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Denis Viktorovich Kapustin
Денис Капустин
Birth at
31 August 1998
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Denis Kapustin became interested in sports as a child, not even assuming that it would become a matter of his whole life for him. His sporting fate was very successful, and today, despite the end of his career, he continues to do his favorite thing - athletics. He was born in Kazan on October 5, 1970. Since 1992, the promising young athlete was included in the national athletics team, and the following year, after going to his debut world championship in Stuttgart, he took sixth place there in the
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Denis Kapustin became interested in sports as a child, not even assuming that it would become a matter of his whole life for him. His sporting fate was very successful, and today, despite the end of his career, he continues to do his favorite thing - athletics.
He was born in Kazan on October 5, 1970. Since 1992, the promising young athlete was included in the national athletics team, and the following year, after going to his debut world championship in Stuttgart, he took sixth place there in the triple jump. In 1994, the year in his treasury of awards got European gold – Kapustin performed well at the championship in Helsinki. Budapest silver was added to this gold four years later.
For the Olympics in Sydney, Denis Viktorovich came not in his best form, he was not ranked among the favorites of the tournament. However, the athlete left behind almost all his rivals, eventually becoming third. After this long-awaited bronze, Kapustin announced his retirement from the sport, and now coaches the athletics team of Tatarstan, being its head coach.