Leonid Shcherbakov
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| Medal record | |||
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Competitor for  Soviet Union |
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Silver | Helsinki 1952 | Triple Jump | |
| European Championships | |||
| Gold | Bern 1954 | Triple Jump | |
Leonid Shcherbakov (Russian: Леонид Щербаков) (born 7 April 1927) was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the triple jump. He trained at Dynamo in Moscow.
He competed for the USSR in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the triple jump where he won the silver medal. In 1953 he broke the World Record in the triple jump.[1] In 1987 he made the IAAF top 10 performers in the triple jump of all time.
[edit] References
- ^ Athletics - World Record progression. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on November 29, 2006.
[edit] External links
- (Russian) Biography
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