Mykola Avilov
Mykola Avilov ( English transcription Mykola Avilov; born August 6, 1948 in Odessa, then Soviet Union ) is a retired Ukrainian athlete who starting for the Soviet Union Olympic champion in the decathlon was.
Avilov visited the Детско - юношеская спортивная школа ( ДЮСШ ) № 5 ( Children and Youth Sports School # 5 ) in Odessa and initially played basketball. He fell to talent scouts and began in the sixth grade in addition to athletics. Although it had been predicted a career in basketball, he decided, after consultation with parents and coaches first for the high jump, he jumped over the age of 16 years already the 2 m. His coach Vladimir Kazman led him to connect with more fight after he had shown outstanding performance in the jumping events. 1966 Avilov was European Junior Champion in the long jump. He won his first decathlon in May 1967 in Kiev, scoring 7103 points.
Surprisingly, he qualified in 1968 for the Soviet Olympic team and finished at the Olympic Games in Mexico as the youngest participant in the competition in the decathlon in fourth place behind winner Bill Toomey and the two Germans Hans -Joachim Walde and Kurt bendlin. Fourth, he was also at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 in Athens.
After an injury he sustained in the European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, the continuation of his career seemed in danger. Nevertheless, in 1972 he was a Soviet champion, and was thus qualified for the Olympic Games in Munich. In this competition 33 decathlete went to the start. Avilov prevailed and won the gold medal before also starting for the Soviet Union Leonid Litvinenko and Poland Ryszard Katus. His performance of 8454 points - they consisted of 11,00 - 7.68 to 14.36 - 2.12 to 48.45 - 14.31 to 46.98 - 4.55 to 61.66 - 4:22, 82 - meant the world record and was improved only in August 1975 by Bruce Jenner. After scoring in force since 1985 are 8466 points and 55th place result in the eternal world leaderboard (as of December 2010). Also in 1975 and 1976, he secured the Soviet Championship. In his third Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976, he won another medal, when he finished with 8369 points in third place behind the Americans Bruce Jenner and the German Guido Kratschmer. In the qualifying competition for the 1980 Olympic Games, he scored on 21 June 1980 in Moscow with 8062 points (after new point account 8067 ) for the eleventh time over 8000 points. Since he could no longer qualify in fifth but for the Olympics, he finished his career with this decathlon.
Avilov is married to the former high jumper Walentyna Kozyr. The couple has two sons, who were born in the Olympic years 1972 and 1976. The award Honored Master of Sports, he received in 1972, as well as the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, he was awarded. He competed for Dynamo Odessa. During his athletic career, he graduated in 1974 to study at the Одесский государственный экономический университет ( Odessa State Economic University ) as a lawyer from. After his playing career he became a coach and worked from 1991 in the Seychelles. Later returned to Ukraine back to Odessa, where he has been teaching since coach.
Best performance in the all around
- Decathlon: 8454 points, situated on 8 September 1972 in Munich ( 8466 points after scoring 1985 )
- 100 m: 10.95 sec
- Long Jump: 7.68 m
- Shot Put: 14.81 m
- High Jump: 2.14m
- 400 m: 48.16 sec
- 110m hurdles: 14.20 sec
- Discus throw: 48.74 m
- Pole Vault: 4.60m
- Javelin: 67.14 m
- 1,500 m: 4:22:82 min
- Heptathlon: 5662 points, set up in 1979