Grigory Yegorov

Grigory Egorov medal table
Pole vaulter
Soviet Union , Kazakhstan
Olympic Summer Games
bronze	1988 Seoul	5.80 m
World championships
silver	1993 Stuttgart	5.90 m
Indoor world championships
silver	1989 Budapest	5.80 m
silver	1993 Toronto	5.80 m
European championships
silver	1990 split	5.75 m
European Indoor Championships
gold	1989 The Hague	5.75 m
silver	1990 Glasgow	5.75 m
Asian Games
gold	2002 Busan	5.40 m
silver	1994 Hiroshima	5.50 m
Asian Championships
bronze	2002 Colombo	5.20 m

Grigori Alexandrowitsch Jegorow ( Russian Григорий Александрович Егоров , English transcription Grigoriy Aleksandrovich Yegorov ; born January 12, 1967 in Schymkent ) is a former Kazakh pole vaulter .

He celebrated his most important international success - starting for the Soviet Union - at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul . By winning the bronze medal, he completed the Soviet triple triumph in the pole vault behind Serhiy Bubka and Radion Gataullin . The three-time Soviet champion Jegorow (open air: 1988, 1990; Halle: 1990) was always overshadowed by his two more successful colleagues.

In 1989, Jegorow was European indoor champion in The Hague . In the same year he finished second behind Gataullin at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Budapest . The same result was achieved at the European Athletics Championships in 1990 (indoor and outdoor).

After the end of the Soviet Union, Yegorov competed internationally for Kazakhstan. At the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Toronto in 1993 , he was second again behind Radion Gataullin, who now started for Russia . In the same year he was defeated in Stuttgart at the World Championships outdoors by a former teammate , Serhij Bubka , who is now playing for Ukraine . After all, Jegorow managed a personal best in the competition with a jumped height of 5.90 m and, curiously, also an Asian record. With the independence of Kazakhstan, Yegorov fell under the jurisdiction of the Asian Athletics Federation .

The former European Championship participant won his first medal at an Asian sporting event at the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima , where he came second behind his compatriot Igor Potapovich . This was followed by several mixed years for Jegorow before he made an international appearance for the last time in 2002. He won the Asian Games in Busan and was third in the Asian Athletics Championships in Colombo . In 2004, sixteen years after his first participation in the Olympics, he started again at the Olympic Games in Athens . Here, however, he failed without a valid attempt in qualification.

Grigori Jegorow is 1.84 m tall and had a competition weight of 75 kg.

Top performances

• Pole vault (open air): 5.90 m, August 19, 1993, Stuttgart
• Pole vault (indoor): 5.90 m, March 11, 1990, Yokohama

Web links

• Grigori Yegorov in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Grigori Jegorow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )