Oleg Evgyenevich Sakirkin ( kz, Олег Евгеневич Сакиркин; 23 January 1966 – 18 March 2015) 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 from

Shymkent Shymkent (; Шымкент, Şymkent), known until 1993 as Chimkent ( uz, Çımkent, چىمكېنت; Yañalif: Çimkent ()); russian: Чимкент, translit=Chimkent (), is a city in Kazakhstan. It is near the border with Uzbekistan. It is one ...

, Ongutsik Qazaqstan, who represented the

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and later

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

. His greatest achievement came in 1987 when he won the

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bronze medal with a personal best jump of 17.43 metres. He went on to win the 1988 European Indoor Championships (17.30 m) and the

1994 Asian Games The 1994 Asian Games ( ja, 1994年アジア競技大会, ''Senkyūhyakukyūjūyon-nen Ajia kyōgi taikai''), also known as the XII Asiad and the 12th Asian Games ( ja, 第12回アジア競技大会, Daijūni-kai Ajia kyōgi taikai), were held from ...

(17.21 m). Sakirkin was twice a silver medallist at the

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(1989 and 1993) and was runner-up at the 1993 Asian Athletics Championships. He also had victories at the 1988 IAAF Grand Prix (17.50 m), the 1989 European Cup (17.17 m), the 1993 IAAF Grand Prix (17.49 m), the

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(17.49 m), . In 1989 he improved his personal best to 17.58 metres and set the USSR outdoor record. He held the Asian indoor record (17.09 m), set at the 1993 USSR Championships, for twenty years and was eventually beaten by

Dong Bin Dong Bin (; born 22 November 1988) is a Chinese track and field athlete who specialises in the triple jump. He is a two-time gold medallist at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships and has a personal best of 17.58 metres, which he set winning t ...

in 2013. Sakirkin's Asian outdoor record (17.35 m, set at the Brothers Znamensky Memorial) stood from 1994 to 2009. He set 17 Kazakh national records starting from 17.02 m up to the current record of 17.58 m. He also competed at the 2000 Olympics without reaching the final. Sakirkin died on 18 March 2015. He was 49.Ушел из жизни звезда советского и казахстанского спорта Олег Сакиркин

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* * 1966 births 2015 deaths Kazakhstani male triple jumpers Soviet male triple jumpers Olympic athletes for Kazakhstan Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union World Athletics Championships medalists Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Goodwill Games medalists in athletics Asian Games gold medalists for Kazakhstan Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games Universiade silver medalists for the Soviet Union Medalists at the 1989 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 1993 Summer Universiade Competitors at the 1994 Goodwill Games Sportspeople from Shymkent {{Kazakhstan-athletics-bio-stub