Victor Saneyev Biography

The three -time Olympic champion Viktor Saneyev died, in what sport he performed, which was famous for the last attempt by Viktor Saneyev. In Australia, the ingenious Soviet athlete on January 3 died, Moscow time to share comments of the only three -time Olympic champion in the triple jump in the history of 76 years. Victor Saneyev was gone. The greatest athlete, which was famous for its last attempts.

He won three in a row of the Olympiad in the most severe discipline, and at 34 he did not have enough centimeters to take the fourth gold and leave the undefeated. Saneyev is a brilliant athlete whose strength of spirit is simply incredible. It is difficult to believe, but most of the major starts in which he participated, Viktor Danilovich won the last attempt.

Either the last in a row, or the last productive. And only at one Olympics everything went according to another scenario. Then he was inferior to Alexander Zolotarev. But already at the competitions, Saneyev showed simply phenomenal resistance. Then the level of competition in the sector was incredible, the struggle was waged at the level of world records. The highest bar was set by the Italian Giuseppe Gentile, who flew to 17.10 m in qualification - a new world achievement.

Materials on the topic of the last attempt in the final, in the first attempt, jumped by 17.22 m - an incredible achievement at that time. In his third attempt, Saneyev jumped the result of Gentile, flying away by 17.23 m. But even further the Brazilian Nelson Prudencio jumped - 17.27 m. It seemed that everything was already. The name of the champion and prize -winners is known, what can happen, who in such a battle of nerves and records will be able to maintain energy for another attempt, try to throw out everything that was prepared for?

Such an athlete was found. In the last attempt, Viktor Saneyev pushed about 15 cm to the plank and flew. His flight lasted an eternity, and when the judges announced the result, not everyone believed at once. Knockout from the first blow to the Olympics in Munich Saneyev rode the main favorite. Naturally, the Olympic champion could not be so. Moreover, Victor was only 26 years old - the heyday is time.

Although the results in the pre -Olympic season were not those that you can win at the main start. But at the Olympics, the Sanies, whom the rivals were afraid of and loved the fans, jumped. In the first attempt, Victor jumped 17.35 m.

A little closer than at the previous Olympics, but this result was enough to win a gold medal. Of all the rivals, Jorg Dremel from the GDR turned out to be the closest to the Soviet champion, who did not have four centimeters. Saneyev became a two -time Olympic champion, and a month later he set a new world record, with a oncoming wind in Sukhumi, flying away by 17.44 m.

The third gold and the last silver at the Olympics in Montreal Saneev became a three -time Olympic champion. This achievement in triple jumps has not yet been beaten. Perhaps this would be tried to do in Tokyo, American Christian Taylor, a phenomenal athlete who won gold in London and Rio de Janeiro, who climbed the highest stage at the world championships four times.

But Taylor did not fly to Japan due to the injury of Achilles of the tendon. Saneyev, on the other hand, pulled out the victory with a fifth attempt. He jumped by 17.29 m. This attempt became the last productive for the Soviet jump, since in the sixth he made a margin. They did not give Saneyev the fire of the games, as it was planned, as it was planned, at the last moment changing to the basketball player Sergey Belov.

And in the jump sector, he also could not become four times. Moreover, until the last jump was generally not clear whether the Sanevs would fall into the top 3 or not. In his last attempt, he flew 17.24 m, but it was only the second place. For any other jumper, this would be an excellent achievement, but not for Saneyev. Ahead at that time was a Jaak Uudmyae with a result of 17.35 m.

Yes, and the second jump of the Estonian was also further than that of Saneyev - 17.28 m. Materials on the topic “Everything swayed with politics”. The great champion of Saneyev was twice deceived at the Olympics in Moscow many years later Saneyev claimed that during the champion jump 17.35 m Uudmyae, he made a stake, but the judges closed their eyes to this.

In fact, even if so, Yaak’s second attempt was also on. And, if it is quite honest, one cannot help but remember how strange the judges behaved during the jumps of the Australian Jen Campbell and Brazilian Zhuan Oliveira, who were not counted by distant attempts, among which there would probably be a championship. The reasons for such decisions were simply ridiculous.