Yuri Titov

He won a total of nine Olympic medals from three Olympic games (1956, 1960 and 1964).

Yuri Titov
Titov at the 1966 World Cup in Dortmund
Personal information
Full name	Yuri Yevlampiyevich Titov
Country represented	Soviet Union
Born	(1935-11-27) 27 November 1935 (age 88) Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Club	Burevestnik Kiev
Retired	yes
Medal record Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne Team 1956 Melbourne Horizontal bar 1960 Rome Floor exercises 1960 Rome Team 1964 Tokyo Horizontal bar 1964 Tokyo Team 1956 Melbourne Vault 1956 Melbourne All-around 1960 Rome All-around World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 1958 Moscow Vault 1958 Moscow Team 1962 Prague Rings 1962 Prague All-around 1962 Prague Team 1958 Moscow Floor exercise 1958 Moscow Rings 1958 Moscow Horizontal bar 1958 Moscow All-around

 

Titov competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where he won a gold medal in team combined exercises with the Soviet team (with Viktor Chukarin, Valentin Muratov, Boris Shakhlin, Albert Azaryan and Pavel Stolbov). He also won an individual silver medal in horizontal bar, and bronze medals in all-around and vault. He won silver and bronze medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, and two silver medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Titov won gold medals in vault and team at the 1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Moscow, and bronze medals in all-around, floor exercise, rings and horizontal bar.

He won gold medals in all-around and rings at the 1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Prague, as well as a team silver medal.

Titov won 14 medals at the European Gymnastics Championships.

Titov was president of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) for 20 years, from 1977 to 1996. As the FIG President, he was also a member of International Olympic Committee in 1995–1996. He was president of the Russian Artistics Gymnastics Federation from 2004 until 2006 and then first vice president.

He has written and published four books, among others, one about rhythmic gymnastics (with Nadejda Jastriembskaja).

Titov received the Olympic Order from the International Olympic Committee in 1992. He was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1999.

He received the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1960, and again in 1980. He received the Order of Friendship of Peoples in 1976, and the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1957.

• List of multiple Olympic medalists