US EditionWho Was Anatoliy Bondarchuk? Olympic Hammer Throw Legend and Gold Medalist Dies at 85
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Anatoly Bondarchuk was 85 years old. He won the gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Olympic champion of hammer throwing in 1972 and bronze medallist in Montreal, he still holds the world record of hammer throwing
Anatoly Bondartschuk is the first hammer thrower to break through a sound wall: the Ukrainian will become European champion in 1969 with the first 75-meter-litter, later he will win Olympic bronze and celebrate tremendous successes as a coach. Now the athletics legend died at the age of 85.
Former Olympic hammer throw champion and later coach Anatoly Bondarchuk died on Tuesday. He won the gold medal in the event at the 1972 Munich Olympics. He was 85 years old, reports the German news agency dpa.
Anatoly Bondarchuk, the hammer throw champion of the 1972 Munich Olympics, has died. He died in Kamloops, Canada, at the age of eighty-five. Bondarchuk, who was born in Ukraine, won the Olympic record of 75.50 meters for the Soviet Union in 1972, while he earned a bronze medal at the 1976 Five Rings Games. He triumphed at the European Championships in 1969 and won the national championship four times. The Munich throw: As a coach, he prepared th…
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