Igor Nikulin (hammer thrower)

Igor Yuriyevich Nikulin (Russian: Игорь Юрьевич Никулин; 14 August 1960 – 7 November 2021) was a hammer thrower who represented the USSR, the Unified Team, and later Russia. He won the bronze medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.

Igor Nikulin

Personal information
Native name	Игорь Юрьевич Никуԓин
Full name	Igor Yuriyevich Nikulin
Nationality	Russian
Born	(1960-08-14)14 August 1960 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	7 November 2021(2021-11-07) (aged 61) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	120 kg (265 lb)
Sport
Country	Soviet Union  Russia
Sport	Men's Athletics
Event	Hammer throw
Club	SA St. Petersburg
Achievements and titles
Personal best	84.48 m (1990)
Medal record Representing  Unified Team Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Hammer Representing  Soviet Union European Championships 1982 Athens Hammer 1986 Stuttgart Hammer 1990 Split Hammer Universiade 1981 Bucharest Hammer throw 1985 Kobe Hammer throw

Nikulin's U23 world record of 83.54 m, set 2 September 1982 in Athens, put him 2nd in the world of all time behind Sergey Litvinov's 83.98 m. His personal best of 84.48 m was set on 12 July 1990 in Lausanne currently^[when?] putting him 7th of all time. His father Yuriy Nikulin finished fourth at the men's hammer throw at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Nikulin died on 7 November 2021, at the age of 61.^[1]

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing the  Soviet Union
1979	European Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	1st	71.56 m
1982	European Championships	Athens, Greece	2nd	79.44 m
1983	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	4th	79.34 m
1984	Friendship Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	2nd	82.56 m
1986	Goodwill Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	5th	78.50 m
	European Championships	Stuttgart, West Germany	3rd	82.00 m
1987	World Championships	Rome, Italy	5th	80.18 m
1990	Goodwill Games	Seattle, United States	3rd	82.14 m
	European Championships	Split, Yugoslavia	3rd	80.02 m
Representing  Unified Team
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	3rd	81.38 m
	IAAF World Cup	Havana, Cuba	2nd	78.28 m
Representing  Russia
1994	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	4th	78.38 m