Mykola Musiyenko, Date of Birth

    

Mykola Musiyenko

Soviet triple jumper

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1959

Profession: athletics competitor

Nationality: Ukraine

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Mykola Musiyenko

  • Mykola Musiyenko (Ukrainian: ?????? ????????, Russian: ??????? ???????? – Nikolay Musiyenko; born 16 December 1959) is a Ukrainian former triple jumper who represented the Soviet Union and later Ukraine.
  • He won four medals for the Soviet Union at the European Indoor Championships, being the champion in both 1983 and 1989.
  • He competed at the 1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships, but failed to record a valid mark in the final.
  • He was also a finalist at the 1986 European Athletics Championships.
  • He was a bronze medallist at the 1986 Goodwill Games, held on home soil in Moscow.He set his personal best mark of 17.78 m (58 ft 4 in) at the Brothers Znamensky Memorial in Leningrad in 1986.
  • This mark is a former European record and made him the fourth best jumper ever at the time (after Willie Banks, João Carlos de Oliveira and Charles Simpkins).
  • The European mark was beaten later that year by Bulgarian Khristo Markov and it remained the Soviet national record until 1990, when it was beaten by Vladimir Inozemtsev.
  • As of January 2017, Musiyenko remains second on the Ukrainian lists after Inozemtsev and within the twenty best outdoor triple jumpers on the all-time lists.He was twice national champion at the Soviet Indoor Athletics Championships, taking the title in 1982 and 1986 – both with meet record performances.
  • At the Soviet Athletics Championships outdoors, his best finish was third, which he achieved at the 1981 and 1987 meets.

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