Roles | Competed in Olympic Games |
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Sex | Male |
Full name | Oleg Grigoryevich•Tyurin |
Used name | Oleg•Tyurin |
Original name | Олег Григорьевич•Тюрин |
Born | 29 June 1937 in Sinyavino, Leningrad (RUS) |
Died | 3 March 2010 in St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg (RUS) |
Measurements | 182 cm / 77 kg |
Affiliations | Trud Leningrad, St. Petersburg (RUS) |
NOC | Soviet Union |
Nationality | Russian Federation |
Medals | OG |
Gold | 1 |
Silver | 0 |
Bronze | 0 |
Total | 1 |
In addition to his Olympic gold, Oleg Tyurin won the 1964 European Championships, silvers at the 1962 World and 1965 European Championships, and a bronze at the 1963 Europeans, all with his partner Boris Dubrovsky in the double sculls. Tyurin was a member of the Trud Leningrad crew that won the Stewards’ Challenge Cup at the 1961 and 1962 Henley Royal Regatta. Domestically, Tyruin won four Soviet titles in 1963-65 and 1967, all in double sculls, and the first three with Dubrovsky. After his sporting career, Tyurin worked as a rowing coach in St. Petersburg.
Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | Nationality | As | |
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1964 Summer Olympics | Rowing | URS | RUS | Oleg Tyurin | |||
Double Sculls, Men (Olympic) | Boris Dubrovsky | 1 | Gold |