Andrei Alexandrowitsch Silnow

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Andrei Silnow

Andrei Alexandrowitsch Silnow ( Russian Андрей Александрович Сильнов ; English Andrey Silnov ; born September 9, 1984 in Shakhty , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian athlete who was 2008 Olympic champion in high jump .

Athletic career

Silnow jumped over 2.10 meters for the first time in 2002. In 2005 he was ninth at the U23 European Championships; also in 2005 he improved his personal best to 2.28 meters. In 2006 he was the first Russian champion with 2.28 meters. With 2.31 meters he won the European Cup.

At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006, Silnow mastered every height up to 2.36 m in the first attempt. He became European champion ahead of the Czech Tomáš Janků and the two Swedes Stefan Holm and Linus Thörnblad , who each jumped over 2.34 m. Then Silnow tried to set a new Russian record with 2.41 m, but it did not succeed.

At the sports festival in Monaco, Silnow jumped after the European Championships with 2.37 m, the world's best performance in 2006. In September he finished second behind Thörnblad at the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart with 2.33 m. A week later at the World Cup in Athens he was second behind Tomáš Janků with 2.24 m.

In Osaka at the 2007 World Championships , Silnow finished eleventh with 2.21 m after jumping 2.29 m in qualification.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing he reached a height of 2.36 m and thus won the competition and the gold medal. Then he failed three times at the height of 2.42 m, this height would have meant, in addition to the Olympic record, an improvement on Igor Paklin's Soviet record of 2.41 m from 1985. Four years later he could not repeat his Olympic success in London . In the final he was only twelfth with 2.25 m.

Silnow had a competition weight of 83 kg with a height of 1.98 m.

Doping charge

At the end of March 2020, the AIU independent integrity commission of the world athletics association World Athletics announced that it had initiated proceedings against Silnow based on evidence from the McLaren Report . The CAS International Court of Justice now has to decide on the case .

literature

Web link

Commons : Andrey Silnov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Top favorites do not stumble; Scrap strong eighth , HDsports.at, August 7, 2012
  2. ↑ Martin Neumann: Flash News of the Day - Doping proceedings against Olympic champions Silnov and Antyukh , notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, March 28, 2020, accessed March 29, 2020
  3. ↑ Two Russian Olympic champions in the doping pillory (March 28, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Silnow, Andrei Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Сильнов, Андрей Александрович (Russian); Silnov, Andrey (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian athlete
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Shakhty , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union