Igor Olegowitsch Lapschin

Igor Olegowitsch Lapschin medal table
Triple jumper
Soviet Union
Olympic games
silver	1988 Seoul	17.52 m
European championships
bronze	1990 split	17.34 m
Indoor world championships
gold	1991 Seville	17.31 m
European Indoor Championships
gold	1990 Glasgow	17.14 m

Igor Olegowitsch Lapschin ( Russian Игорь Олегович Лапшин ; born August 8, 1963 in Minsk ) is a former Belarusian athlete who was successful as a three-jumper for the Soviet Union .

He celebrated the most important success of his career at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul . There he won the silver medal behind Christo Markow (17.61 m) and in front of Alexander Kowalenko (17.42 m) with a width of 17.52 m .

In 1990 Lapschin won the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow . In the same year he finished in Split at the European Outdoor Championships in third place behind Leonid Woloschin and Christo Markow. In 1991 Lapschin was world indoor champion in Seville . It was his last major international success. He started again under the Belarusian flag at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart , but failed in qualifying.

Igor Lapschin is 1.88 m tall and had a competition weight of 71 kg.

Top performances

• Triple jump: 17.69 m, July 31, 1988, Minsk
• Triple jump (indoor): 17.31 m, March 10, 1991, Seville

Web links

• Igor Olegovich Lapshin in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Igor Olegowitsch Lapschin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )