Wital Schuk

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Wital Schuk athletics
Full name Vital Michajlawitsch Schuk
nation BelarusBelarus Belarus
birthday 10th September 1996 (age 23)
place of birth Belarus
Career
discipline Decathlon
Best performance 8290 points
status active
Medal table
European championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
EAA logo European championships
bronze Berlin 2018 8290 points
last change: August 13, 2018

Wital Michajlawitsch Schuk ( Belarusian Віталь Міхайлавіч Жук ; English Vitaliy Zhuk ; born September 10, 1996 ) is a Belarusian decathlete .

Athletic career

Wital Schuk gained his first international experience at the 2015 European Junior Championships in Eskilstuna , Sweden , where he finished eighth with 7,315 points. Two years later he took part in the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz and was fourth there with 7921 points. At the European Championships in Berlin in 2018 , Schuk took bronze with a new record of 8,290 points behind the German Arthur Abele and the Russian Ilya Schkurenjow , who competed under a neutral flag.

In 2017 Schuk became the Belarusian decathlon champion and in 2018 the heptathlon indoor champion. On April 21, 2017, he married the Belarusian pole vaulter Iryna Schuk .

Personal best

  • Decathlon: 8290 points, August 8, 2018 in Berlin
    • Heptathlon (Halle): 5632 points, February 3, 2018 in Homel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. European Athletics Championships 2018 - Decathlon Men - Final Results. (PDF, 193 KB) In: europeanchampionships.com. August 8, 2018, accessed August 13, 2018 .