Galina Chistjakova

Galina Chistjakova
Full name	Galina Valentinovna Chistyakova-Beskrownaya
nation	Soviet Union , Russia , Slovakia
birthday	July 26, 1962
place of birth	Ismajil ,  Soviet Union
size	169 cm
Weight	53 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump , triple jump
Best performance	7.52 m (long jump) 14.76 m (triple jump)
society	CSKA
Trainer	Vyacheslav Sokolov
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 1 × 0 × 0 × Indoor European Championships 4 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Seoul 1988 Long jump European championships silver Stuttgart 1986 Long jump Indoor world championships gold Budapest 1989 Long jump European Indoor Championships gold Athens 1985 Long jump gold Hague 1989 Long jump gold Glasgow 1990 Long jump gold Glasgow 1990 Triple jump

Galina Valentinovna Tschistjakowa-Beskrownajá ( Russian Галина Валентиновна Чистякова ;. English transcription Galina Chistyakova ; Slovak Galina Čisťakovová * 26. July 1962 in Izmail , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former track and field athlete in the disciplines of long jump and triple jump as well as current world record holder in the long jump ( As of June 26, 2020), which started first for the Soviet Union, then for Russia and finally for Slovakia .

She won silver at the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart and bronze at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul for the Soviet team. In 1988 she was the first woman to jump over 7.52 meters (7.52 m) in Leningrad and still holds the world record with this distance. After a knee operation in 1990, she could not find her old top form, but in 1995 she achieved success in the triple jump (14.76 meters in Lucerne).

She has lived in Bratislava with her family since 1996 , acquired Slovak citizenship and then competed in the triple jump for Slovakia in the Olympic Games in Atlanta . She is the national triple jump record holder in Slovakia.

With a height of 1.69 m, she had a competition weight of 53 kg. She is married to the former Soviet long jumper Alexander Beskrowny . The couple have a daughter Irina (born 1982) and a grandson.

Personal best

• Long jump: 7.52 m - 1988, Leningrad (world record)
• Triple jump: 14.76 m - 1995, Lucerne

Web links

• Galina Tschistjakowa in the database of World Athletics (English)
• NDR portrait of Galina Tschistjakowa ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Galina Tschistjakowa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )