The pupil of the Ukrainian coach sensationally became the Olympic champion

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Thiago Braz da Silva, a Brazilian pole jumper and a graduate of a Ukrainian coach, sensationally became the Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro, beating the world record holder and Olympic champion 2012 of the Frenchman Renault Lavileni.

Three athletes reached the height of 5.85 and competed for medals. Lavillenie took 5.93 on the first attempt, and Brazilian Thiago Braz da Silva on the second. Sam Kendricks from the USA won the bronze medal at Rio 5.85 with a score of 2016.

Lavillenie then managed to take the height of 5.98. The Brazilian made a knight move and moved his attempts to 6.03. And on the second try I took it!

Lavillenny had the last attempt on 6.03, but he failed to take this height.

The Brazilian also went down in history as the first shestovik who overcame the height of 6 meters at the Olympics, writes X-Sport.

Vitaly Petrov and his ward Thiago Bras da Silva / Facebook Vyacheslav Kalinichenko

Vitaly Petrov is already 70, but he is still one of the leading athletics coaches in the world. Fame came to him in 1983, when his 19-year-old pupil Sergey Bubka won the world championship in Helsinki.

Petrov led the great Ukrainian jumper with a sixth up to the 1990 year. In 2003, another Petrov athlete - Italian Giuseppe Jibilisko - became a world champion in Paris.

But no fewer records shocked the sporting world the events of the fall-2005. Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva, at that time the 13 winner of world records in the open air, suddenly turned over to Petrov from Evgeny Trofimov.

During their collaboration, Elena managed to win the World Cup 2007, the Beijing Olympics, and bring the world record to 5,06. However, in the 2009 year, Isinbayeva started a streak of failures, and in 2011 she returned to Volgograd to the former mentor Trofimov, writes Sport-express.

After that, Petrov began to train 21-year-old Brazilian Thiago Braza da Silva, thanks to which he was the second in a season in Azerbaijan set a record for South America (5,92).

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