Yuri Kutenko
Jurij Kostjantynowytsch Kutenko ( Ukrainian Юрій Костянтинович Кутенко , English transcription Yuriy Kutenko; born July 8, 1932 in Luhansk ; † December 13, 2003 ) was a Ukrainian decathlete who competed for the Soviet Union .
In 1954 he was fourth at the European Athletics Championships in Bern , and in 1956 he gave up at the Olympic Games in Melbourne after the ninth discipline.
In 1957 he won the World Festival of Youth and Students . At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , he came fourth.
In 1961 he became Soviet champion. On September 6, 1961, he set a European record in Kiev with 8361 points.
Web links
- Jurij Kutenko in the database of trackfield.brinkster.net (English)
- Jurij Kutenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Kutenko, Yuri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Кутенко, Юрій Костянтинович (Ukrainian); Kutenko, Yuriy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet-Ukrainian decathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luhansk , Soviet Union |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 2003 |