| Galina Chistyakova | |
| Native Name: | Галина Валентиновна Чистякова |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Fullname: | Galina Valentinovna Chistyakova |
| Nationality: | Russian / Slovak |
| Birth Date: | 1962 7, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Izmail, Ukrainian SSR |
| Height: | 1.69 m[1] |
| Weight: | 53 kg |
| Sport: | Track and field |
| Event: | Long jump, triple jump |
| Club: | CSKA Moscow |
| Coach: | Vyatscheslav Sokolow |
| Pb: | Long jump: 7.52 m WR Triple jump: 14.76 m |
| Updated: | 13 August 2014 |
Galina Valentinovna Chistyakova (Russian: Галина Валентиновна Чистякова, Slovak: Galina Čisťakovová; born 26 July 1962) is a retired athlete who represented the Soviet Union and later Slovakia. She is the current world record holder in the long jump, jumping 7.52 metres on 11 June 1988. She is the 1988 Olympic bronze medalist and the 1989 World Indoor champion. She is also a former world record holder (pre IAAF) in the triple jump with 14.52 metres in 1989.
Born in Izmail, Ukrainian SSR, Chistyakova trained at Burevestnik in Moscow. Competing in long jump, Galina Chistyakova won the 1985 European Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the European Championships one year later. In 1988 she managed to win an Olympic bronze medal in Seoul as well as jumping 7.52 metres, the current world record for women.[2] More gold medals at Indoor Championships followed, and in 1990 she even won the first triple jump event held at the European Indoor Championships. Later that year she underwent a knee operation but never returned to her old form.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union she became a Russian citizen. At the end of her career she received Slovak citizenship and represented Slovakia. She used to hold the Slovak triple jump record with 14.41 metres, achieved in July 1996 in London.[3] This mark was bettered by Dana Velďáková. Married to retired triple jumper Aleksander Beskrovnyi, the couple now lives in Slovakia.
| Representing | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Friendship Games | Moscow, Soviet Union | 3rd | Long jump | 7.11 m | |
| 1985 | Athens, Greece | 1st | Long jump | 7.02 m | ||
| World Cup | Canberra, Australia | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Long jump | 7.00 m | |
| 1986 | Goodwill Games | Moscow, Soviet Union | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Long jump | 7.27 m |
| Stuttgart, West Germany | 2nd | Long jump | 7.09 m | |||
| 1987 | Liévin, France | 2nd | Long jump | 6.89 m | ||
| World Indoor Championships | Indianapolis, United States | 4th | Long jump | 6.66 m | ||
| World Championships | Rome, Italy | 5th | Long jump | 6.99 m | ||
| 1988 | Budapest, Hungary | 2nd | Long jump | 7.24 m | ||
| Seoul, South Korea | 3rd | Long jump | 7.11 m | |||
| 1989 | The Hague, Netherlands | 1st | Long jump | 6.98 m | ||
| Budapest, Hungary | 1st | Long jump | 6.98 m | |||
| World Cup | Barcelona Spain | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Long jump | 7.10 m | |
| 1990 | Glasgow, Scotland | 1st | Long jump | 6.85 m | ||
| 1st | Triple jump | 14.14 m | ||||
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| 1992 | World Cup | Havana, Cuba | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Triple jump | 13.67 m |
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| 1996 | Olympic Games | Atlanta, United States | 23rd (q) | Long jump | 6.33 m | |
| scope=col colspan=2 | Test | scope=col | Performance | scope=col | Place | scope=col | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long jump | Outdoors | 7.52 m (+1.4 m/s) WR | 11 June 1988 | ||||
| Indoor | 7.30 m | Lipetsk | 28 January 1989 | ||||
| Triple jump | Outdoors | 14.76 m (+0.9 m/s) | Lucerne | 27 June 1995 | |||
| Indoor | 14.45 m | Lipetsk | 29 January 1989 |