Smirnov at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics.

Vitaly Frilyevich Smirnov (born 25 October 1978 in Yekaterinburg) is a Russian-Uzbekistani decathlete.

He finished tenth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, won the gold medal at the 2003 Asian Championships in Manila in a personal best score of 8021 points, finished seventeenth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and won a silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha.

He participated in the 2007 Asian Championship in Amman and the World Championship in Osaka.

He finished fourth in the heptathlon at the 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Doha. Being among the leaders of the Uzbek national team, he successfully passed the selection for the Olympic Games in Beijing - this time he failed all attempts in the long jump and withdrew from the competition after three stages.[1][2]

Competition record

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Uzbekistan
1997 Asian Junior Championships Bangkok, Thailand 3rd Decathlon 6683 pts
2002 Asian Championships Colombo, Sri Lanka 6th Decathlon 6710 pts
Asian Games Busan, South Korea 4th Decathlon 7537 pts
2003 Asian Championships Manila, Philippines 1st Decathlon 8021 pts
World Championships Paris, France 10th Decathlon 7897 pts
2004 Olympic Games Athens, Greece 17th Decathlon 7993 pts
2005 World Championships Helsinki, Finland – Decathlon DNF
2006 Asian Games Doha, Qatar 2nd Decathlon 7769 pts
2007 World Championships Osaka, Japan – Decathlon DNF
2008 Asian Indoor Championships Doha, Qatar 4th Heptathlon 5085 pts
Olympic Games Beijing, China – Decathlon DNF

References

  1. ↑ "Vitaliy SMIRNOV - Olympic Athletics | Uzbekistan". 2016-10-06. Archived from the original on 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  2. ↑ "Vitaly Smirnov Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". 2016-12-04. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
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