Gennadi Touretski

Gennadi Gennadiyevich Touretski (, 17 July 1949 – 7 August 2020)

Biography Touretski was born in Leningrad (now Saint-Petersburg), USSR, In Australia, besides Popov Touretski coached such stars as Michael Klim, Matthew Dunn, Ray Hass and Clementine Stoney, bringing them to Olympic and world cup medals. however, he lost most of his trainees except for Popov.

On 6 June 2002, Touretski became involved in a drunken brawl on a plane flying from Singapore to Sydney, and consequently fired by the AIS in July 2002. A similar incident occurred in 1995 when he was jailed for a month in Hawaii, where the plane had to make an emergency landing. In 2011, Touretski was decorated by the Russian Order of Friendship.