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Andrei Krauchanka

Andrei Krauchanka
Andrei Krauchanka Paris 2011.jpg
Krauchanka at the 2011 European Indoor Championships
Medal record
Representing  Belarus
Men's athletics
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing Decathlon
World Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place 2008 Valencia Heptathlon
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sopot Heptathlon
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Zürich Decathlon
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Barcelona Decathlon
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Paris Heptathlon
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Birmingham Heptathlon
World Youth Championships
Silver medal – second place 2003 Sherbrooke Octathlon

Andrei Sergeyevich Krauchanka (Belarusian: Андрэй Сяргеевіч Краўчанка; also transliterated as Andrey Kravchenko) (born 4 January 1986) is a Belarusian decathlete. He was the silver medallist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. His personal best score of 8617 points is the Belarusian record for the event. He also holds the national indoor record in the heptathlon with 6282 points.

Krauchanka was a talented combined events athlete from a young age: he broke the world youth best for the octathlon and was runner-up at the 2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics. He became the European and World Junior champion in the decathlon before emerging as a senior in 2007, when he won the bronze medal at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships and set his best of 8617 to win the Hypo-Meeting.

Two silver medals on the global stage came in 2008, first at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships and then at the Olympics in Beijing. Injuries affected his performances from 2009 to 2012, although he managed to win bronze at the 2010 European Athletics Championships and gold at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships during that time.


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