Igor Turchin (handball)

Igor Yevdokimovich Turchin (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]

Igor Turchin
Personal information
Born(1936-11-16)16 November 1936
Sofievka, Ukraine
Died7 November 1993(1993-11-07) (aged 56)
Bucharest, Romania
Medal record
Coach for women's handball
 Soviet Union
Olympic Games
1976 Montreal Team
1980 Moscow Team
1988 Seoul Team
World Championship
1973 YugoslaviaTeam
1975 Soviet UnionTeam
1978 CzechoslovakiaTeam
1982 Hungary Team
1986 Netherlands Team

Biography

In 1959 Turchin 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 Turchin 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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