Vyacheslav Lykho
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Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Lykho (Russian: Вячеслав Николаевич Лыхо; born 16 January 1967, Mikhnevo, Moscow Oblast) is a retired Russian shot putter who represented the USSR, the Unified Team, and later Russia. He won the bronze medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.[1] He was stripped of his bronze medal won at the 1990 European Championships in Split due to a doping offence.[2]
International competitions
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1986 | World Junior Championships | Athens, Greece | 2nd | Shot put | 18.71 m |
1987 | World Championships | Rome, Italy | 9th | Shot put | 19.98 m |
1990 | Goodwill Games | Seattle, United States | 3rd | Shot put | 20.70 m |
European Championships | Split, Yugoslavia | — | Shot put | DQ | |
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1992 | Olympic Games | Barcelona, Spain | 3rd | Shot put | 20.94 m |
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1996 | European Indoor Championships | Stockholm, Sweden | 10th | Shot put | 18.80 m |
1997 | World Championships | Athens, Greece | 27th (q) | Shot put | 18.04 m |
National titles
[edit]See also
[edit]- List of doping cases in athletics
- List of Olympic medalists in athletics (men)
- List of 1992 Summer Olympics medal winners
- Shot put at the Olympics
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Vyacheslav Lykho". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04.
- ^ "OLYMPICS / Barcelona 1992: Athletics: A clean sweep for former drug takers". 1 August 1992.
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- Soviet male shot putters
- Olympic male shot putters
- Olympic athletes for the Unified Team
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Unified Team
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
- Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games
- World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia
- Russian Athletics Championships winners
- Russian sportspeople in doping cases
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- Sportspeople from Moscow Oblast
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