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Robert Shavlakadze (Georgian: რობერტ შავლაყაძე; Russian: Роберт Михайлович Шавлакадзе, 1 April 1933 – 4 March 2020) was a Georgian high jumper. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in first and fifth place, respectively.
Alongside him was the prodigious 18-year-old Valery Brumel and 27-year-old Robert Shavlakadze. All four jumpers were in contention as the bar went above seven feet (2.13m), which was then considered the benchmark of great jumping. Brumel and Bolshov missed but Shavlakadze cleared with his first attempt.
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For several decades now, every elite high jumper has utilised the 'Fosbury Flop'. But there was a time, prior to the introduction of the revolutionary back layout in the late 1960s, when a variety of different techniques were in use. The 'Eastern Cut-Off' was a more sophisticated version of the basic 'Scissors' style, but that was largely supersede...
The record crept up a centimetre at a time until, at the 1960 US Olympic Trials, 19-year-old John Thomas improved all the way from 2.18m to 2.22m. The overwhelming favourite to win at the Rome Games, Thomas could manage only 2.14m in third place behind two Soviet athletes: Robert Shavlakadze from Georgia and the precocious Siberian-born Valeriy Bru...
The contrast between the training programmes of Brumel (1.85m tall, weighing 80kg) and Thomas (1.96m and 88kg) – was immense. Thomas would weight train just once a week and worked out for three or four days a week for nine months of the year. Under the revolutionary coaching methods of Dyachkov, Brumel would train for two hours every day the whole ...
Among his greatest admirers was Romania's queen of high jumping, Iolanda Balas, who said Brumel “has shown such perseverance in training and his calmness in competition is so astonishing that I shall not be surprised to hear that he has achieved a new record." That second record, 2.24m on 16 July, was again achieved at the Lenin Stadium ... only th...
That was the least of Brumel's worries, for in Moscow on 6 October 1965 he was involved in a serious road accident. He was riding pillion on a friend's motorbike when, rounding a sharp bend, it skidded out of control. He was flung off and the machine toppled across his right leg, resulting in multiple fractures. Amputation was considered but the do...
Robert Shavlakadze (he now bears the title of merited athlete of the U.S.S.R.) won the gold medal. I equaled his clearance of 7 feet 1 to take the silver medal. Thomas had...
Robert Shavlakadze ( Georgian: რობერტ შავლაყაძე, Russian: Роберт Михайлович Шавлакадзе; 1 April 1933 – 4 March 2020) was a Georgian high jumper. He was born in Tbilisi. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics. In 1960, he finished in first place, and ...
Jan 26, 2003 · As an 18-year-old, Brumel entered the 1960 Rome Olympics as a talented but relatively unknown athlete with a personal best of 2.17m. But he was only bettered by his Soviet team-mate, the Georgian Robert Shavlakadze, who took the gold with a first-time clearance and Olympic record of 2.16m.
Robert Shavlakadze (Georgian: რობერტ შავლაყაძე; Russian: Роберт Михайлович Шавлакадзе, 1 April 1933 – 4 March 2020) was a Georgian high jumper. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in first and fifth place, respectively. Read more on Wikipedia.
