Background
Mankin, Valentin was born on August 19, 1938 in the village of Belokorovichi, Zhitomir Oblast’.
Mankin, Valentin was born on August 19, 1938 in the village of Belokorovichi, Zhitomir Oblast’.
Graduated from the Kiev Institute of Building Engineers, 1962.
Mankin was Jewish. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow at the age of 41 years with Aleksandr Muzychenko and entered the Star class. At the end of the eighties he moved to Italy, in Livorno, as technical director and coach of Italian Sailing Federation, where he trained top generation of sailors. in Livorno also founded Olimpic Training Centre dedicated to Beppe Croce (Olympic Sailor and President of Italian Sailing Federation). (Finn, Tempest and Star).
He died on June 1, 2014, in Viareggio, Italy.