Gennadiy Valyukevich ( be, Генадзь Валюкевіч; 1 June 1958 – 30 December 2019) was a

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 ...

er who represented the

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and later

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. He won three medals at the European Indoor Championships. He was the father of Dmitrij Valukevic, who currently represents Slovakia.

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* 1958 births 2019 deaths Belarusian male triple jumpers Soviet male triple jumpers {{Belarus-athletics-bio-stub