Legendary Ukrainian track and field athlete and coach, Olympic hammer throw champion Anatoliy Bondarchuk, whose protégé nearly killed a judge a few years ago, has died in Canada at the age of 85, the official website of the Ukrainian Athletics Federation reports.
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A native of Starokostyantyniv, now Khmelnytskyi Oblast, before winning the “gold” at the 1972 Munich Olympics with an Olympic record (75.50 m), he set two world records in 1969 – 74.68 m and 75.48 m.
In addition, Anatoly Bondarchuk won the “bronze” of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal (the “gold” then went to his student Yuri Sedykh), the 1969 European Championship, the bronze medal of Euro 1971, as well as four titles of champion of the Soviet Union (in 1969, 1970, 1972 and 1973).
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After completing his sports career, Bondarchuk worked as a coach for the USSR national team, training not only Olympic champion and world record holder Yuri Sedykh, but also Olympic medalist Yuri Tamm.
In the early 1990s, the specialist signed a three-year contract with the Portuguese club “Spooring”, where he trained track and field athletes and throwers, and then, until 2004, he worked under a contract in Kuwait. For the last two decades, Honored Coach of the USSR and Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences Anatoly Bondarchuk has lived in Kamloops, Canada, where, among others, he contributed to the upbringing of the most outstanding hammer thrower of our time – Olympic champion and two-time world champion Ethan Katzberg.
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Previously, “FACTS” reported that a Ukrainian Olympic champion who was married to an Olympic champion had died.
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