- Valeriy Brumel
Valeriy Brumel ( _ru. Валерий Николаевич Брумель) (
May 14 ,1942 in the village of Razvedki,Tynda District inAmur Oblast –January 26 ,2003 inMoscow Great Russian Encyclopedia (2006),Moscow : Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya Enciklopediya Publisher, vol. 4, p. 243] ) was a Soviet Olympic athlete.Biography
Brumel began going in for sports at age 12 in
Lugansk , coached by P. S. Shtein. At age 16 he cleared 2 m in thehigh jump . 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 the1960 Summer Olympics he scored the same result as the winnerRobert Shavlakadze , but made more attempts and won the silver. He broke the world record forhigh jump 6 times from 1961 to 1963 (from 2.23m to 2.28m). [cite web|title=Athletics - World Record progression|work=International Olympic Committee |url=http://www.olympic.org/common/asp/download_report.asp?file=en_report_88.pdf&id=88|accessdate=January 8|accessyear=2006] He won gold at the1964 Summer Olympics .After going undefeated during the 1965 season, Brumel injured his right leg 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.
Achievements
Olympic Games
*Silver medal, XVII
Olympic Games ,Rome (1960)
*Gold medal, XVIIIOlympic Games ,Tokyo (1964)Miscellaneous
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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, 1963References
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