2. Personal information:
Name: VALERY NIKOLAYEVICH BRUMEL
Male gender
6'1" (185 cm)
174 lbs (79 kg)
Date of birth: April 14, 1942 in Razvedki,
Amur, Russia
Date of death: January 26, 2003 in
Moscow, Russia
Personal record : High jump - 2.28
(1963).
Records du monde
Hauteur
2,23 m
2,24 m
2,25 m
2,26 m
2,27 m
2,28 m
Date
18 June 1961
16 July 1961
31 August 1961
22 July 1962
31 August 1962
21 July 1963
Lieu
Moscow
Moscow
Sofia
Palo Alto
Moscow
Moscow
Records d'Europe
Hauteur
2,17 m
Date
13 August
1960
Lieu
Moscow
2,18 m
17
September
1960
Odessa
2,19 m
9 October
1960
Lugansk
2,20 m
25
October
1960
Oujhorod
2,23 m
18 July
1961
Moscow
2,24 m
19 July
1961
Moscow
2,25 m
31 August
1961
Sofia
2,26 m
22 July
1962
Palo Alto
2,27 m
2,28 m
29
September Moscow
1962
21 July
1963
Moscow
3. Valery Nikolayevich Brumel born
May 14, 1942, Razvedki, Russia,
U.S.S.R.—died January 26,
2003, Moscow, Russia. Soviet
athlete who held the world record in
the high jump from 1961 to 1971.
Brumel was the son of a miner.
He began going in for sports at age
12 in Lugansk, coached by P. S.
Shtein.
4. At age 16 he cleared 2 meters
(6 ft 7 in) in the high jump,
using the then dominant
straight-leg straddle
technique. From the age of 17,
he improved his skills under
the coaching of V. M.
Dyachkov in Moscow.
5. In 1960 he broke the USSR record,
2.17 meters (7 ft 1 in), and made the
Olympic Team. At the 1960 Summer
Olympics, he scored the same result
as the winner Robert Shavlakadze but
made more attempts and won the
silver (2nd place).
6. He broke the world record for
the high jump six times from
1961 to 1963, from 2.23 metres
(7 ft 4 in) to 2.28 metres
(7 ft 6 in). He won gold medal at
the 1964 Summer Olympics.
7. After going undefeated during
the 1965 season, Brumel injured
his right leg in a motorcycle
accident. Even after undergoing
29 operations, he could never
get his career back on track,
though he jumped 2.06 meters
(6 ft 9 in) in 1970.
