Leonid Voloshin
Leonid Anatoljevich Voloshin (Russian Леонид Анатольевич Волошин, English transcription Leonid Voloshin, . Born March 30, 1966 in Ordzhonikidze ) is a former Russian track and field athlete, who competed for the Soviet Union and 1992 for the CIS up to 1991 and 1990 European champion in the triple jump was.
At the Junior European Championships in 1985 Voloshin was 7.79 meters in fourth in the long jump. In 1988, he won the Soviet Championship with his personal best of 8.46 meters and 7.89 meters was eighth at the Olympic Games in Seoul.
In 1990 he moved to the triple jump and immediately began with a width of 17.40 meters. At the European Championships in 1990 in Split, he improved this length already in the qualification to 17.59 meters. In the final he rose to 17.74 meters and was 31 centimeters ahead of the defending champion and Olympic champion Christo Markov from Bulgaria by third parties to place 2 was Voloshin's teammate Igor Lapshin.
In Seville at the World Indoor Championships 1991 Lapshin won with 17.31 meters before Voloshin with 17.04 meters. In the outdoor season Voloshin was Soviet champion in the triple jump. At the World Championships in Tokyo, he improved his personal best to 17.75 meters and won three centimeters residue silver behind Kenny Harrison.
1992 Voloshin came to at the European Indoor Championships in Genoa for the CIS. He won with 17.35 meters and 17 centimeters ahead of Frenchman Serge Helan. At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 Voloshin missed in fourth with 17.32 meters bronze medal by only four inches.
As of 1993 antretend for Russia Voloshin won at the World Championships in Stuttgart with 17.65 meters silver again, only Olympic gold medalist Mike Conley was 21 inches in front of him. On February 6, 1994 Voloshin presented in Grenoble with 17.77 meters, setting a new world record. Four weeks later at the European Indoor Championships in Paris in 1994 Voloshin won with 17.44 before Denis Kapustin. After Voloshin had now lost since the World Indoor Championships in 1991 with no major championships against a European, he went as a favorite to win the European title in the outdoor season in 1994., But He could injury do not qualify for the European Championships in Helsinki in 1994, where Kapustin won before Helan. Voloshin returned after several operations on the Achilles tendon no longer return to the world class.
His indoor world record was surpassed in 1997 by the Cuban Aliecer Urrutia with 17.83 meters to six inches. The Swede Christian Olsson introduced this brand in 2004 and sparked Voloshin as Halleneuroparekordler from.
Voloshin is 1,80 m tall and weighed about 72 kg competition times. He competed for Dynamo Krasnodar.