Vladimir Yumin

Vladimir Yumin

Yumin (center) at the 1974 World Championships
Personal information
Born	18 December 1951 Omsk, Russia[1]
Died	4 March 2016 (aged 64) Kaspiysk, Russia[2]
Height	160 cm (5 ft 3 in)
Sport
Sport	Freestyle wrestling
Club	Trud, Makhachkala [1]
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1976 Montreal 57 kg World Championships 1973 Tehran 52 kg 1974 Istanbul 57 kg 1975 Minsk 57 kg 1977 Lausanne 62 kg 1978 Mexico City 62 kg 1979 San Diego 62 kg European Championships 1975 Ludwigshafen 57 kg 1976 Leningrad 57 kg 1977 Bursa 62 kg

Vladimir Sergeyevich Yumin (Russian: Владимир Сергеевич Юмин; 18 December 1951 – 4 March 2016) was a Russian freestyle wrestler. He won an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and world titles in 1974, 1977, 1978 and 1979, placing second in 1975 and third in 1973. He was also European champion in 1975–77.^[3] Domestically, Yumin won Soviet titles in 1973–75 and 1978. He placed third at the 1980 Soviet Championships and did not qualify for the Olympics. After that he retired and worked as a wrestling coach with the Turkish national team. In 2009 he was inducted into the International Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Yumin was born in Omsk in Siberia, but soon moved to the south to Kaspiysk. He spent most of his life there, and died of a heart attack aged 64.^[2]

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