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Eduard Vinokurov

Personal information
Birth name	Эдуард Теодорович Винокуров
Born	(1942-10-30)30 October 1942 Bayzhansay, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Died	10 February 2010(2010-02-10) (aged 67) St. Petersburg, Russia
Height	5-8.5 (174 cm)
Weight	165 lb (75 kg)
Sport
Country	Soviet Union
Sport	Fencing
Event	Sabre
Club	VS Leningrad, St. Petersburg
Medal record Men's fencing Representing  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1968 Mexico City Team sabre 1976 Montreal Team sabre 1972 Munich Team sabre

Eduard Teodorovich Vinokurov (Russian: Эдуард Теодорович Винокуров; October 30, 1942 – February 10, 2010) was a Soviet Russian Olympic champion and world champion sabre fencer.

Early and personal life

Vinokurov was born in the village of Baizhansai, South Kazakhstan Province, Kazakh SSR, and was Jewish. He attended and graduated from the Higher School of Trainers at the Leningrad Institute of Physical Culture in 1966.

Fencing career

Vinokurov began fencing in 1956. He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Leningrad.

He was the USSR sabre champion in 1966, and won three silver medals (1969, 1972, and 1973) and three bronze medals (1968, 1970, 1976). Vinokurov also won the Soviet Cup three times (1965, 1967, and 1972). Vinokurov won the European Cup in the team event five consecutive years, from 1967 to 1971.

Vinokurov was named an Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1968. After his competitive career, Vinokurov worked as a fencing coach in St. Petersburg and became an international fencing referee.

World Championships

A member of the USSR National sabre team since 1966, Vinokurov won the gold medal in the team competition at the World Fencing Championships in 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, and 1975, and also won silver medals at the World Championships in 1966 and 1973.

Olympic career

Vinokurov represented the Soviet Union in the team sabre event at the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Summer Olympics, winning 3 medals (gold medals in 1968 and 1976, and silver in 1972).

Hall of Fame

Vinokurov was inducted in 2007 into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

See also

• List of select Jewish fencers
• List of Jewish Olympic medalists

References

1. ВИНОКУРОВ Эдуард Теодорович - это... Что такое ВИНОКУРОВ Эдуард Теодорович?
2. (in Russian) Profile at the Russian Fencing Federation Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
3. Mayer, Paul Yogi (March 3, 2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: Sport : a Springboard for Minorities. Vallentine Mitchell. ISBN 9780853035169 – via Google Books.
4. Skolnik, Fred; Berenbaum, Michael (March 3, 2007). Encyclopaedia Judaica: Nat-Per. Macmillan Reference USA. ISBN 9780028659282 – via Google Books.
5. Assoulen, Philippe (January 1, 2009). Les champions juifs dans l'Histoire. Editions Imago. ISBN 9782849523834 – via Google Books.
6. Greenberg, Martin Harry (March 3, 1979). "The Jewish lists : physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews". New York : Schocken Books – via Internet Archive.
7. Panorama of the 1972 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. 1973. p. 116.
8. Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 538.
9. "Soviet Military Review". Krasnaya Zveda Publishing House. March 3, 1968 – via Google Books.
10. ^ "Eduard Vinokurov Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". April 18, 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
11. "Vinokurov, Eduard". Jews in Sports. Archived from the original on 5 December 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
12. "Olympics Statistics: Eduard Vinokurov". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-13. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
13. "Eduard Vinokurov Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
14. "Eduard Vinokurov". International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
15. "International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame selects seven". Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2018-06-11.

External links

• Eduard Vinokurov's biography at Jews in Sports
• Biography of Eduard Vinokurov (in Russian)
• Eduard Vinokurov's obituary (in Russian)

• 1942 births
• 2010 deaths
• Soviet male sabre fencers
• Russian male sabre fencers
• Kazakhstani male sabre fencers
• Jewish sabre fencers
• Olympic fencers for the Soviet Union
• Fencers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
• Fencers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
• Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
• Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
• Olympic medalists in fencing
• Jewish Russian sportspeople
• Jewish Kazakhstani sportspeople
• International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
• Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Burials at Bogoslovskoe Cemetery
• People from Turkistan Region
• 20th-century Russian sportsmen