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About Mikhail Kostin (athlete)
- Mikhail Kostin (born 10 May 1959) is a Belarusian male former track and field athlete who competed in the shot put, mainly for the Soviet Union.
- He won the inaugural shot put title at the Belarusian national championships in 1992.
- He made one international appearance for his native country, winning the 1993 European Cup title in the Second League.While he never competed at a major international event, he achieved distances that ranked him very highly.
- He threw beyond twenty metres every season he competed in from 1984 to 1994.
- His best 21.96 m (72 ft 1/2 in), achieved in 1986 ranked him seventh in the world for that season and, reflecting the high standards of the time, he continues to rank in the all-time top 30 shot putters.
- He ranked among the top ten shot putters in the world for the 1988 and 1989 seasons.
- In indoor competition, he set a best of 21.39 m (70 ft 2 in) in Minsk in January 1988, which makes him the third best Soviet thrower indoors after Sergey Kasnauskas and Sergey Smirnov.
- It made him the third best athlete of the 1988 indoor season, after Randy Barnes and Remigius Machura.
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