Vyacheslav Voronin

Vyacheslav Voronin

Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Voronin (born April 5, 1974 in Vladikavkaz) is a Russian athlete, who specializes in the high jump.

Voronin is a World Champion (1999) and European Indoor Champion (2000). His personal best is 2.40 metres, set in London in August 2000. He competed in Athens 2004 and Helsinki 2005, but did not win medals in either. He is the only jumper to have cleared 2.40 metres outdoors since Javier Sotomayor. Indoors this has also been achieved by Stefan Holm and Ivan Ukhov.