Grigoriy Yemets, Date of Birth

Grigoriy Yemets

Russian athletics competitor

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1957

Profession: athletics competitor, triple jumper

Nationality: Russia, Ukraine

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Grigoriy Yemets (Russian: ???????? ????; born 8 October 1957) is a Ukrainian former track and field athlete who competed in the triple jump for the Soviet Union. His greatest achievement came at the 1984 European Athletics Indoor Championships, where he won the gold medal in the final with a European indoor record jump of 17.33 m (56 ft 10 1/4 in).
This was the best indoor performance that year.
It stood as the championship for only two years, as fellow Soviet Maris Bružiks cleared 17.54 m (57 ft 6 1/2 in) to win the title in 1986.Later in 1984 he set an outdoor career best of 17.30 m (56 ft 9 in) in Donetsk.
He was chosen to represent the Soviet Union at the Friendship Games, but managed only eighth place.
His highest global ranking was ninth, in the 1983 season, and after 1985 he dropped out of the global top 25.