Yuri Yevlampiyevich Titov (russian: Юрий Евлампиевич Титов; born 27 November 1935) is a former
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gymnast
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, Olympic champion and four times world champion, who competed for the
Soviet Union
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.
He won a total of nine Olympic medals from three Olympic games (1956, 1960 and 1964).
Olympics
Titov competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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in Melbourne
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where he won a gold medal in ''team combined exercises'' with the Soviet team (with Viktor Chukarin
Viktor Ivanovich Chukarin (russian: Виктор Иванович Чукарин, uk, Віктор Іванович Чукарін; 9 November 1921 – 25 August 1984) was a Soviet gymnast. He won eleven medals including seven gold medals at t ...
, Valentin Muratov
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, Boris Shakhlin
Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin (russian: Борис Анфиянович Шахлин; 27 January 1932 – 30 May 2008) was a Soviet gymnast who was the 1960 Olympic all-around champion and the 1958 all-around World Champion. He won a total of 13 ...
, Albert Azaryan
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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
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in Rome
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, and two silver medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics
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in Tokyo
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.
World championships
Titov won gold medals in ''vault'' and ''team'' at the 1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
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Medallists
Men's Results All-around
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in Moscow
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, 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
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in Prague
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, as well as a team silver medal.
European championships
Titov won 14 medals at the European Gymnastics Championships
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Later career
Titov was president of the International Gymnastics Federation
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(FIG) for 20 years, from 1977 to 1996.[ As the FIG President, he was also a member of ]International Olympic Committee
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in 1995–1996. He was president of the Russian Artistics Gymnastics Federation from 2004 until 2006 and then first vice president.[
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Writing
He has written and published four books, among others, one about rhythmic gymnastics
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(with Nadejda Jastriembskaja).
Awards
Titov received the Olympic Order
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from the International Olympic Committee
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in 1992.[ He was inducted into the ]International Gymnastics Hall of Fame The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, located in Oklahoma City, USA, is a hall of fame dedicated to honoring the achievements and contributions of the world's greatest competitors, coaches and authorities in artistic gymnastics.
The early IGHO ...
in 1999.[
He received the ]Order of the Red Banner of Labour
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in 1960, and again in 1980.[ He received the ]Order of Friendship of Peoples
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in 1976, and the Order of the Badge of Honor
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in 1957.[
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See also
*List of multiple Olympic medalists
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1935 births
Living people
Russian male artistic gymnasts
Soviet male artistic gymnasts
Olympic gymnasts of 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
International Olympic Committee members
Sportspeople 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
Universiade medalists in gymnastics
Presidents of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
Universiade silver medalists for the Soviet Union
Medalists at the 1961 Summer Universiade
European champions in gymnastics