Leonid Shcherbakov
Leonid Mikhailovich Shcherbakov (Russian: Леонид Михайлович Щербаков; born April 7, 1927) is a former Soviet athlete who in 1950 and 1954 European champion in the triple jump.
Shcherbakov was founded in 1948 in the Soviet championships second behind Hugo Out Mountain. In 1949, he won his first championship, but lost in 1950 against Boris Sambrimborz. From 1951 to 1956 Shcherbakov won six league titles in a row, 1957, he was again second, this time behind Oleg Ryakhovsky.
At the European Championships in 1950 in Brussels Shcherbakov won with 15.39 meters gold with 40 centimeters ahead of the Finn Valdemar Rautio. Two years later at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, he finished with 15.98 meters in second place behind the Brazilian Adhemar Ferreira da Silva; The Brazilian had two times improved with 16.12 meters and 16.22 meters in the final world record, Shcherbakov had increased its European record by 28 cm.
After he had increased in March 1953, the Hallenweltbestleistung in the triple jump at 15.52 meters, Shcherbakov succeeded on 19 July 1953 in Moscow, a jump of 16.23 meters, outperforming the world record by one centimeter. At the European Championships in Berne in 1954 he successfully defended his European title successfully. With 15.90 meters he was well ahead of Sweden's Roger Norman with 15.17 meters.
In March 1955, Ferreira Silva got there with 16.56 meters world record back. Shcherbakov presented on July 4, 1956 in Moscow with a new personal best 16.46 meters on, the jump meant his tenth Soviet national record and won his seventh European record. At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956, he was 15.80 meters but only sixth, while Ferreira da Silva won before the Icelanders Vilhjálmur Einarsson.
Shcherbakov competed for Dynamo Moscow. At a height of 1.78 m his competition weight was 73 kg. After his career he worked as a coach, he coached the Cuban triple jump world record holder Pedro Pérez ( 1971: 17,40 m).
According to him the Schtscherbaki jumps were named, which are sprung by an incorrect interpretation of a translation from the Russian. This referred to a jump exercise, which he allegedly anwandte as an athlete. The jumps are performed as follows: Man squats and jumps in the air. Here, the rear leg is stretched and the urge bent. In the air the athlete looks as if he would make a run jump. The arms are in the attitude of a runner. The landing takes place again as the final jump in the squat. The next time you jump, the leg and arm is replaced. The exercise takes place almost on the spot. So one moves away a few meters. So the name of the exercise went into the German sports literature. After a discussion of the national coach for triple jump of the GDR, Heinz Rieger and Leonid Mikhailovich Shcherbakov in Cuba, confirmed the athlete that he has never done this exercise, but it is for good.