Vyacheslav Lykho
Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Lykho (Russian: Вячеслав Николаевич Лыхо; born 16 January 1967, Mikhnevo, Moscow Oblast) is a retired Russian shot putter who represented the USSR, the Unified Team, and later Russia. He won the bronze medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.[1] He was stripped of his bronze medal won at the 1990 European Championships in Split due to a doping offence.[2]
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing the Soviet Union | |||||
1986 | World Junior Championships | Athens, Greece | 2nd | Shot put | 18.71 m |
1987 | World Championships | Rome, Italy | 9th | Shot put | 19.98 m |
1990 | Goodwill Games | Seattle, United States | 3rd | Shot put | 20.70 m |
European Championships | Split, Yugoslavia | — | Shot put | DQ | |
Representing the Unified Team | |||||
1992 | Olympic Games | Barcelona, Spain | 3rd | Shot put | 20.94 m |
Representing Russia | |||||
1996 | European Indoor Championships | Stockholm, Sweden | 10th | Shot put | 18.80 m |
1997 | World Championships | Athens, Greece | 27th (q) | Shot put | 18.04 m |
National titles
- Russian Athletics Championships
- Shot put: 1992, 1997
See also
- List of doping cases in athletics
- List of Olympic medalists in athletics (men)
- List of 1992 Summer Olympics medal winners
- Shot put at the Olympics
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Vyacheslav Lykho". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04.
- ^ "OLYMPICS / Barcelona 1992: Athletics: A clean sweep for former drug takers". 1 August 1992.
External links
- Vyacheslav Lykho at World Athletics
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Russian Athletics Championships men's shot put champions
- 1992: Vyacheslav Lykho
- 1993: Yevgeny Palchikov
- 1994: Sergey Nikolayev
- 1995: Aleksey Shidlovsky
- 1996: Yevgeny Palchikov
- 1997: Vyacheslav Lykho
- 1998: Sergey Nikolayev
- 1999: Sergey Lyakhov
- 2000–01: Pavel Chumachenko
- 2002: Ivan Yushkov
- 2003: Pavel Chumachenko
- 2004–05: Ivan Yushkov
- 2006: Pavel Sofin
- 2007: Anton Lyuboslavskiy
- 2008: Ivan Yushkov
- 2009: Maksim Sidorov
- 2010: Ivan Yushkov
- 2011–13: Maksim Sidorov
- 2014: Aleksandr Lesnoy
- 2015: Maksim Sidorov
- 2016: Maksim Afonin
- 2017–19: Aleksandr Lesnoy
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