Gennadiy Avdeyenko

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Medal record
Men’s Athletics
Olympic Games
Competitor for the  Soviet Union
Gold	1988 Seoul	High jump
World Championships
Competitor for the Soviet Union
Gold	1983 Helsinki	High jump
Silver	1987 Rome	High jump

Gennadiy Valentinovich Avdeyenko (Ukrainian: Геннадій Валентинович Авдєєнко) (born November 4, 1963 in Odessa) is a retired athlete who represented the USSR and later Ukraine. He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Odessa.^[1] 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.

Avdeyenko graduated from Odessa Polytechnic Institute and worked as an expert in refrigerating equipment.^[1]

[edit] Major achievements

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} (Russian) Great Olympic Encyclopedia, vol.1-2, Moscow:Olympia Press Publisher, 2006, entry on "Авдеенко", available online

[edit] External links

• IAAF profile for Gennadiy Avdeyenko

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