Viktor Saneyev biography
Viktor Saneyev, (born October 3, 1945, Sukhumi, Georgia, U.S.S.R. [now Sokhumi, Georgia]), Soviet athlete who dominated the triple leap in the course of the late Sixties and ’70s. He gained 4 Olympic medals, together with three golds.
Saneyev was initially a excessive jumper, however a knee harm compelled him to modify to the lengthy and triple jumps; by 1963 he was concentrating on the triple leap. In a dramatic triple-jump competitors on the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968, Saneyev gained the gold medal with a world report leap of 17.39 metres (57 ft 0.67 inch). Aided by a tailwind and the excessive elevation of town, Saneyev and three different jumpers every superior the world report in the course of the competitors.
Saneyev gained the European championship within the triple leap in 1969. Jörg Drehmel of East Germany took the title from him in 1971, however Saneyev decisively beat Drehmel on the 1972 Olympics in Munich, West Germany, for an additional gold medal. Later that yr he made his biggest leap, 17.44 metres (57 ft 2 inches), setting one other world report. Brazilian jumper João Carlos de Oliveira broke that report in 1975, however on the 1976 Olympics in Montreal Saneyev got here from behind within the remaining spherical to win his third gold medal. His remaining Olympic medal, a silver, got here within the triple leap on the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.