Igor Turchin (handball)
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16 November 1936 Sofievka, Ukraine |
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| Died | 7 November 1993 (aged 56) Bucharest, Romania |
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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, bringing them to three Olympic and five world championship medals.
In 1959 Turchin assembled a handball team out of teenage girls, which in 1962 became HC Spartak Kyiv. 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). In 1965 he married Zinaida Stolitenko, a trainee 10 years him 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. 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. 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.
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