Valentyn Grigoryevich Mankin (russian: Валентин Григорьевич Манкин; 19 August 1938 – 1 June 2014) was a
Soviet
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Ukrainian sailor from
Kyiv
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, three times Olympic champion for the
USSR team.
Life
Mankin was
Jewish
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He trained at
VSS Vodnik and scored his first Olympic triumph at the
1968 Summer Olympics
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in
Mexico City
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, when he dominated his 35 opponents in the
Finn class, finishing first or second in five of the seven races to win the gold medal.
At the
1972 Summer Olympics
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in
Munich
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, Mankin switched classes and teamed with
Vitaly Dyrdyra to win the Tempest class. At the
1976 Summer Olympics
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in
Montreal
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he added a silver with a new partner,
Vladyslav Akimenko. At the
1980 Summer Olympics in
Moscow
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at the age of 41 years with
Aleksandr Muzychenko, he raced in the Star class. The contest went down to the final race, but Mankin pulled off the victory and won the Gold Medal.
At the end of the eighties he moved to Livorno, Italy, as technical director and coach of the Italian Sailing Federation, where he trained a top generation of sailors. In Livorno, he also founded the Olympic Training Centre, dedicated to Beppe Croce (Olympic Sailor and President of Italian Sailing Federation).
, Valentin Mankin remains the only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes. (Finn,
Tempest
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and
Star).
He died on 1 June 2014 in Viareggio, Italy.
See also
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List of select Jews in sailing
Bibliography
References
External links
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1938 births
2014 deaths
Ukrainian male sailors (sport)
Soviet male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors of the Soviet Union
Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
Jewish sailors (sport)
Soviet Jews
Jewish Ukrainian sportspeople
Sportspeople from Kyiv
Olympic medalists in sailing
Sailors at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Finn
Sailors at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Tempest
Sailors at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Tempest
Sailors at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Star
Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples