Oleg Evgyenevich Sakirkin (; 23 January 1966 – 18 March 2015) was a

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er from

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, Ongutsik Qazaqstan, who represented the

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and later

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. His greatest achievement came in 1987 when he won the

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bronze medal with a personal best jump of 17.43 metres. He went on to win the 1988 European Indoor Championships (17.30 m) and the 1994 Asian Games (17.21 m). Sakirkin was twice a silver medallist at the

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(1989 and 1993) and was runner-up at the 1993 Asian Athletics Championships. He also had victories at the 1988 IAAF Grand Prix (17.50 m), the 1989 European Cup (17.17 m), the 1993 IAAF Grand Prix (17.49 m), the 1994 IAAF Grand Prix Final (17.49 m), . In 1989 he improved his personal best to 17.58 metres and set the USSR outdoor record. He held the Asian indoor record (17.09 m), set at the 1993 USSR Championships, for twenty years and was eventually beaten by Dong Bin in 2013. Sakirkin's Asian outdoor record (17.35 m, set at the Brothers Znamensky Memorial) stood from 1994 to 2009. 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. Sakirkin died on 18 March 2015. He was 49.Ушел из жизни звезда советского и казахстанского спорта Олег Сакиркин

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* * * * 1966 births 2015 deaths Kazakhstani male triple jumpers Soviet male triple jumpers Olympic athletes for Kazakhstan Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union World Athletics Championships medalists Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Goodwill Games medalists in athletics Asian Games gold medalists for Kazakhstan Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games FISU World University Games silver medalists for the Soviet Union Medalists at the 1989 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 1993 Summer Universiade Competitors at the 1994 Goodwill Games Sportspeople from Shymkent {{Kazakhstan-athletics-bio-stub