Alexander Alexandrovich Menkov

Alexander Menkow
Alexander Menkow at the 2013 World Championships
nation	Russia
birthday	7th December 1990 (age 29)
place of birth	Minusinsk ,  Soviet Union
size	178 cm
Weight	74 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	8.56 m
status	active
Medal table
World championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Indoor world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Junior European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships gold Moscow 2013 8.56 m  Indoor world championships bronze Istanbul 2012 8.22 m  European Indoor Championships gold Gothenburg 2013 8.31 m  U23 European Championships gold Ostrava 2011 8.08 m  Junior European Championships gold Novi Sad 2009 7.98 m
last change: August 19, 2013

Alexander Alexandrowitsch Menkow ( Russian Александр Александрович Меньков ; English Aleksandr Menkov ; born December 7, 1990 in Minussinsk ) is a Russian long jumper . At a height of 1.78 m, his competition weight is 74 kg.

Life

Alexander Menkow was a sports soldier . He studies at the State Pedagogical University in Krasnoyarsk .

successes

Marcos Chuva , Alexander Menkow and Guillaume Victorin at the U23 European Championships 2011 in Ostrava

Alexander Menkow won the 2009 Junior European Championships in Novi Sad with 7.98 m. At the Russian Indoor Championships in Moscow in 2011 , he was second with 7.88 m. He won the 2011 Grand Prix Meeting in Dakar as part of the IAAF World Challenge with 8.16 m ahead of Yahya Berrabah . In the Super League of the European Team Championship 2011 in Stockholm , he won the long jump competition with the championship record of 8.20 m in front of Michel Tornéus and Christopher Tomlinson . He won the U23 European Championships in Ostrava in 2011 with 8.08 m ahead of Marcos Chuva . At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu he reached the final and finished sixth there with 8.19 m in the second attempt. He then won the International Stadium Festival Berlin (ISTAF) with 8.15 m in front of the reigning world champion Dwight Phillips and at the Hanžeković Memorial as part of the IAAF World Challenge in Zagreb with 8.18 m. At the World Indoor Championships in 2012 in Istanbul he received the bronze medal with 8.22 m in a competition that he had led up to the 5th jump, he won the 2013 European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg with 8.31 m. He won the 2013 World Championships in Moscow with 8.56 m. At the 2017 World Championships in London , he reached fourth place with 8.27 m.

Top performances

On September 7, 2012, he jumped a new personal best with 8.29 m when he won the final of the Diamond League in Brussels and also won the overall standings of the series. He improved his best on May 18, 2013 in his second place at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix to 8.31 m, in his victory at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene on May 31, 2013 to 8.39 m, in his silver medal at the Summer Universiade 2013 in Kazan on July 12, 2013 on 8.42 m and his world title on August 16, 2013 on 8.56 m. He is the new record holder of the Russian Athletics Association. The old record came from Leonid Voloshin with 8.46 m on July 5, 1988, so at the time of the RSFSR .

In the hall, his best distance is 8.31 m, which he jumped on March 3, 2013 with his gold medal at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg. In the triple jump his best distance is 15.20 m on July 25, 2009 in Cheboksary , in the high jump at 2.15 m from the Spartakiad on August 14, 2010 in Saransk .

Web links

Commons : Alexander Menkow  - Collection of Images

• Alexander Menkow in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Alexander Menkow on RusAthletics (English)
• Alexander Alexandrowitsch Menkow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Index card at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan (English, no longer online).
2. ↑ The 32 winners of the Diamond League 2012 . Report in the Westdeutsche Zeitung of September 8, 2012.