| Ihor Turchyn | |
| Birth Date: | 1936 11, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Sofiental, Cetatea Albă, Kingdom of Romania (now Sofiivka, Ukraine) |
| Death Place: | Bucharest, Romania |
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Ihor Yevdokymovych Turchyn (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, Turchyn assembled a handball team of teenage girls, which in 1962 became HC Spartak Kyiv.[1] 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 his 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, Turchyn 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.