Aleksandr Averbukh
Personal information | |
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Native name | Александр Валерьевич Авербух |
Nationality | Israeli |
Born | 1 October 1974 | (age 49)
Sport | |
Country | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Pole vault |
Achievements and titles | |
Olympic finals | 8th (2004) |
World finals | (2001) |
Regional finals | (2000, 2002, 2006) |
Personal best | 5.93 m (2003) |
Medal record |
Aleksandr "Alex" Valeryevich Averbukh (Hebrew: אלכס אברבוך, Russian: Александр Валерьевич Авербух; born October 1, 1974) is a retired Russian decathlete and Israeli Olympic athlete, who competed in the pole vault.
He won silver and bronze medals at the World Championships, won a gold medal as the European champion in both 2002 and 2006, and won a gold medal at the 2013 Maccabiah Games. His personal best is 5.93 metres.
Biography
He was born in the Russian SSR, USSR, and is Jewish. He was formerly a decathlete competing for Russia, but he later became an Israeli citizen and rose to top level in pole vault. He competed in the 2001 Maccabiah Games, winning a gold medal.
He won silver and bronze medals at the World Championships and won a gold medal twice as the European champion in 2002 and 2006. His personal best is 5.93 metres, achieved in 2003 in Madrid. He retired from competition in 2009.
He competed on behalf of Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
He competed in the pole vault at the 2009 Maccabiah Games.
In 2013 he briefly returned from retirement to compete in the 2013 Maccabiah Games, where he won a gold medal for first place.
One of his daughters is the model Anastasya Averbukh.
Achievements
See also
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Irkutsk
- Israeli male pole vaulters
- Russian male pole vaulters
- Russian decathletes
- Olympic male pole vaulters
- Olympic athletes for Israel
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Israel
- Maccabiah Games medalists in athletics
- Competitors at the 2001 Maccabiah Games
- Competitors at the 2013 Maccabiah Games
- Competitors at the 2009 Maccabiah Games
- FISU World University Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Israel
- Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade
- Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
- Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Israel
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- European Athletics Championships winners
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- European Athletics Indoor Championships winners
- Russian Athletics Championships winners
- Russian Jews
- Soviet Jews
- Jewish male athletes (track and field)
- Russian emigrants to Israel