Radion Gataullin
Radion Gataullin (Russian Радион Аксанович Гатауллин, Radion Aksanowitsch Gataullin, first name also written Rodion; born November 23, 1965 in Tashkent) is a native of Uzbekistan Russian Athlete of Tatar origin, who took until 1991 for the Soviet Union. In 1992 he started for the Commonwealth of Independent States and from 1993 for Russia. At a height of 1.89 meters his competition weight was 79 kg.
Together with the Ukrainian Serhiy Bubka and the Russian Maxim Vladimirovich Tarasov dominated Radion Gataullin over a decade the pole vault. 1989 Gataullin was the second pole vaulters after Bubka, who could skip the six- meter mark.
Career
For the Soviet Union until 1991
After winning at the Junior European Championships 1983 Gataullin won in 1985 also at the Universiade. After a fifth place with 5.60 at the European Indoor Championships Gataullin was at the 1987 World Championships in Rome with 5.80 meters third behind Bubka and Frenchman Thierry Vigneron. In the same year he finished second at the Universiade.
1988 won the European Indoor Championships in Gataullin in Budapest with 5.75 meters. At the Olympic Games in Seoul Bubka won with 5.90 meters. With 5.85 meters Gataullin won silver before the third representative of the Soviet Union Grigory Yegorov (5.80 meters).
On February 4, 1989 Gataullin presented at the Soviet Championships in Gomel 6.02 meters his personal best. As an indoor world record, however, the performance lasted only a week until Serhiy Bubka in Osaka jumped 6.03 meters. At the World Indoor Championships in 1989 in Budapest Bubka was not at the start. Gataullin won with 5.85 meters in front Yegorov with 5.80 meters. In the 1989 outdoor season Gataullin won the Grand Prix standings in the pole vault, where he jumped over 6.00 to end the season on 16 September in Tokyo and that was in the open air of the second six- meter Springer.
At the European Indoor Championships in 1990 in Glasgow Gataullin jumped 5.80 meters and won before Yegorov and Vigneron. Outdoors at the European Championships in 1990 in Split Serhiy Bubka came true after a long injury break back, but was not yet back to his best and was only sixth. Radion Gataullin won with 5.85 before Yegorov and the Austrian Hermann Fehring. Gataullin then won even at the Goodwill Games in 1990.
Serhiy Bubka in 1991 was not only back, but also in outstanding form so that Gataullins two-year winning streak was over. At the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, Bubka won with 5.95 meters in front of the Hungarian István Bagyula ( 5.90) and Maxim Tarasov, who like Gataullin fourth crossed 5.85 meters, but because of few failed attempts, won bronze.
1985, 1989 and 1991 was Radion Gataullin Soviet champion in the pole vault.
For Russia from 1992
Despite a personal Jahresbestleistung of 5.95 to Gataullin failed to qualify for the 1992 Olympics. Olympic champion Igor Tarasov before Trandenkow while Bubka had no valid trial. At the World Indoor Championships in 1993 Gataullin won with 5.90 meters before Yegorov. Unlike in the past, the two were no longer teammates, because Yegorov went to Kazakhstan, while Gataullin had opted for Russia, having lived and trained for years in Saint Petersburg.
The European Championships 1994 took place in Helsinki. Radion Gataullin jumped championship record of 6.00 meters and was able to successfully defend his title from 1990. At the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg Gataulin was 5.70 meters again fifth.
Private
Radion Gataullin is 1,89 m tall and weighed about 79 kg competition times. Even in the days of the Soviet Union, he moved to Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ) and married Tatiana Reschetnikowa, 1995 Fourth in the 100 - meter hurdles was at the World Championships. Gataullins younger brother Ruslan Gataullin was for Russia starting at the European Athletics Championships in 2006 seventh in the long jump.