Gennadiy Avdeyenko
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Medal record | |||
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Categories: 1963 births | Athletes at the 1988 Summer Olympics | High jumpers | Living people | Soviet athletes | Ukrainian athletes | Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union | Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union | People from Odessa | Ukrainian athletics biography stubs | Soviet athletics biography stubs