Shustov wins gold for Russia
29.07.2010
Aleksander Shustov kept gold in Russia’s hands in Barcelona’s Olympic stadium tonight as he followed Yaroslav Rybakov in 2002 and Andrey Silnov in 2006 as the European men’s high jump champion.
In a competition affected by vertical rain and booming thunder, Ivan Ukhov ensured Russia finished one and two for the first time, giving Europe’s dominant high jump nation its fourth and fifth medals in this event in the championships’ history. With Sergey Klyugin’s bronze from 1998, Russia has now won medals in the men’s high jump at all of the last four championships.
Shustov’s winning height, 2.33m, matched the PB he set at the Russian championships this year, while Ukhov, a man who dislikes competing in the wet, finished second with 2.31m, 3cm below his world lead, to add European silver to his world and European indoor titles.
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