Oleg Denishchik ( be, Алег Дзянішчык; born 10 November 1969) is a retired

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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. His personal best jump was 17.53 metres, achieved in July 1991 in Kyiv. He twice competed at the

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, reaching the final on both occasions. He was a one-time national champion at the Belarusian Athletics Championships, winning the men's triple jump in 1993. He was runner-up at the 1991 Soviet Athletics Championships.Спартакиада народов СССР и чемпионат СССР // Лёгкая атлетика : журнал. — 1991. — № 9. — С. 4—5.

International competitions

National titles

* Belarusian Athletics Championships **Triple jump:

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References

* 1969 births Living people Soviet male triple jumpers Belarusian male triple jumpers World Athletics Championships athletes for Belarus World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union {{Belarus-athletics-bio-stub