Sergey Klyugin
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Medal record | ||
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Olympic Games | ||
Gold | 2000 Sydney | High Jump |
European Championships | ||
Bronze | 1998 Budapest | High Jump |
Sergey Petrovich Klyugin (born March 24, 1974 in Kineshma) is a Russian high jumper. He won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with 2.35m, one centimetre behind his personal best jump from 1998. A bronze medal at 1998's European championships was his only other international medal.
[edit] Major achievements
Year | Tournament | Venue | Result |
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1998 | European Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 3rd |
2000 | Summer Olympics | Sydney, Australia | 1st |
[edit] External links
- IAAF profile for Sergey Klyugin
Olympic champions in men's high jump |
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1896: Ellery Clark | 1900: Irving Baxter | 1904: Samuel Jones | 1906: Cornelius Leahy | 1908: Harry Porter | 1912: Alma Richards | 1920: Richmond Landon | Harold Osborn | 1928: Robert King | 1932: Duncan McNaughton | 1936: Cornelius Johnson | 1948: John Winter | 1952: Walter Davis | 1956: Charles Dumas | 1960: Robert Shavlakadze | 1964: Valeriy Brumel | 1968: Dick Fosbury | 1972: Jüri Tarmak | 1976: Jacek Wszoła | 1980: Gerd Wessig | 1984: Dietmar Mögenburg | 1988: Gennadiy Avdeyenko | 1992: Javier Sotomayor | 1996: Charles Austin | 2000: Sergey Klyugin | 2004: Stefan Holm |