Vasily Borisovich Kaptyukh (born June 27, 1967 , Molodechno ) is a Soviet and Belarusian athlete and trainer specializing in discus throwing . Honored Master of Sports of the Republic of Belarus (1995). Bronze medalist of the 1996 Olympic Games and 1995 and 2003 World Championships.
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| Full name | Vasily Borisovich Kaptyukh | ||||||||||||||||
| Date and place of birth | June 27, 1967 (52 years old) Molodechno , Minsk region , BSSR | ||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  USSR →  Russia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 197 cm | ||||||||||||||||
| The weight | 125 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | V.I. Sivtsov E. S. Cowban | ||||||||||||||||
| Sports career | 1985 - 2010 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Disk | 67.59 m (2000) | ||||||||||||||||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Family
- 2 Main results
- 3 Awards and titles
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Vasily Borisovich Kaptyukh was born on June 27, 1967 in Molodechno.
He trained under the leadership of Vladimir Ivanovich Sivtsov [1] . Repeated champion of the USSR among juniors. In 1992, became the owner of the European Cup. As part of the national team of Belarus, he participated in three Olympics (1996, 2000, 2004) [2] [3] . He officially ended his career in 2010 [4] .
He is currently working as a trainer and teacher at the Republican Center for Olympic Athletics Training in Minsk [5] . Among his pupils, Gleb Zhuk is a bronze medalist at the World Junior Championships 2016, a silver medalist at the European Junior Championships 2017 [6] [7] .
Family
Wife - Larisa. Son Roman (1990-2011) died during a terrorist attack in the Minsk metro [8] [9] [10] [11] . Daughter - Alena (born in 2008).
Key Results
| Year | Competition | Location | A place | Result |
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| the USSR | ||||
| 1985 | European Junior Championship | Cottbus , GDR | 57.18 m | |
| 1986 | World Junior Championship | Athens , Greece | 58.22 m | |
| Goodwill Games | Moscow , USSR | 8 | 60.02 m | |
| 1990 | Europe championship | Split , Yugoslavia | four | 63.72 m |
| 1991 | World Championship | Tokyo Japan | 12 | DNS |
| Belarus | ||||
| 1993 | World Championship | Stuttgart , Germany | 7 | 61.64 m |
| 1994 | Goodwill Games | Saint Petersburg , Russia | 7 | 58.16 m |
| 1995 | World Championship | Gothenburg , Sweden | 65.88 m | |
| IAAF Grand Prix Final | Monte Carlo , Monaco | four | 66.30 m | |
| 1996 | Olympic Games | Atlanta , USA | 65.80 m | |
| 1997 | World Championship | Athens , Greece | eleven | 60.12 m |
| IAAF Grand Prix Final | Fukuoka , Japan | 7 | 61.80 m | |
| 2000 | Olympic Games | Sydney Australia | four | 67.59 m |
| 2001 | World Championship | Edmonton canada | 6 | 66.25 m |
| IAAF Grand Prix Final | Melbourne Australia | 8 | 61.60 m | |
| Goodwill Games | Brisbane australia | 5 | 62.52 m | |
| 2003 | World Championship | Paris , France | 66.51 m | |
| World Athletics Finals | Monte Carlo , Monaco | 65.85 m | ||
| 2004 | Olympic Games | Athens , Greece | four | 65.10 m |
| World Athletics Finals | Monte Carlo , Monaco | 6 | 63.03 m | |
| 2005 | World Championship | Helsinki , Finland | 9 (q) | 61.04 m |
Awards and titles
- Honored Master of Sports of the Republic of Belarus (1995) [12] .
- Certificate of the Ministry of Sport and Tourism (2017) [13] .
Notes
- ↑ PATRIARCH. Vladimir Sivtsov: helping to believe
- ↑ Vasily Kaptyukh: “If you consider yourself a winner before the start, then you have already lost”
- ↑ Kaptyuh Vasily
- ↑ Irina Yatchenko, Vasily Kaptyukh and Natalya Safronnikova were taken out of sports
- ↑ Kaptyukh Vasily Borisovich
- ↑ The Path to Bronze, or What is the “Beetle Razor”
- ↑ Gleb Beetle: My coach is my idol! Part II
- ↑ The list of dead and injured in the terrorist attack in the Minsk metro has been published
- ↑ Closed off from everyone. After the terrorist attack on the subway, Vasily Kaptyukh did not learn to live without a son
- ↑ Miscellaneous. Vasily Kaptyukh: I can’t go to the cemetery to visit my son. Recently, my desire to live in general began to disappear, categorically
- ↑ The son of an Olympic medalist died in an explosion in the Minsk metro
- ↑ Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus of August 28, 1995 No. 338 On the assignment of honorary titles of the Republic of Belarus to a group of athletes and trainers
- ↑ Young athletes honored in the Ministry of Sports
Links
- Vasily Kaptyukh - profile on the IAAF website
- Vasily Kaptyukh - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com