Ihor Turchyn
Ukrainian handball coach
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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 team from 1973 to 1993,[1] bringing them to three Olympic and five world championship medals.[2][3]
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| Born | 16 November 1936 Sofiental, Cetatea Albă, Kingdom of Romania (now Sofiivka, Ukraine) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 7 November 1993 (aged 56) Bucharest, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1976, 1980)
- Order of the Badge of Honour (1971)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (1985)