Konstantin Volkov (pole vaulter)
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men's Athletics | ||
Representing the Soviet Union | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1980 Moscow | Pole vault | |
World Championships | ||
1983 Helsinki | Pole vault | |
European Indoor Championships | ||
1980 Sindelfingen | Pole vault | |
1979 Vienna | Pole vault | |
1982 Milan | Pole vault | |
Universiade | ||
1981 Bucharest | Pole Vault | |
1983 Edmonton | Pole Vault |
Konstantin Yuryevich Volkov (Russian: Константин Юрьевич Волков) (born February 28, 1960 in Irkutsk) is a retired pole vaulter.
Biography
He represented the USSR. In 1980 he won the European Indoor Championships with a championship record of 5.60 metres (which was beaten the following year). He also won an Olympic silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In 1983 he won a silver medal at the inaugural World Championships in 1983, and the next year he jumped 5.85 metres, his personal best.
References
Categories:
- 1960 births
- Living people
- People from Irkutsk
- Russian pole vaulters
- Male pole vaulters
- Soviet pole vaulters
- Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Championships in Athletics medalists
- Soviet athletics Olympic medalist stubs
- Russian athletics biography stubs