Valery Pidluschnyj

Valery Pidluschnyj ( Ukrainian Валерій Підлужний , Eng. Transcription Valeriy Pidluzhnyy, Russian Валерий Васильевич Подлужный , Valery Vasilyevich Podluschny, Valeriy Podluzhnyy * 22. August 1952 in Donetsk , Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Ukrainian long jumper , which for the Soviet Union took.

After he became Junior European Champion in the triple jump in 1970 with 16.25 m , Pidluschnyj became the best Soviet long jumper of the 1970s.

At the age of 18, he finished 11th at the European Indoor Championships in Sofia in 1971 with 7.54 m. Shortly before his 19th birthday, he jumped 7.68 m at the European Championships in Helsinki in 1971 and was tenth. The following year he finished ninth at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich after 7.91 m in qualification with 7.72 m. In 1973 he won the Universiade in Moscow with 8.15 m .

At the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg in 1974 , he finished fourth with 7.97 m. In the summer of the 1974 European Championships in Rome , he won the European title with a wind-assisted 8.12 m. But even with his second-best, regular jump of 8.10 m, he would have surpassed the Yugoslav Nenad Stekic , who received silver for 8.05 m.

In the 1976 Olympics, Pidluschnyj took second place at the European Indoor Championships in Munich with 7.79 m, behind the French Jacques Rousseau with 7.90 m. At the Olympic Games in Montreal Pidluschnyj jumped 7.88 m and was seventh.

After a sixth place with 7.89 m at the European Championships in 1978 in Prague , he won at the European Indoor Championships 1979 in Vienna with 7.86 m silver behind his teammate Vladimir Zepeljow with 7.88 m. In the same year he won the Universiade in Mexico City with 8.16 m and was fourth at the World Cup in Athletics in Montreal .

His personal best of 8.18 m reached Pidluschnyj in the long jump final at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . He won bronze behind the two GDR jumpers Lutz Dombrowski with 8.54 m and Frank Paschek with 8.21 m.

Valery Pidluschnyj was the Soviet long jump champion from 1973 to 1977 and 1979. In 1973 and 1974 Pidluschnyj was world best of the year.

With a height of 1.75 m, his competition weight was 68 kg.

Personal best

• Long jump: 8.18 m, July 28, 1980, Moscow
  • Hall: 8.12 m, February 16, 1980, Moscow

literature

• ATFS (Ed.): USSR Athletics Statistics. London 1988
• 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

• Valeriy Podluzhniy in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Valery Pidluschnyj in the database of trackfield.brinkster.net (English)
• Valeriy Pidluzhniy in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )