GAJDOŠ A. SHORT HISTORICAL NOTES X
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SHORT HISTORICAL NOTES X
Anton Gajdoš, Bratislava, Slovakia
Ph.D. Anton Gajdoš born on 1.6.1940 in Dubriniči (today Ukraine) lives most of his life in Bratislava (ex TCH, nowadays SVK). He comes from gymnastics family (his brother Pavel have world championship medals) and he devoted his life to gymnastics. His last achievement is establishment of Narodna encyklopedia športu Slovenska (www.sportency.sk). Among his passion is collecting photos and signatures of gymnasts. As we tend to forget old champions and important gymnasts, judges and coaches, we decided to publish part of his archive under title Short historical notes. All information on these pages is from Anton's archives and collected through years.
Jurij Jevlampijevic Titov (27. November 1935, Omsk, Russia)
Jurij Titov started his international career at Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956. With team he won gold medal, in all around bronze medal, on horizontal bar bar silver and in vault bronze medal. Later he was attending also Olympic Games in Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964. He ended his international career as gymnast after World Championship in Dortmund in 1966. During his 10 years long career he won 9 olympic medals (one gold with team 1956), 10 medals at World Championships (4 times World champion: with team, all around, vault and rings) and 14 medals at Europena Championships (8 times European champion: all around, 2 times on vault and rings, pommel horse, parallel bars, horizontal bar). After gymnastics career he started career as judge and gymnastics official. At the FIG congress he was elected as FIG president and his presidency was from 1976 up to 1996. During his presidency China started to compete at international competitions and rhythmic gymnastics became part of Olympic Games program. Later he was president and vice president of Russian Gymnastics federation.
His medals at international competitions:
Olympic Games
1956 Melbourne: Gold: team; Silver: horizontal bar; Bronze: all around, vault 1960 Rome: Silver: team, floor exercise, Bronze: all around 1964 Tokyo: Silver: team, horizontal bar
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Figure left: from left Jurij Titov, Takashi Ono and Masao Takemoto - OG 1956 high bar. Jurij's the first international competition.
Figure bellow: from left J. Titov, V. Karasev, M. Voronin, B. Šahlin, S. Diomidov, V. Kerdemelidi, coach S. Litvinov. Jurij's the last international competition.
World Championship
1958 Moskva: Gold: team, vault, Bronze: all around, floor exercise, rings 1962 Praque: Gold: all around, rings, Silver: team 1966 Dortmund: Silver: team
Jurij Titov exercise on horizontal bar at OG 1964, (draw from Tadamiki Mori in Akitomo Kaneko (1970). Gymnastics Coaching Book II Horizontal Bar (Taisokyogi-Kyohon Tetsubo), FUMAIDO(Fumaido Shoten)) as it is in Anton's book of autographs.
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European Championship
1957 Paris: Gold: vault, Silver: all around, rings, Bronze: horizontal bar
1959 Kopenhagen: Gold: all around, pommel horse, vault, rings parallel bars, Silver:
horizontal bar, Bronze: floor exercise 1961 Luxemburg: Gold: rings, horizontal bar, Silver all around.
Passionate gymnasts during World Championship 2011. From left: Takashi Ono, Vera Časlavska, Abie Grossfeld and Jurij Titov (photo archive Abie Grossfeld)
Jurij Titov was for his work decorated with Olympic order by IOC in 1992, and important orders in Soviet union like Order of the Red Bannaer of Labour (twice, 1960 and 1980), Order of Friendship of Peoples (1976) and Order of the Badge of Honor (1957).
On the left telegraph from V. Putin, Russia president, wishen all the best for Jurij Titov 80th birthday.
Bellow Juri Titov signature.
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