Vitaliy Tsykunov (russian: Виталий Викторович Цыкунов; born 22 January 1987) is a retired

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i high jumper. He was born in

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.Vitaliy Tsykunov profile at IAAF (old)
/ref> As a junior competed at the 2006 World Junior Championships without reaching the final. He won the silver medal at the 2006 Asian Junior Championships the same year. On the regional level he finished sixth at the

2007 Asian Indoor Games The 2007 Asian Indoor Games, officially known as the 2nd Asian Indoor Games and also known as Macau 2007 were held in Macau, China from 26 October 2007 to 3 November 2007. Most events of the games took place at the Macao East Asian Games Dome. The ...

, eleventh at the 2007 Asian Championships, won the

2009 Asian Indoor Games The 2009 Asian Indoor Games ( vi, Đại hội Thể thao Trong nhà châu Á 2009), officially the 3rd Asian Indoor Games ( vi, Đại hội Thể thao Trong nhà châu Á lần thứ 3) and also known as Vietnam 2009, were a pancontinential indoo ...

, won the bronze medal at the 2009 Asian Championships and the bronze medal the 2010 Asian Games. He also competed at the 2007 Summer Universiade and the

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without reaching the final. He later finished fourteenth at the 2014 Asian Games. His personal best is 2.22 metres, first achieved outdoors in July 2012 in Almaty.

References

1987 births Living people Kazakhstani male high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Asian Games bronze medalists for Kazakhstan Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Sportspeople from Oskemen {{Kazakhstan-athletics-bio-stub