Igor Ter-Ovanesyan

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Medal record
Men’s Athletics
Competitor for the Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Bronze	1960 Rome	Long Jump
Bronze	1964 Tokyo	Long Jump
European Championships
Gold	Stockholm 1958	Long Jump
Gold	Belgrade 1962	Long Jump
Silver	Budapest 1966	Long Jump
Gold	Athens 1969	Long Jump
Silver	Helsinki 1971	Long Jump

Igor Aramovich Ter-Ovanesyan (Russian: Игорь Арамович Тер-Ованесян, born May 19, 1938 in Kiev) is a Russian athlete of Armenian origin, and Olympic medalist in the long jump for the USSR.

Ter-Ovanesyan trained at Burevestnik, first in Kiev, later in Lviv and then in Moscow. He participated in the Olympic Games five times (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972) and twice won a bronze medal (in 1960 and 1964). He also repeatedly took medals at the European Championships: golden in 1958, 1962 and 1969, silver in 1966 and 1971.

Igor Ter-Ovanesyan beat the world record on two occasions:

8.31 metres on 10 July 1962 in Yerevan
8.35 metres on 19 October 1967 in Mexico City

At that time he was competing for the world champion title with the American long jumper Ralph Boston.

After retiring from his active career, he became a coach of the Soviet national long jumpers' squad. He currently coaches Ineta Radeviča among others. ^[1]

1 Successes
- 1.1 Olympics
- 1.2 European championships
2 References

[edit] Successes

[edit] Olympics

1960 Rome: Bronze with 8,04 m behind Ralph Boston with 8,12 m and Bo Roberson with 8,11 m.
1964 Tokyo: Bronze with 7,99 m behind Great Britain's Lynn Davies with 8,07 m and Ralph Boston with 8,03 m
1968 Mexico: Fourth with 8,12 m behind Bob Beamon with 8,90 m, Klaus Beer (GDR) with 8,19 m and Ralph Boston with 8,16 m.

[edit] European championships

1958 Stockholm: Gold with 7,81 m before Kazimierz Kropidłowski with 7,67 m and Henryk Grabowski with 7,51 m .
1962 Belgrade: Gold with 8,19 m before Rainer Stenius and Pentti Eskola, both with 7,85 m
1966 Budapest: Silver with 7,88 m behind Lynn Davies with 7,98 m and before Jean Cochard with 7,88 m
1969 Athens: Gold with 8,17 m before Lynn Davies with 8,07 m and Tõnu Lepik with 8,04 m
1971 Helsinki: Silver with 7,91 m behind Max Klauss with 7,92 m and before Stanisław Szundrowicz with 7,87 m

[edit] References

^ Dolgopolov, Nickolai; Rostislav Orlov. "Jumpers fly high at Moscow ‘Christmas Cup’", IAAF, 14 January 2007. Retrieved on 2007-01-16.

Records
Preceded by Ralph Boston	Men's Long Jump World Record Holder June 10, 1962 – September 12, 1964	Succeeded by Ralph Boston
Preceded by Ralph Boston	Men's Long Jump World Record Holder October 19, 1967 – October 18, 1968	Succeeded by Bob Beamon
Sporting positions
Preceded by Ralph Boston	Men's Long Jump Best Year Performance 1962	Succeeded by Ralph Boston
Preceded by Ralph Boston	Men's Long Jump Best Year Performance 1966 — 1967	Succeeded by Bob Beamon
Preceded by Bob Beamon	Men's Long Jump Best Year Performance alongside Waldemar Stepian 1969	Succeeded by Josef Schwarz