Vasily Viktorovich Sidorenko

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Wassili Viktorowitsch Sidorenko medal table

Hammer throw

Russia
World championships
bronze 1997 Athens Hammer throw
European championships
gold 1994 Helsinki Hammer throw

Wassili Wiktorowitsch Sidorenko ( Russian Василий Викторович Сидоренко , English transcription Vasiliy Sidorenko ; born May 1, 1961 in Stalingrad ) is a former Russian athlete . He was the European hammer throw champion in 1994 .

Sidorenko was third in the 1985 Soviet championships. In the same year he exceeded the 80-meter mark for the first time with 80.40 m. Because of the great competition Sidorenko was not used internationally until the end of the Soviet Union. Up to and including 1992, only three hammer throwers from the Soviet Union were allowed to start. At the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart , six throwers from the former USSR took the first seven places. Sidorenko was fifth with 78.86 m in front of two other Russians. At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 1994 threw except for the world champion Abduwalijew, who competed for Tajikistanthe same throwers as in the 1993 World Championships. With 81.10 m, Sidorenko won ahead of Belarusian Ihar Astapkowitsch and German Heinz Weis .

In 1996 at the Olympic Games in Atlanta Sidorenko qualified with 76.64 m for the final. There he finished twelfth and last place with 74.68 m. At the 1997 World Championships in Athens , Sidorenko took the lead in the third round of the finals , but was replaced by Heinz Weis in the fourth round. In the fifth lap Sidorenko rose to 80.76 m and was again in the lead, but was first surpassed in the last lap by the Ukrainian Andrij Skwaruk before Heinz Weis became world champion with his last throw.

Sidorenko threw over the 80-meter mark every year from 1985 and 2001 with the exception of 1991, 1996 and 1999. In 1992, 1997 and 2000 Sidorenko became the Russian champion. His best performance is 82.54 m, thrown on May 13, 1992 in Krasnodar . In 2001 Sidorenko set a world record with 80.03 m in the senior class for over 40s, this record was exceeded in 2003 by Ihar Astapkowitsch, who was two years his junior. With a height of 1.87 m, Sidorenko's competition weight was 110 kg.

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