Galina Chistyakova

Galina Dmitriyevna Chistyakova ( _ru. Галина Дмитриевна Чистякова, _sk. Galina Čisťaková; born July 26, 1962) is a retired athlete who represented the USSR and later Slovakia.

She was born in Izmail, Ukrainian SSR.

She trained at Burevestnik in Moscow. Competing in long jump, Galina Chistyakova won the 1985 European Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the European Championships 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 triple jump event held at the European Indoor Championships. Later that year she underwent a knee operation and never returned to her old form.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union she became a Russian citizen. At the end of her career she received Slovak citizenship and represented Slovakia. She has the Slovak triple jump record with 14.41 metres, achieved in July 1996 in London. [ [http://www.athletix.org/Statistics/natrtjwomen.html National Records - top 30 countries in women's triple jump] - The Athletics Site] Married to retired triple jumper Aleksandr Beskrovniy, the couple now lives in Slovakia.

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