Yuri Yevlampiyevich Titov (Template:Langx; born 27 November 1935) is a former Russian gymnast, Olympic champion and four times world champion, who competed for the Soviet Union.[1] He won a total of nine Olympic medals from three Olympic games (1956, 1960 and 1964).[2][3]

Olympics

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Titov at the 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).[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.[1][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.[2]

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.[1] He received the Order of Friendship of Peoples in 1976, and the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1957.[1]

See also

References

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Sporting positions
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