Yuriy Eduardovich Dumchev (russian: Юрий Эдуардович Думчев; 5 August 1958 – 10 February 2016) was a Russian

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete for the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

, who set the

world record A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organization ...

in the men's

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

on 29 May 1983 with a distance of 71.86 metres. He was born in

Rossosh Rossosh (russian: Россошь) is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities *Rossosh, Rossoshansky District, Voronezh Oblast, a town in Rossoshansky District of Voronezh Oblast ...

. That mark, surpassed by current record-holder

Jürgen Schult Jürgen Schult (, ; born 11 May 1960) is a German former track and field athlete and, as of September 2021, the world record holder in the discus. Dating from 1986, this is the longest-standing record in men's track and field. Schult represent ...

in July 1986, is still the world record. A 1980 Olympian, Dumchev also represented the Soviet Union at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

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, South Korea, finishing in fourth place (66.42 m). Since 1979, he acted in films (more than 50 films). Dumchev died in Adler,

Sochi Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in ...

on 10 February 2016, aged 57.Многократный чемпион и рекордсмен СССР легкоатлет Юрий Думчев скончался на 58-м году жизни
// ТАСС, 10 февраля 2016

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* * * 1958 births 2016 deaths People from Rossoshansky District Soviet male discus throwers Russian male discus throwers Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Soviet male actors Russian male actors Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery Friendship Games medalists in athletics Sportspeople from Voronezh Oblast {{Russia-athletics-bio-stub