Yuriy Sedykh
Yuri Sedych (. Ukr. Юрій Сєдих, English transcription Yuriy Sedykh; Russian Юрий Георгиевич Седых, Yuri Georgijewitsch Sedych; born May 11, 1955 in Novocherkassk ) is a former Ukrainian athlete who - starting for the USSR - from the mid- 1970s to the early 1990s, one of the world's best hammer thrower was.
He won at Olympic Games, World and European Championships a total of eight medals, including six gold. He won at the Olympics in 1976 and 1980 and was second in the Olympic Games in 1988. Sedych improved the world record six times. His last world record, 86.74 m, situated on 30 August 1986 the European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, since is unmatched (as of November 8, 2013 ).
Sports career
His first encounter with hammer throwers he had twelve years ago when he wanted to bring back from the training ground of athletes his errant football. He asked one of the 4 -pound student - hammer - and flew together with the hammer throw from the ring. However, many more failures could not stop his youthful zeal, and so he came under the tutelage of coach Vladimir Ivanovich Wolowik finally to win the Soviet Junior Championship.
Then he enrolled at the Institute of Physical Culture in Kiev to be trained as a trainer. Head of the Teaching Department Athletics was the then still active Hammer Throw Olympic champion Anatoly Bondarchuk, was the Sedych previously met once before - during the preparation for the student Spartakiade 1972, which he won with a distance of 62.96 m. The skeptical Bondarchuk took only at the insistence of his colleagues of the narrow -shouldered young man - not realizing that he should be subject to him four years later in the Olympic competition.
Just one year later - in 1973 - could Sedych increase its previous best performance at six meters and won at the European Junior Championships his first gold medal. In 1975, he threw 73.30 meters and had thus reached a further intermediate goal - meeting the standard for the title of master of sports of international class. In Olympic 1976 Sedych threw at the International competitions for the prize of Pravda with 78.86 m -Soviet record. Shortly after him at the Soviet Championships in Kiev for the first time achieved a victory over the now 36-year Bondarchuk, who finished second in front of Alexei Spiridonov was. Thus occurred in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, the grand old man and two of his students against each other - and shared the medals among themselves.
There was a long dry spell, the Sedych exactly the right time could finish: At the Olympic Games in 1980 he won with a world record. At the achieved width of 81.70 m eleven years later, he still came in his last major victory at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo on ten centimeters approach - a testament to its exceptional power and constancy.
Even as a senior Sedych took part in competitions. On May 20, 2001 in Clermont, he threw 67.74 meters and was holder of the world record of the age class M45.
Private
Sedych was some years married to the sprinter Lyudmila Kondratjewa. Their daughter Oksana Kondratjewa (* 1985) is also Hammer Throw. Later he married the shot put Olympic champion from 1988 Natalja Lissowskaja, with whom he lived in France since the early 1990s. Their daughter Alexia Sedych (* 1993) will start for France also in the hammer throw and was internationally successful already in the youth and junior level.
Achievements
World Records
- 80.38 m on 16 May 1980 in Leselidse
- 80.64 m on 16 May 1980 in Leselidse
- 81.80 m on July 31, 1980 in Moscow
- 86.34 m on July 3, 1984 in Cork
- 86.66 m on June 22, 1986 in Tallinn
- 86.74 m on August 30, 1986 in Stuttgart
See also: List of World Records from 1971