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[[File:Олег Сакиркин.JPG|thumb|Oleg Sakirkin in 2010.]]
'''Oleg Evgenevich Sakirkin''' ({{lang-kz|Олег Евгеневич Сакиркин}}; January 23, 1966 – March 18, 2015) was a [[triple jump]]er from [[Shymkent]], [[South Kazakhstan Province|Ongutsik Qazaqstan]],<ref>[http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sa/oleg-sakirkin-1.html Oleg Sakirkin]. sports-reference. Retrieved on 2015-03-22.</ref> who represented the [[USSR]] and later [[Kazakhstan]]. His greatest achievement came in 1987 when he won the [[1987 World Championships in Athletics|World Championship]] bronze medal with a personal best jump of 17.43 metres. He went on to win the [[1988 European Indoor Championships in Athletics|1988 European Indoor Championships]] (17.30 m) and the [[1994 Asian Games]] (17.21 m).

Sakirkin was twice a silver medallist at the [[Summer Universiade]]  (1989 and 1993) and was runner-up at the [[1993 Asian Athletics Championships]]. He also had victories at the 1988 IAAF Grand Prix (17.50 m), the [[1989 European Cup (athletics)|1989 European Cup]] (17.17 m), the 1993 IAAF Grand Prix (17.49 m), the [[1994 IAAF Grand Prix Final]] (17.49 m), .

In 1989 he improved his personal best to 17.58 metres and set the [[List of USSR records in athletics|USSR outdoor record]].  He held the [[List of Asian records in athletics|Asian indoor record]] (17.09&nbsp;m), set at the 1993 [[USSR Athletics Championships|USSR Championships]], for twenty years and was eventually beaten by [[Dong Bin]] in 2013.<ref>Jalava, Mirko (2013-03-07). [http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/dong-bin-leads-the-way-as-indoor-records-tumb Dong Bin leads the way as indoor records tumble in Nanjing]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-03-17.</ref> Sakirkin's Asian outdoor record (17.35&nbsp;m, set at the [[Brothers Znamensky Memorial]]) stood from 1994 to 2009.  He set 17 Kazakh national records starting from 17.02 m up to the current record of 17.58 m.  He also competed at the 2000 Olympics without reaching the final.

Sakirkin died on March 18, 2015. He was 49.<ref>[http://otyrar.kz/2015/03/ushel-iz-zhizni-zvezda-sovetskogo-i-kazaxstanskogo-sporta-oleg-sakirkin/#Link Ушел из жизни звезда советского и казахстанского спорта Олег Сакиркин] {{kz icon}}</ref>

==International competitions==
{| {{AchievementTable}}
|-
!colspan="5"|Representing {{URS}}
|-
|1987
|[[1987 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Rome, Italy]]
|bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd
|
|-
|1988
|[[1988 European Indoor Championships in Athletics|European Indoor Championships]]
|[[Budapest, Hungary]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1989
|[[1989 European Cup (athletics)|European Cup]]
|[[Budapest, Hungary]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|
|-
|[[Athletics at the 1989 Summer Universiade|World Student Games]]
|[[Duisburg]], [[West Germany]]
|bgcolor="silver" | 2nd
|
|-
|1990
|[[1990 European Indoor Championships in Athletics|European Indoor Championships]]
|[[Glasgow]], United Kingdom
|bgcolor="silver" | 2nd
|
|-
!colspan="5"|Representing {{KAZ}}
|-
|rowspan=2|1993
|[[Athletics at the 1993 Summer Universiade|World Student Games]]
|[[Buffalo, United States]]
|bgcolor="silver" | 2nd
|
|-
|[[1993 Asian Athletics Championships|Asian Championships]]
|[[Manila, Philippines]]
|bgcolor="silver" | 2nd
|
|-
|rowspan=4|1994
|[[Athletics at the 1994 Goodwill Games|Goodwill Games]]
|[[St. Petersburg, Russia]]
|bgcolor="silver" | 2nd
|
|-
|[[1994 IAAF Grand Prix Final|Grand Prix Final]]
|[[Paris, France]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|
|-
|[[1994 IAAF World Cup|World Cup]]
|[[London]], United Kingdom
|bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd
|
|-
|[[Athletics at the 1994 Asian Games|Asian Games]]
|[[Hiroshima, Japan]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|
|-
|1995
|[[Athletics at the 1995 Central Asian Games|Central Asian Games]]
|[[Tashkent, Uzbekistan]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|
|-
|1999
|[[Athletics at the 1999 Central Asian Games|Central Asian Games]]
|[[Bishkek]], [[Kyrgyzstan]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|
|}

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:1966 births]]
[[Category:2015 deaths]]
[[Category:Kazakhstani male triple jumpers]]
[[Category:Soviet male triple jumpers]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes of Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Asian Games competitors for Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games]]
[[Category:World Championships in Athletics athletes for the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:World Championships in Athletics medalists]]


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