Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Voronin

Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Voronin ( Russian Вячеслав Николаевич Воронин , born April 5, 1974 in Ordzhonikidze ) is a Russian athlete . With a height of 1.91 m, his competition weight is 78 kg.

In 1993 Vyacheslav Voronin was second in the high jump at the European Junior Championships. He won his first medal in the adult class in 1998 at the European Indoor Championships in Valencia, when he won silver with 2.31 m in the third attempt behind the Pole Artur Partyka , who had achieved this height in the second attempt.

In 1999 he won silver again, this time at the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi. At 2.36 m he jumped the same height as the winner, the Cuban Javier Sotomayor . Outdoors at the World Championships in Seville, he won gold with 2.37 m.

At the European Indoor Championships in Ghent in 2000 he jumped 2.34 m and won gold, because this time the rule of multiple attempts spoke in his favor against the German Martin Buss (silver) and the Serbian Dragutin Topić (bronze). After jumping the 2.40 m Russian record in London on August 5, 2000, he went to the Olympic Games in Sydney as the world's best of the year . There he was only tenth with 2.29 m, while his compatriot Sergej Kljugin was Olympic champion with 2.35 m.

Voronin also disappointed at the 2001 World Indoor Championships when he was only ninth. At the World Championships in Edmonton he was back at the front. Together with his compatriot Jaroslaw Rybakow he won silver with 2.33 m behind Martin Buß.

After two weaker years, Voronin only came back above the height of 2.30 m in 2004. In the most important competition of the year at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, however, he did not succeed, with 2.29 m he finished ninth. In 2005 Voronin became the Russian champion for the second time since 1999. At the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki he was eighth with 2.29 m. In the rainy competition in Helsinki, he jumped the height that reached silver, but Voronin had had the most failed attempts in the competition.

literature

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

Web links

• Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Voronin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )