Russian former track and field athlete (born 1966)
Sergey Nikolayev (Russian : Сергей Николаев ; born 12 November 1966) is a Russian former track and field athlete who competed in the shot put . He set a personal best of 21.35 m (70 ft 1 ⁄2 in) in 1989. He represented the Soviet Union at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics , placing fifth, and was a two-time participant at the European Athletics Championships , in 1990 and 1994. His highest world seasonal ranking – sixth – came in 1989.
Nikolayev was a silver medallist at the 1992 IAAF World Cup .[1] He was also a bronze medallist on home turf at the 1994 Goodwill Games , taking third behind Americans C. J. Hunter and Randy Barnes .[2]
He was twice national champion at the Russian Athletics Championships , winning the shot put in 1994 and 1998.[3] He competed as a guest at the Japan Championships in Athletics in 1990 and won in a meet record of 19.02 m ( 62 ft 4+ 3 ⁄4 in).[4]
Japan Championships in Athletics men's shot put champions
1913: Tamotsu Tatsuno
1914: Kinichi Goto
1915: Satoshi Suzuki
1916: Tetsugoro Ito
1917–18: Shosuke Nakamura
1919: Hiroshi Masuda
1920: Tadaomi Nimura
1921: Mitsuzo Hanai
1922: Yoshio Sarumaru
1923: Sueyoshi Yokokawa
1924: Not held
1925: Kazuo Higuchi
1926: Sueyoshi Mizokawa
1927: Shizuo Takada
1928: Sueyoshi Ishida
1929: Mae Saito
1930–31: Shizuo Takada
1932: Denjiro Kurihara
1933–35: Shizuo Takada
1936–37: Yoshiro Kamidai
1938: Hanji Aoki
1939: Taisuke Nishida
1940: Hidematsu Nagakura
1941: Not held
1942: Seihei Nishimura
1943–45: Not held
1946–48: Seihei Nishimura
1949: Takashi Kimura
1950–51 Fuo Denda
1952 Norimi Sato
1953–54: Yoshio Kojima
1955–59: Hitoshi Goto
1960: Shozo Yanagawa
1961–62: Teruo Itokawa
1963: Heinfried Birlenbach (FRG)
1964: Yoshihisa Ishida
1965: Ichiro Watanabe
1966–67: Yoshihisa Ishida
1968–77: Masazumi Aoki
1978–79: Yuzo Koyama
1980: Yoshihisa Urita
1981: Tetsushi Ikegawa
1982: Shigenori Miura
1983: Yoshihisa Urita
1984: Yoshio Ito
1985–87: Yoshihisa Urita
1988: Toshiyuki Yamato
1989: Yuji Okano
1990: Sergey Nikolayev (URS)
1991: Gheorghe Gușet (ROM)
1992: Yuji Okano
1993: Adewale Olukoju (NGR)
1994–96: Yuji Okano
1997–2001: Yasutada Noguchi
2002: Satoshi Hatase
2003: Yasutada Noguchi
2004: Yohei Murakawa
2005–07: Satoshi Hatase
2008: Yohei Murakawa
2009: Sotaro Yamada
2010: Satoshi Hatase
2011: Yohei Murakawa
2012–18: Satoshi Hatase
2019: Hisashi Takeda
2020: Shinichi Yukinaga
2021: Reiji Takeda
2022: Hikaru Murakami
2023: Hitoshi Okumura
Russian Athletics Championships men's shot put champions
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