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Yuri Yevlampiyevich Titov (Russian: Юрий Евлампиевич Титов; born 27 November 1935) is a former Russian gymnast, Olympic champion and four times world champion, who competed for the Soviet Union.[2] He won a total of nine Olympic medals from three Olympic games (1956, 1960 and 1964).[1][3]
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| Full name | Yuri Yevlampiyevich Titov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 November 1935 Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Burevestnik Kiev[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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]
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.
Titov won 14 medals at the European Gymnastics Championships.[7]
Titov was president of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) for 20 years, from 1977 to 1996.[2][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.[1]
He has written and published four books, among others, one about rhythmic gymnastics (with Nadejda Jastriembskaja).[9]
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.[2] He received the Order of Friendship of Peoples in 1976, and the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1957.[2]
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