Igor Paklin

Igor Paklin (Russian Игорь Паклин; born June 15, 1963 in Frunze, now Bishkek ) is a former Kyrgyz high jumper, who competed for the Soviet Union.

At the World Athletics Championships 1983 in Helsinki Paklin jumped 2.29 meters and finished together with Dietmar Mögenburg fourth place at the same height as the third -placed Chinese Zhu Jianhua. At the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg in 1984 Paklin was eighth with 2.20 meters.

On 4 September 1985 Paklin won at the Universiade in Kobe with the world record height of 2.41 meters in front of the Cubans Juan Francisco Centelles with 2.31 ​​meters and the German Gerd Nagel with 2.26 meters. At the European Championships in 1986 in Stuttgart Paklin won the title with 2.34 meters in front of his Soviet teammates Sergei Maltschenko and the German Carlo Thränhardt that crossed each 2.31 ​​meters.

In Indianapolis at the World Indoor Championships in 1987, he jumped like his team-mate Hennadij Awdjejenko 2.38 meters. Paklin won due to the multi- Pilot Rule Gold. In the summer at the World Championships in Rome jumped three jumpers over 2.38 meters. Paklin and Awdjejenko won silver behind the Swede Patrik Sjöberg.

At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul Paklin finished with 2.31 ​​meters in seventh place. In Tokyo, he was at the World Championships in 1991 with 2.24 meters again tenth. At the Olympic Games in 1992 failed Paklin, now starting for the United team, as well as in qualifying at the World Championships in Stuttgart in 1993.

Paklin in 1985 and 1991, Soviet masters. He was master of the Commonwealth of Independent States in 1992. He is 1.93 m tall and weighed about 71 kg competition times.