Igor Nikulin (hammer thrower)
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Native name | Игорь Юрьевич Никуԓин |
Full name | Igor Yuriyevich Nikulin |
Nationality | Russian |
Born | August 14, 1960 Moscow, Soviet Union | (age 63)
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) |
Weight | 120 kg (265 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | ![]() ![]() |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Hammer throw |
Club | SA St. Petersburg |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | 84.48 m (1990) |
Medal record |
Igor Yuriyevich Nikulin (Russian: Игорь Юрьевич Никулин; born August 14, 1960 in Moscow, Russian SFSR) is a former hammer thrower who represented the USSR, the Unified Team, and later Russia. He won the bronze medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.
One of the most remarkable performances in all of hammer throwing is Igor Nikulin's U23 world record of 83.54 m set 1982-09-02 in Athína, which then was good enough to put him 2nd in the world through all time behind Sergey Litvinov on 83.98 m. His personal best of 84.48 m was set on July 12, 1990 in Lausanne currently putting him 7th through all time. Nikulin's father Yury finished fourth at the men's hammer throw at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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1979 | European Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 1st | 71.56 m |
1982 | European Championships | Athens, Greece | 2nd | 79.44 m |
1983 | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 4th | 79.34 m |
1984 | Friendship Games | Moscow, Soviet Union | 2nd | 82.56 m |
1986 | Goodwill Games | Moscow, Soviet Union | 5th | 78.50 m |
European Championships | Stuttgart, West Germany | 3rd | 82.00 m | |
1987 | World Championships | Rome, Italy | 5th | 80.18 m |
1990 | Goodwill Games | Seattle, United States | 3rd | 82.14 m |
European Championships | Split, Yugoslavia | 3rd | 80.02 m | |
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1992 | Olympic Games | Barcelona, Spain | 3rd | 81.38 m |
IAAF World Cup | Havana, Cuba | 2nd | 78.28 m | |
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1994 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 4th | 78.38 m |
External links
Categories:
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Russian male hammer throwers
- Soviet male hammer throwers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of the Unified Team
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Unified Team
- Sportspeople from Moscow
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
- Soviet athletics biography stubs
- Russian athletics biography stubs