Viktor Chistiakov

Viktor Valentinovich Chistyakov (Russian Виктор Валентинович Чистяков, English transcription Viktor Chistyakov Valentinovitch, . Born February 9, 1975 in Moscow ) is a Russian pole vaulter, who started under the name Viktor Chistiakov for Australia from time to time.

The Junior World Champion 1994 won bronze at the 1996 European Athletics Indoor Championships 1996. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, he retired in the qualifier.

In 1997 he emigrated with his then-wife Tatiana Grigorieva, which was later also successful as a pole vaulter from Australia. Starting in 1999, eligible to start for his new home, he was in the same year an Australian champion. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney he finished fifth.

This was followed by a tenth place finish at the World Athletics Championships in 2001 in Edmonton, a sixth at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2003 and an eleventh at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis.

From 2007 he started again for Russia. At the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 he was tenth.

Viktor Chistyakov is 2,02 m tall and weighs 92 kg. He is the son of Valentin Chistyakov hurdler and sprinter Natalia Petschonkina. In his second marriage he is married to a middle distance runner Anna Alminowa.