Leonid Voloshin
Appearance
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Full name | Leonid Anatolyevich Voloshin |
Born | 30 March 1966 Ordzhonikidze, North Ossetian ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (age 58)
Leonid Anatolyevich Voloshin (Russian: Леонид Анатолъевич Волошин; born 30 March 1966 in Ordzhonikidze) is a retired triple jumper from Russia. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics.[1]
Career
[edit]Voloshin won the European Championships in 1990 as well as two European Indoor titles. He also won two World Championship silvers, in 1991 and 1993. In Tokyo 1991 he achieved a personal best jump of 17.75 metres, which puts him 18th in the all-time performers list.
In long jump he is ranked 22nd with a personal best jump of 8.46 metres (Russia national record until 2013 when Aleksandr Menkov jumped 8.56 m). He switched to triple jump in 1990.
Achievements
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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1988 | Olympic Games | Seoul, South Korea | 8th | Long jump | 7.89 m |
1990 | European Championships | Split, Yugoslavia | 1st | Triple jump | 17.74 m (wind: +0.8 m/s) |
1991 | World Indoor Championships | Seville, Spain | 2nd | Triple jump | 17.04 m |
World Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 2nd | Triple jump | 17.75 m PB | |
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1992 | European Indoor Championships | Genoa, Italy | 1st | Triple jump | 17.35 m |
Olympic Games | Barcelona, Spain | 4th | Triple jump | 17.32 m | |
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1993 | World Championships | Stuttgart, Germany | 2nd | Triple jump | 17.65 m |
1994 | European Indoor Championships | Paris, France | 1st | Triple jump | 17.44 m |
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Leonid Voloshin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
External links
[edit]- Leonid Voloshin at World Athletics
- Leonid Voloshin at European Athletics (archive)
- Leonid Voloshin at Olympics.com
- Leonid Voloshin at Olympic.org (archived)
- Leonid Voloshin at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Russian male triple jumpers
- Russian male long jumpers
- Soviet male long jumpers
- Soviet male triple jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union
- Olympic athletes for the Unified Team
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Sportspeople from Vladikavkaz
- Soviet Athletics Championships winners
- Soviet athletics biography stubs
- Russian athletics biography stubs