Gennadiy Avdeyenko

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Medal record
Olympic Games
Men's Athletics
Gold	1988 Seoul	High Jump
World Championships
Gold	1983 Helsinki	High Jump
Silver	1987 Rome	High Jump

Gennadiy Avdeyenko (born November 4, 1963 in Odessa) is a retired athlete who represented USSR and later Ukraine. Competing in the high jump, he won the 1983 World Championships as well as a silver medal at the 1987 World Championships with a personal best of 2.38 metres. He was able to repeat this result at the 1988 Olympics, and won a gold medal.

[edit] Major achievements

Year	Tournament	Venue	Result	Extra
1983	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	1st	2.32 PB
1987	European Indoor Championships	Liévin, France	3rd
	World Indoor Championships	Indianapolis, United States	2nd
	World Championships	Rome, Italy	2nd	2.38 PB
1988	Summer Olympics	Seoul, South Korea	1st	2.38 equal PB

[edit] External links

• IAAF profile for Gennadiy Avdeyenko

Olympic champions in men's high jump

1896: Ellery Clark | 1900: Irving Baxter | 1904: Samuel Jones | 1906: Cornelius Leahy | 1908: Harry Porter | 1912: Alma Richards | 1920: Richmond Landon | Harold Osborn | 1928: Robert King | 1932: Duncan McNaughton | 1936: Cornelius Johnson | 1948: John Winter | 1952: Walter Davis | 1956: Charles Dumas | 1960: Robert Shavlakadze | 1964: Valeriy Brumel | 1968: Dick Fosbury | 1972: Jüri Tarmak | 1976: Jacek Wszoła | 1980: Gerd Wessig | 1984: Dietmar Mögenburg | 1988: Gennadiy Avdeyenko | 1992: Javier Sotomayor | 1996: Charles Austin | 2000: Sergey Klyugin | 2004: Stefan Holm