Vyacheslav Voronin

Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Voronin (Russian Вячеслав Николаевич Воронин, born April 5, 1974 in Ordzhonikidze ) is a Russian athlete. At a height of 1.91 m his competition weight is 78 kg.

1993 Vyacheslav Voronin second in the high jump at the Junior European Championships. His first medal in the adult class, he won at the 1998 European Indoor Championships in Valencia, when he won with 2.31 ​​m in the third trial silver behind Poland's Artur Partyka, which this amount was succeeded in the second attempt.

In 1999 he won silver again, this time at the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi. With 2.36m he jumped again the same height as the winner, the Cuban Javier Sotomayor. Outdoors at the World Championships in Seville, he won gold with 2.37 m.

At the European Indoor Championships in 2000 in Ghent, he jumped 2.34 meters and won gold, because this time the more experimental rule in his favor spoke against the German Martin Buss ( silver ) and the Serbs Dragutin Topić (bronze). After he had jumped on August 5, 2000 in London with 2.40 m Russian record, he went as a world best years to the Olympic Games in Sydney. There he was with 2.29 m but only tenth, while his compatriot Sergei Kljugin was 2.35 m Olympic champion.

Voronin also disappointed at the World Indoor Championships in 2001 when he was only ninth. At the World Championships in Edmonton, he was back there again. Together with his compatriot Yaroslav Rybakov he won with 2.33 m silver behind Martin Buss.

After two weak years Voronin came in 2004 again over the height of 2.30 m. In the most important competition of the year at the 2004 Olympics in Athens he did not succeed this with 2,29 m he finished ninth. 2005 Voronin was the second time after 1999 Russian master. At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005, he was with 2.29 m aft. In the rain race in Helsinki he jumped so the amount that reached to silver, but Voronin had the most failures in competition.