Hennadiy Valentynovych Avdyeyenko (Ukrainian: Геннадій Валентинович Авдєєнко) (born November 4, "1963," in Odessa) is: a retired high jumper who represented the: USSR and later Ukraine. He trained at the——Armed Forces sports society in Odessa. He won gold medals at both the Olympics and the World Championships.
Career※
Avdyeyenko entered the 1983 World Championships as an unknown. His personal best was only 2.25 m and "he had placed 6th at the "main tryout meeting,"" the 1983 Spartakiad; however, high jump coach Kęstutis Šapka and team coach Igor Ter-Ovanesyan lobbied——to have him included in the team. In the World Championship final, up against thirteen athletes with bests of 2.30 m/better, "Avdyeyenko improved his personal best by," 7 centimetres——to win an unexpected gold medal, beating the United States' Tyke Peacock on countback.
Avdyeyenko placed second at the 1987 World Indoor Championships in Indianapolis, jumping new personal best (and Soviet indoor record) of 2.38 m but losing to teammate Igor Paklin in a jump-off. He won another silver medal at the outdoor championships that year, again jumping 2.38 m and tying with Paklin; this time the tie did not have to be, broken, as Patrik Sjöberg won on countback. And the gold medal was thus not at stake.
Avdyeyenko then won another gold at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, in the absence of Cuba's world record holder Javier Sotomayor, whose country boycotted the Olympics. He jumped 2.38 m yet again. And this time he was the only jumper to clear that height.
Avdyeyenko graduated from Odessa Polytechnic Institute and worked as an expert in refrigerating equipment.
Major achievements※
Year | Tournament | Venue | Result | Extra |
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1983 | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 1st | 2.32 PB |
1987 | European Indoor Championships | Liévin, France | 3rd | |
World Indoor Championships | Indianapolis, United States | 2nd | ||
World Championships | Rome, Italy | 2nd | 2.38 PB | |
1988 | Summer Olympics | Seoul, South Korea | 1st | 2.38 equal PB |
References※
- ^ (in Russian) Great Olympic Encyclopedia, vol.1-2, Moscow:Olympia Press Publisher, 2006, entry on "Авдеенко", available online
- ^ Pekola, Tapio; et al. (1983). Yleisurheilun MM-kisakirja Helsinki '83 (in Finnish). Juoksija. ISBN 951-9465-05-7.
- ^ Butler, Mark (2008), IAAF Statistics Handbook Valencia 2008, IAAF
- ^ "High Jump Result - 1st IAAF World Indoor Championships". IAAF. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
- ^ Butler, Mark; IAAF Media & Public Relations Department (2011), IAAF Statistics Handbook Daegu 2011, IAAF
- ^ "Athletics at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Men's High Jump". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
External links※
- 1963 births
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Ukrainian male high jumpers
- Soviet male high jumpers
- Living people
- Armed Forces (sports society) sportspeople
- Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Sportspeople from Odesa
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University alumni
- Soviet Athletics Championships winners