Staņislavs Olijars

Staņislavs Olijars (2007)

Staņislavs Olijars ( Russian Станислав Олияр ; born March 22, 1979 in Chelyabinsk , Soviet Union ) is a Latvian athlete .

Already in the junior area, Olijars was very successful in the 110 meter hurdles . In 1997 he was second at the Junior European Championships in wind-assisted 13.74 s behind the Pole Tomasz Scigaszewski , in 1998 he won the Junior World Championships in 13.51 s and in 1999 he was second in 13.55 s at the U23 European Championships, again behind Scigaszewski .

At the European Indoor Championships in Ghent in 2000, he won over 60 meters hurdles in 7.50 seconds ahead of the British Tony Jarrett and Scigaszewski. After failing in the semifinals of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and an eighth place at the 2001 World Indoor Championships in Lisbon, Olijars only won a medal again at the 2002 European Indoor Championships in Vienna. Behind the British Colin Jackson and the local hero Elmar Lichtenegger he won bronze in 7.51 s. Outdoors at the European Championships in Munich , he won silver in 13.22 seconds behind Colin Jackson, who won his fourth consecutive European title.

In 7.62 s, Olijars was sixth at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2003 , but was eliminated from the World Championships in Paris-Saint-Denis due to injury in the run-up. 7.49 s were enough for him at the 2004 World Indoor Championships in Budapest only to fourth place. At the 2004 Olympic Games there was an exciting battle for places behind the new world record holder Liu Xiang from China. Terrence Trammell of the USA won silver in 13.18 s ahead of Cuban Anier García in 13.20 s. The Jamaican Maurice Wignall and Olijars as the best European followed in fourth and fifth place with 13.21 seconds each .

After a mixed year in 2005, Olijars was fourth at the 2006 World Indoor Championships in Moscow in 7.52 s, ex aequo with Maurice Wignall. At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 , Staņislavs Olijars won the title in 13.24 s, ahead of the German Thomas Blaschek in 13.46 s. This enabled Olijars to clearly underline his position as the best European in the hurdles sprint. He not only succeeded the serial winner Colin Jackson, but was also the first gold medalist at European Athletics Championships for Latvia since Jānis Daliņš had won while walking in 1934.

At a height of 1.90 m, his competition weight is 80 kg. He is trained by his mother Ludmila Olijare , who set a Latvian record in the 100 meter hurdles in 1989 with 12.90 s.

Personal best

• 60 m (hall): 6.70 s, February 7, 1998, Riga
• 100 m : 10.42 s, April 5, 2002, Germiston
• 200 m : 20.91 s, April 4, 2003, Pretoria
• 400 m : 46.66 s, May 10, 2000, Riga
• 60 m hurdles (hall): 7.49 s, February 13, 2002, Eaubonne
• 110 m hurdles: 13.08 s, July 1, 2003, Lausanne
• Long jump (hall): 7.94 s, January 5, 2000, Riga

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2006. The international Track and Field Annual. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2006, ISBN 1-899807-34-9 .

Web links

Commons : Staņislavs Olijars  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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