Oleg Tyurin

Oleg Grigoryevich Tyurin (Russian Олег Григорьевич Тюрин; born June 29, 1937 in Sinyavino, Leningrad Oblast, † March 3, 2010 in Saint Petersburg ) was a rower from the Soviet Union. He won 1964 Olympic gold medal in double sculls.

The victory at the European Championships in 1961 was the last major success of Yuri Tjukalow and Alexander Berkutow in the double sculls. The World Rowing Championships in 1962 for the first time represented Oleg Tyurin and Boris Dubrovsky the Soviet Union and won the silver medal behind the Frenchman René Duhamel and Bernard Monnereau. Tyurin and Dubrovsky each weighing only around 75 kilograms and thus corresponded rather Leichtgewichtsruderern. Nevertheless, the two won from 1963 to 1965 three Soviet titles. At the European Championships in 1963 they finished third behind the boats from Czechoslovakia with Vladimir Andrs and Pavel Hofman and from the United States with Seymour Cromwell and Donald Spero.

1964 won Tyurin and Dubrovsky the title at the European Championships in Amsterdam before the British boat and Melchior guarantor and Martin Studach from Switzerland. At the Olympic Games in 1964 and Cromwell Spero won the first, Tyurin / Dubrovsky the second and Andrs / Hofmann third lead. These three boats could also set themselves apart from the rest of the field in the final. The two rowers from CSKA Moscow won by just two and a half seconds ahead of the Americans, which in turn had a second ahead of the Czechs; ten seconds behind occupied guarantor and Studach fourth place. The following year, guarantor and Studach won at the European Championships in Duisburg before Tyurin and Dubrovsky. This was the last international medal for the two Soviet rowers.