Oleg Zhukovskiy is a retired Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

ian high jump

High jump

The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

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He finished tenth at the 1993 World Championships, twelfth at the 1994 European Indoor Championships

1994 European Indoor Championships in Athletics

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, and fourteenth at the 1994 European Championships. He competed at the 1995 World Championships without reaching the final.

Zhukovskiy became Belarusian high jump champion in 1993. Rivals around this time include Vladimir Zaboronyok, Nikolay Moskalev and Aleksandr Buglakov. He also became the last Soviet indoor champion, in 1992.

His personal best was 2.31 metres, achieved in May 1993 in Gomel. On the indoor track he had 2.33 metres, achieved in February 1995 in Banska Bystrica

Banská Bystrica

Banská Bystrica is a key city in central Slovakia located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Veľká Fatra, and the Kremnica Mountains. With 81,281 inhabitants, Banská Bystrica is the sixth most populous municipality in Slovakia...

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