Valeriy Brumel, Soviet high jumper (died 2003)

Valeriy Brumel

Soviet high jumper (1942–2003)

Valeriy Nikolayevich Brumel was a Soviet-Russian high jumper. The 1964 Olympic champion and multiple world record holder, he is regarded as one of the greatest athletes ever to compete in the high jump. His international career was ended by a motorcycle crash in 1965.