Mikhail Khmelnitskiy

Mikhail Khmelnitsky (Russian: Михаил Хмельницкий; born July 24, 1969) is a former Belarusian goers.

At the Track Junior World Championships in 1988 in Sudbury, he won - starting for the Soviet Union - the bronze medal in the 10,000 m Track Walk. In 1994 he became Belarusian Champion in 20 km walk. In the same year he started at the European Athletics Championships in Budapest, the target is not reached.

About the 20 - kilometer distance Khmelnitsky occupied at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 1995 to ninth place and at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta twelfth place. The greatest success of his career, he scored at the World Athletics Championships in 1997 in Athens. There he won the bronze medal over 20 km behind Daniel Garcia and Mikhail Schtschennikow.

Mikhail Khmelnitsky was also the 1999 World Cup skiers in Mézidon- Canon sixth and finished at the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney 34th He is 1,71 m tall and had a competition weight of 62 kg.

Bests

• 20 km Walking: 1:18:14 h, 13 May 2000, Salihorsk