Viktor Walentinowitsch Tschistjakow

Wiktor Walentinowitsch Tschistjakow ( Russian Виктор Валентинович Чистяков , English transcription Viktor Valentinovitch Chistyakov ; born February 9, 1975 in Moscow ) is a Russian pole vaulter who temporarily started under the name Viktor Chistiakov for Australia .

The 1994 junior world champion won bronze at the 1996 European Indoor Athletics Championships . At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 he was eliminated from the qualification.

In 1997 he emigrated to Australia with his then wife Tatiana Grigorieva , who was later also successful as a pole vaulter. Eligible to compete in his new home from 1999, he became Australian champion in the same year. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney he was fifth.

This was followed by a tenth place at the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, a sixth at the 2003 World Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham and an eleventh place at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis.

From 2007 he started again for Russia. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, he was tenth.

Viktor Chistjakov is 2.02 m tall and weighs 92 kg. He is the son of the hurdler Valentin Tschistjakow and the sprinter Natalja Pschonkina . His second marriage is to the middle-distance runner Anna Alminowa .

Web links

• Viktor Chistiakov in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Viktor Walentinowitsch Tschistjakow in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
• Viktor Chistiakov in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )