Eduard Hämäläinen (born 21 January 1969 in

Karaganda Karaganda (, ; ), also known as Karagandy (, ; ; ) (also sometimes romanized as Qaraghandy), is a major city in central Kazakhstan and the capital of the Karaganda Region. It is the fifth most populous city in the country, with a population o ...

Kazakh SSR The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Kazakhstan, the Kazakh SSR, KSSR, or simply Kazakhstan, was one of the transcontinental constituent republics of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1936 to 1991. Located in northern Centr ...

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) is a retired

decathlete The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of 10 track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (''áthlos'', or ἄθ� ...

from

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and

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. He originally competed for the

and then

after the Soviet dissolution, but changed nationality. His

great-grandfather Grandparents, individually known as grandmother and grandfather, or Grandma and Grandpa, are the parents of a person's father or mother – paternal or maternal. Every sexually reproducing living organism who is not a genetic chimera has a maxi ...

had moved from

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before 1917 and was later deported to Kazakhstan. He was a frequent competitor in the

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, including the men's decathlon event in 1998. During his career he won three silver medals at

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* 1969 births Living people Sportspeople from Karaganda Soviet decathletes Finnish decathletes Belarusian decathletes Belarusian people of Finnish descent Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for the Unified Team Olympic athletes for Belarus Olympic athletes for Finland World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists CIS Athletics Championships winners Finnish Athletics Championships winners {{Finland-athletics-bio-stub

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