Full Name: | Leonid Anatolyevich Voloshin |
Birth Place: | Ordzhonikidze, North Ossetian ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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Leonid Anatolyevich Voloshin (Russian: Леонид Анатолъевич Волошин; born 30 March 1966 in Ordzhonikidze) is a retired triple jumper from Russia. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Voloshin won the European Championships in 1990 as well as two European Indoor titles. He also won two World Championship silvers, in 1991 and 1993. In Tokyo 1991 he achieved a personal best jump of 17.75 metres, which puts him 18th in the all-time performers list.
In long jump he is ranked 22nd with a personal best jump of 8.46 metres (Russia national record until 2013 when Aleksandr Menkov jumped 8.56 m). He switched to triple jump in 1990.
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1988 | Seoul, South Korea | 8th | Long jump | 7.89 m | ||
1990 | European Championships | Split, Yugoslavia | 1st | Triple jump | 17.74 m (wind: +0.8 m/s) | |
1991 | World Indoor Championships | Seville, Spain | 2nd | Triple jump | 17.04 m | |
World Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 2nd | Triple jump | 17.75 m PB | ||
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1992 | European Indoor Championships | Genoa, Italy | 1st | Triple jump | 17.35 m | |
Barcelona, Spain | 4th | Triple jump | 17.32 m | |||
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1993 | World Championships | Stuttgart, Germany | 2nd | Triple jump | 17.65 m | |
1994 | European Indoor Championships | Paris, France | 1st | Triple jump | 17.44 m |