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| Born | (1936-11-16)16 November 1936 Sofiental, Cetatea Albă, Kingdom of Romania (now Sofiivka, Ukraine) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 7 November 1993(1993-11-07) (aged 56) Bucharest, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ihor Yevdokymovych Turchyn (Ukrainian: Ігор Євдокимович Турчин; 16 November 1936 – 7 November 1993) was a Ukrainian handball coach, who headed the Soviet and then Ukrainian national team from 1973 to 1993, bringing them to three Olympic and five world championship medals.
Biography
In 1959, Turchyn assembled a handball team of teenage girls, which in 1962 became HC Spartak Kyiv. The club became 20-time Soviet champion (1969–1988) and 13-time winner of the EHF Champions League (1970–1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985–1988).
In 1965, he married Zinaida Stolitenko, a trainee 10 years his junior. They had a daughter, Natalia (born 1971), and a son, Mikhail (born 1983). Natalia played handball alongside her mother for Spartak Kyiv, while Mikhail went into basketball. In his last years, Turchyn suffered several heart attacks. He underwent a complex bypass surgery in Norway, and after that coached the Norwegian women's handball team for eight months. He died of a heart attack during an EHF Cup match in Romania in 1993. After his death, his wife took over his coaching positions with Spartak Kyiv and the Ukrainian national team.
Awards
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1976, 1980)
- Order of the Badge of Honour (1971)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (1985)
References
- ^ Зинаида Турчина: О нас говорили, будто мы как собаки, которых с цепи спустили. fraza.ua (28 May 2009)
- Women Handball World Championship 1973 in Yugoslavia 08-15.12 Champion Yugoslavia,
Women Handball World Championship 1975 Soviet Union 03-13.12 Winner East Germany,
Women Handball World Championship 1978 in Czechoslovakia 30.11–10.12 Champion East Germany. todor66.com - A – Indoor/en salle/Halle – 1982 – HUN,
A – Indoor/en salle/Halle – 1986 – NED. International Handball Federation - Турчина: «Мне нечего скрывать»
- Истоки. spartak.kiev.ua
- ^ Я ПРОЖИЛА ЗА ТУРЧИНЫМ, КАК ЗА ЗОЛОТОЙ СТЕНОЙ. segodnya.ua (21 December 2000)
- Девочки не хотели, чтобы я выходила замуж. gazeta.ua (25 February 2007)
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Categories:- 1936 births
- 1993 deaths
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Ukrainian handball coaches
- Soviet handball coaches
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Handball coaches of international teams
- People from Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
- Sportspeople from Odesa Oblast
- Sportspeople from Kyiv
- Ukrainian men's basketball players
- Soviet men's basketball players
- Coaches at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Coaches at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Coaches at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen