Galina CHISTYAKOVA

Galina Chistyakova - U.S.S.R. - First women to long jump over 7.50 metres.

Photo/Foto: George Herringshaw

Date: 24 June 1989

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Thursday, 26 July 1962
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Izmail, Ukraine
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  • U.S.S.R.
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Galina CHISTYAKOVA - U.S.S.R. - First women to long jump over 7.50 metres.

 Galina CHISTYAKOVA is pictured above long jumping in London in 1989.

 

Women's Long Jump Final

European Athletics Championships 1986


 
1. Heike DRECHSLER   GDR   7.27 CBP
2. Galina CHISTYAKOVA   URS   7.09
3. Helga RADKE   GDR   6.89
4. Vali IONESCU   ROM   6.81
5. Lyudmila NINOVA   BUL   6.65
6. Silvia KHRISTOVA   BUL   6.61

 

 

Women's Long Jump Final

Olympic Games 1988

 
1. Jackie JOYNER-KERSEE   USA   7.40 OR
2. Heike DRECHSLER   GDR   7.22
3. Galina CHISTYAKOVA   SOV   7.11
4. Yelena BELEVSKAYA   SOV   7.04
5. Nicole BOEGMAN   AUS   6.73
6. Fiona MAY   GBR   6.62
7. Agata KARCZMAREK   POL   6.60
8. Sabine JOHN   GDR   6.50

 

LONG JUMP ANNUAL PROGRESSION.

PERFORMANCE    WIND    PLACE         DATE
1995     6.41        0.0      Linz               22 AUG
1993     6.31     +0.0       Sevilla          05 JUN
1990     7.35     +1.9       Bratislava     20 JUN
1988     7.52     +1.4     Leningrad     11 JUN     WORLD LONG JUMP RECORD.
1987     7.27     +1.3      Moskva          27 AUG
1986     7.34     +1.4      Tallinn           21 JUN
1985     7.28     +0.9      Moskva         18 AUG
1984     7.29     -0.5       Moskva         06 AUG 

 

Galina Chistyakova  won the European Indoor long jump championship three times.

1985 Athens, 1989 The Hague, 1990 Glasgow  and the triple jump once in 1990 Glasgow.

 

In 1989 she also won the World Indoor long jump championship in Budaoest.