Oleksiy Demyanyuk (July 30, 1958 in
Baranivka,
Ukrainian SSR
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...
– April 5, 1999) was a
high jumper from the
Soviet Union
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, who set the world's best year performance in 1981 with a leap of 2.33 metres at a meet in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
. He ended up in eleventh place at the
1980 Summer Olympics in
Moscow
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.
His son,
Dmytro Dem'yanyuk, is also a high jumper.
References
1981 Year Ranking
1958 births
1999 deaths
Ukrainian male high jumpers
Soviet male high jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union
Sportspeople from Zhytomyr Oblast
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