Leonid Anatolyevich Voloshin

Leonid Anatolievich Voloshin ( Russian Леонид Анатольевич Волошин ., English transcription Leonid Voloshin * thirtieth March 1966 in Ordzhonikidze ) is a retired Russian athlete , who until 1991 for the Soviet Union and in 1992 for the CIS took and 1990 European champion in the triple jump was.

At the Junior European Championships in 1985, Voloshin was fourth in the long jump with 7.79 meters . In 1988 he won the Soviet Championship with his personal best of 8.46 meters and was eighth at the Olympic Games in Seoul with 7.89 meters .

In 1990 he switched to the triple jump and started with a distance of 17.40 meters. At the European Championships in Split in 1990 , he improved this length to 17.59 meters in qualifying. In the final he climbed to 17.74 meters and was 31 centimeters ahead of defending champion and Olympic champion Christo Markow from Bulgaria in second place. Voloshin's team-mate Igor Lapschin came in third .

In Seville at the World Indoor Championships in 1991 Lapschin won with 17.31 meters ahead of Voloshin with 17.04 meters. In the open air season, Voloshin became the Soviet triple jump champion. At the World Championships in Tokyo he improved his personal best to 17.75 meters and won silver behind Kenny Harrison, three centimeters behind .

In 1992 Voloshin took part in the European Indoor Championships in Genoa for the CIS. He won with 17.35 meters and 17 centimeters ahead of the French Serge Hélan . At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Voloshin, fourth with 17.32 meters, missed the bronze medal by just four centimeters.

Starting in 1993 for Russia, Voloshin won silver again at the World Championships in Stuttgart with 17.65 meters, only Olympic champion Mike Conley Sr. was 21 centimeters ahead of him. On February 6, 1994, Voloshin set a new indoor world record in Grenoble with 17.77 meters. Four weeks later at the European Indoor Championships in Paris in 1994, Voloshin won with 17.44 ahead of Denis Kapustin . After Voloshin had not lost to a European in any major championships since the 1991 World Indoor Championships, he was the favorite for the European title in the 1994 outdoor season. However, due to injury, he could not qualify for the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki, where Kapustin won ahead of Hélan. Voloshin did not return to world class after several operations on the Achilles tendon.

His indoor world record was exceeded in 1997 by the Cuban Aliecer Urrutia with 17.83 meters by six centimeters. The Swede Christian Olsson discontinued this brand in 2004 and replaced Voloshin as an indoor European record holder.

Voloshin is 1.80 m tall and weighed 72 kg at competition times. He started for Dynamo Krasnodar.

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 1996. Surbiton 1996, ISBN 1-899807-01-2

Web links

• Leonid Voloshin in the database of World Athletics (English)