Ihor Turchyn

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 teams from 1973 to 1993,[1] bringing them to three Olympic and five world championship medals.[2][3]

Ihor Turchyn
Personal information
Born(1936-11-16)16 November 1936
Sofiental, Cetatea Albă, Kingdom of Romania (now Sofiivka, Ukraine)
Died7 November 1993(1993-11-07) (aged 56)
Bucharest, Romania
Medal record
Coach for women's handball
 Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1976 Montreal Team
Gold medal – first place 1980 Moscow Team
Bronze medal – third place 1988 Seoul Team
World Championship
Bronze medal – third place1973 YugoslaviaTeam
Silver medal – second place1975 Soviet UnionTeam
Silver medal – second place1978 CzechoslovakiaTeam
Gold medal – first place 1982 Hungary Team
Gold medal – first place 1986 Netherlands Team

Biography

In 1959, Turchyn assembled a handball team of teenage girls, which in 1962 became HC Spartak Kyiv.[4] 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).[1][5]

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.[6] 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.[6] 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.[1][7]

Awards

References
  1. Зинаида Турчина: О нас говорили, будто мы как собаки, которых с цепи спустили. fraza.ua (28 May 2009)
  2. 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
  3. A – Indoor/en salle/Halle – 1982 – HUN,
    A – Indoor/en salle/Halle – 1986 – NED. International Handball Federation
  4. Турчина: «Мне нечего скрывать»
  5. Истоки. spartak.kiev.ua
  6. Я ПРОЖИЛА ЗА ТУРЧИНЫМ, КАК ЗА ЗОЛОТОЙ СТЕНОЙ. segodnya.ua (21 December 2000)
  7. Девочки не хотели, чтобы я выходила замуж. gazeta.ua (25 February 2007)
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