Rodion Aksanowitsch Gataullin

Rodion Aksanowitsch Gataullin ( Russian Родион Аксанович Гатауллин ; born November 23, 1965 in Tashkent , Uzbek SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian athlete of Tatar origin from Uzbekistan who competed for the Soviet Union until 1991. In 1992 he started for the Commonwealth of Independent States and from 1993 for Russia.

Together with the Ukrainian Serhij Bubka and the Russian Maxim Tarassow , Rodion Gataullin dominated the pole vault for over a decade . In 1989 Gataullin was the second pole vaulter after Bubka to jump the 6-meter mark.

Career

For the Soviet Union until 1991

After winning the Junior European Championships in 1983, Gataullin also won the Universiade in 1985. After a fifth place with 5.60 m at the European Indoor Championships Gataullin was at the World Championships 1987 in Rome with 5.80 m third behind Bubka and the French Thierry Vigneron . In the same year he finished second at the Universiade.

In 1988 Gataullin won the European Indoor Championships in Budapest with 5.75 m. At the Olympic Games in Seoul Bubka won with 5.90 m. With 5.85 m Gataullin won silver in front of the third representative of the Soviet Union Grigori Jegorow (5.80 m).

On February 4, 1989, Gataullin set his personal best at the Soviet Championships in Gomel with 6.02 m. As an indoor world record, the performance only lasted a week until Serhij Bubka jumped 6.03 m in Osaka. At the Indoor World Championships in 1989 in Budapest , Bubka was not at the start. Gataullin won with 5.85 m ahead of Jegorow with 5.80 m. In the outdoor season 1989 Gataullin won the Grand Prix classification in the pole vault, where he jumped 6.00 m at the end of the season on September 16 in Tokyo and was thus also the second 6-meter jumper outdoors.

At the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow in 1990, Gataullin jumped 5.80 m and won ahead of Jegorow and Vigneron. In the open air at the European Championships in Split in 1990 , Serhij Bubka returned after a long injury break, but was not yet in top form and only came in sixth. Rodion Gataullin won with 5.85 m ahead of Jegorow and the Austrian Hermann Fehringer . Gataullin then also won the Goodwill Games in 1990.

In 1991 Serhij Bubka was not only back, but also in great shape, so that Gataullin's two-year winning streak was over. At the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo , Bubka won with 5.95 m in front of the Hungarian István Bagyula (5.90 m) and Maxim Tarassow, who like Gataullin crossed 5.85 m in fourth, but won bronze because of fewer failed attempts.

In 1985, 1989 and 1991 Rodion Gataullin was the Soviet champion in pole vault.

For Russia from 1992

Despite a personal annual best of 5.95 m Gataullin could not qualify for the 1992 Olympic Games . Olympic champion was Tarasov before Igor Trandenkow , while Bubka had no valid attempt. At the indoor world championships in 1993 Gataullin won with 5.90 m before Jegorow. In contrast to the past, the two were no longer team-mates, because Yegorov competed for Kazakhstan, while Gataullin had chosen Russia after living and training in Saint Petersburg for years.

The 1994 European Championships took place in Helsinki. Rodion Gataullin jumped the championship record with 6.00 m and was able to successfully defend his title from 1990. At the World Championships in Gothenburg in 1995 , Gataulin was fifth again with 5.70 m.

Private

Rodion Gataullin is 1.89 m tall and weighed 79 kg at competition times. He had already moved to Leningrad (today's Saint Petersburg) during the Soviet Union and married Tatiana Reshetnikova there , who finished fourth in the 100-meter hurdles at the 1995 World Championships. Gataullin's younger brother Ruslan Gataullin was starting for Russia at the European Athletics Championships 2006 seventh in the long jump.

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 1997. Surbiton 1997, ISBN 1-899807-02-0
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )

Web links

• Rodion Aksanowitsch Gataullin in the database of World Athletics (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ site of Roza Galieva: Top Ten Most Prominent Tatars in the World