Aleksey Leonidovich Fyodorov (russian: Алексей Леонидович Фёдоров, also known as ''Aleksey Fedorov''; born 25 May 1991) is a Russian

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

athlete who specialises in the

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

. A former champion at world and European junior level (under-19), he was the bronze medallist at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships. He won the 2011 Russian national title and has represented his country at the

World Championships in Athletics The World Athletics Championships (until 2019 known as the World Championships in Athletics) are a biennial athletics competition organized by World Athletics (formerly IAAF, International Association of Athletics Federations). Alongside the Ol ...

and the

European Athletics Championships The European Athletics Championships is a biennial (from 2010) athletics event organised by the European Athletics Association and is recognised as the elite continental outdoor athletics championships for Europe. Editions First held, for men ...

. His personal best for the discipline is 17.19 metres.

Career

Born in Russia's

Smolensk Oblast Smolensk Oblast (russian: Смоле́нская о́бласть, ''Smolenskaya oblast''; informal name — ''Smolenschina'' (russian: Смоле́нщина)) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative centre is the city o ...

, Fyodorov had international success at a young age, taking the silver medal at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics.Alexsey Federov
RusAthletics. Retrieved on 2013-03-07. He marked himself out as one of the world's most promising jumpers by clearing sixteen metres in 2008 before winning gold medals at the 2009 European Athletics Junior Championships and 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics.Alexsey Fedorov
IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-03-07. He was Russia's first world junior champion in that event since Sergey Bykov's win in 1990. His first clearance over seventeen metres was in June 2010 and his mark of 17.12 m was a Russian junior record. In one of the competition's strongest ever fields, the 20-year-old Fyodorov was runner-up at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships. The winner, Sheryf El-Sheryf, jumped 17.72 m which ranked him fourth in the world that year. Fyodorov's best that year was 17.01 m and he transitioned into the senior ranks with a win at the Russian Championships in July. This earned him a place at the

2011 World Championships in Athletics The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011. The United States topped the medal standings in th ...

, but he failed to get beyond the qualifiers of the men's triple jump competition. Fyodorov reached his first major final at the

2012 European Athletics Championships The 2012 European Athletics Championships were held in Helsinki, Finland between 27 June and 1 July 2012. This edition marks the beginning of a new two-year cycle of the European Athletics Championships which were previously held every four years. ...

and finished in fourth place, beaten out of the bronze medal by a wind-assisted Aliaksei Tsapik. He was runner-up to Lyukman Adams at the national championships and had his season's best performance of 17.19 m later that month. That jump was one centimetre off the Olympic 'A' standard and meant that he missed the Russian team for the

2012 London Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

. Despite this set back he rebounded at the start of 2013 by taking second at the Russian indoor championships, then set an indoor best of 17.12 m in the triple jump final at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships, securing third place and his first medal at the senior level.Greco smashes his best to take triple jump gold in world-leading 17.70m
. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-03-07.

Achievements

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fyodorov, Aleksey Living people 1991 births Sportspeople from Smolensk Russian male triple jumpers Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade silver medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade Authorised Neutral Athletes at the World Athletics Championships World Athletics U20 Championships winners European Athletics Championships medalists Russian Athletics Championships winners