Jauhen Missjulja

Jauhen Missjulja medal table
Walker
Soviet Union , Belarus
World championships
bronze	1991 Tokyo	20 km
bronze	1995 Gothenburg	20 km
European championships
silver	1994 Helsinki	20 km

Jauhen Missjulja ( Belarusian Яўген Місюля , Eng. Transcription Yauhen Misyulya , Russian Евгений Николаевич Мисюля - Yevgeny Nikolayevich Misjulja - Yevgeniy Misyulya * 13. March 1964 in Hrodna ) is a former Belarusian goers who especially on the 20-kilometer distance successfully was.

Starting for the Soviet Union, he finished 27th at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. At the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in 1991 , he won the bronze medal behind Maurizio Damilano and Mikhail Shchennikov .

At the World Athletics Championships in 1993 Missjulja - now under the Belarusian flag - reached fifth place. In 1994 he won the silver medal at the European Championships in Helsinki behind Mikhail Schchennikow and in front of Valentí Massana . He won his second medal at world championships in 1995 in Gothenburg , where he finished third behind Michele Didoni and Valentí Massana.

In 1996 he was ninth over 20 km at the Olympic Games in Atlanta . Exceptionally he started walking 50 km , but did not reach the goal. In 1997 he took sixth place both at the World Cup of Walkers in Poděbrady and at the World Championships in Athens .

Missjulja achieved further placings and the top ten later at the European Championships in Munich in 2002 and at the World Cup for walkers in Mézidon-Canon in the same year . In Athens in 2004 , at the age of 40, he took part in the Olympic Games for the fourth time and finished in 19th place.

Jauhen Missjulja is 1.77 m tall and weighed 68 kg at competition times. He is married to Natallja Missjulja , who was also successful as a walker.

Web links

• Yevgeniy Misyulya in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Yevgeniy Misyulya in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )