Galina Valentinovna Chistyakova (russian: Галина Валентиновна Чистякова, sk, Galina Čisťaková; born 26 July 1962) is a retired

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who represented the

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and later

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. She is the current world record holder in the

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, jumping 7.52 metres on 11 June 1988. She is the 1988 Olympic bronze medalist and the 1989 World Indoor champion. She is also a former world record holder (pre IAAF) in the

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with 14.52 metres in 1989.

Biography

Born in

Izmail Izmail (, , translit. ''Izmail,'' formerly Тучков ("Tuchkov"); ro, Ismail or ''Smil''; pl, Izmaił, bg, Исмаил) is a city and municipality on the Danube river in Odesa Oblast in south-western Ukraine. It serves as the administra ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

, Chistyakova trained at Burevestnik in

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. Competing in long jump, Galina Chistyakova won the 1985 European Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the

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one year later. In 1988 she managed to win an Olympic bronze medal in Seoul as well as jumping 7.52 metres, the current world record for women. More gold medals at Indoor Championships followed, and in 1990 she even won the first

event held at the European Indoor Championships. Later that year she underwent a knee operation but never returned to her old form. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union she became a

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n citizen. At the end of her career she received Slovak citizenship and represented

. She used to hold the Slovak triple jump record with 14.41 metres, achieved in July 1996 in London.National Records - top 30 countries in women's triple jump
- The Athletics Site This mark was bettered by Dana Velďáková. Married to retired triple jumper Aleksander Beskrovnyi, the couple now lives in Slovakia.

International competitions

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chistyakova, Galina 1962 births Living people People from Izmail Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Slovakia World Athletics record holders Burevestnik (sports society) athletes Ukrainian female long jumpers Ukrainian female triple jumpers Slovak female long jumpers Slovak female triple jumpers Soviet female long jumpers Soviet female triple jumpers European Athletics Championships medalists Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Goodwill Games medalists in athletics CIS Athletics Championships winners World Athletics Indoor Championships winners Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games Friendship Games medalists in athletics Sportspeople from Odesa Oblast