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Valentyn Grigoryevich Mankin (Russian: Валентин Григорьевич Манкин; 19 August 1938 – 1 June 2014) was a Soviet/Ukrainian sailor from Kyiv, three times Olympic champion for the USSR team.

Valentin Mankin

Personal information
Nationality	Ukrainian
Born	(1938-08-19)19 August 1938 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	1 June 2014(2014-06-01) (aged 75) Viareggio, Italy
Sport
Sport	Sailing
Event(s)	Finn, Tempest class, Star class
Medal record Open Single Person Sailing 1968 Mexico City Finn class Open Two Person Sailing 1972 Munich Tempest class 1976 Montreal Tempest class 1980 Moscow Star class

Life

Mankin was Jewish.[1] He trained at VSS Vodnik and scored his first Olympic triumph at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, when he dominated his 35 opponents in the Finn class, finishing first or second in five of the seven races to win the gold medal.

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Mankin switched classes and teamed with Vitaly Dyrdyra to win the Tempest class. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal he added a silver with a new partner, Vladyslav Akimenko. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow at the age of 41 years with Aleksandr Muzychenko, he raced in the Star class. The contest went down to the final race, but Mankin pulled off the victory and won the Gold Medal.

At the end of the eighties he moved to Livorno, Italy, as technical director and coach of the Italian Sailing Federation, where he trained a top generation of sailors. In Livorno, he also founded the Olympic Training Centre, dedicated to Beppe Croce (Olympic Sailor and President of Italian Sailing Federation).

As of 2005^[update], Valentin Mankin remains the only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes. (Finn, Tempest and Star).[2]

He died on 1 June 2014 in Viareggio, Italy.

See also

• List of select Jews in sailing

Bibliography

V. V. Kukushkin (1978). Valentyn Mankin. Heroes of the Olympic Games (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. Archived from the original on 2007-10-25.

References

External links

• Valentin Mankin at the International Olympic Committee

На других языках

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- [en] Valentin Mankin

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[fr] Valentin Mankin

Valentin Mankin (né le 19 août 1938 et mort le 1er juin 2014 en Italie[1]) est un skipper ukrainien ayant concouru pour l'Union soviétique à quatre reprises aux Jeux olympiques. Aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1968, il participe à l'épreuve de finn et remporte le titre olympique. Aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1972, il remporte également le titre en participant à l'épreuve des tempest. Dans la même épreuve, lors des Jeux olympiques d'été de 1976, il remporte la médaille d'argent. Enfin, lors des Jeux olympiques d'été de 1980, il remporte à nouveau le titre olympique, cette fois-ci en participant à l'épreuve des star[2].

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[it] Valentin Mankin

Valentin Grigorevič Mankin (in russo: Валентин Григорьевич Манкин?; Kiev, 19 agosto 1938 – Viareggio, 1º giugno 2014) è stato un velista sovietico, dal 1992 ucraino, tre volte campione olimpico per l'Unione Sovietica.

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[ru] Манкин, Валентин Григорьевич

Валенти́н Григо́рьевич Ма́нкин (19 августа 1938, село Белокоровичи, Олевский район, Житомирская область — 1 июня 2014, Виареджо, Италия) — советский яхтсмен, трёхкратный олимпийский чемпион, первый в истории СССР чемпион мира по парусу, заслуженный мастер спорта СССР (1968), заслуженный тренер СССР, неоднократный чемпион СССР с 1959 по 1981 годы в различных классах яхт.

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