- Oleg Sakirkin
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Oleg Yevgenevich Sakirkin (Kazakh: Олег Евгеневич Сакиркин; born January 23, 1966 in Shymkent, Ongutsik Qazaqstan) is a retired triple jumper who represented the USSR and later Kazakhstan. His greatest achievement came in 1987, when he won the World Championship bronze medal with a personal best jump of 17.43 metres. He went on to win the 1988 European Indoor Championships (17.30 m), the 1988 Grand Prix Championships (17.50 m), the 1989 European Cup (17.17 m), the 1993 Grand Prix (17.49 m), the 1994 Grand Prix Final (17.49 m), and the 1994 Asian Games (17.21 m). In 1989 he improved his personal best to 17.58 metres and set the current USSR Outdoor Record. He holds the Asian Indoor Record (17.09) which he set at the 1993 USSR Championships and the Asian Outdoor Record (17.35 m) which he set at the 1994 Znamenski Memorial. 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.
Achievements
Year Competition Venue Position Notes Representing 
Soviet Union1987 World Championships Rome, Italy 3rd 1988 European Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 1st Grand Prix Championships Barcelona, Spain 1st 1989 European Cup Budapest, Hungary 1st USSR Championships Gorky, Russia 2nd World Student Games Duisburg, West Germany 2nd 1990 European Indoor Championships Glasgow, Scotland 2nd 1991 Znamenski Memorial St. Petersburg, Russia 1st Representing 
Kazakhstan1993 World Student Games Buffalo, USA 2nd USSR Championships Moscow, Russia 1st Goodwill Games St. Petersburg, Russia 2nd Asian Championships Manila, Philippines 2nd Grand Prix Dijon, France 1st 1994 Grand Prix Final Paris, France 1st World Cup London, England 3rd Asian Games Hiroshima, Japan 1st Znamenski Memorial St. Petersburg, Russia 1st 1995 Central Asian Games Tashkent, Uzbekistan 1st 1999 Central Asian Games Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 1st External links
- IAAF profile for Oleg Sakirkin
- sports-reference
European Indoor Champions in Men's Triple Jump 1970: Viktor Saneyev (URS) • 1971: Viktor Saneyev (URS) • 1972: Viktor Saneyev (URS) • 1973: Carol Corbu (ROU) • 1974: Michal Joachimovski (POL) • 1975: Viktor Saneyev (URS) • 1976: Viktor Saneyev (URS) • 1977: Viktor Saneyev (URS) • 1978: Anatoly Piskulin (URS) • 1979: Gennadiy Valyukevich (URS) • 1980: Béla Bakosi (HUN) • 1981: Shamil Abbyasov (URS) • 1982: Béla Bakosi (HUN) • 1983: Nikolay Musiyenko (URS) • 1984: Grigoriy Yemets (URS) • 1985: Hristo Markov (BUL) • 1986: Māris Bružiks (URS) • 1987: Serge Hélan (FRA) • 1988: Oleg Sakirkin (URS) • 1989: Nikolay Musiyenko (URS) • 1990: Igor Lapshin (RUS) • 1992: Leonid Voloshin (RUS) • 1994: Leonid Voloshin (RUS) • 1996: Máris Bružiks (LAT) • 1998: Jonathan Edwards (GBR) • 2000: Charles Friedek (GER) • 2002: Christian Olsson (SWE) • 2005: Igor Spasovkhodskiy (RUS) • 2007: Phillips Idowu (GBR) • 2009: Fabrizio Donato (ITA) • 2011: Teddy Tamgho (FRA)
Categories:- 1966 births
- Living people
- Kazakhstani athletes
- Soviet athletes
- Triple jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Kazakhstan
- Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Soviet athletics biography stubs
- Asian athletics biography stubs
- Kazakhstani sportspeople stubs
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