Igor Nikulin

Who is Igor Nikulin?

Igor Nikulin is a former 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.

One of the most remarkable performances in all of hammer throwing is Igor Nikulin's U23 world record of 83.54 m set 1982-09-02 in Athína, which then was good enough to put him 2nd in the world through all time behind Sergey Litvinov on 83.98 m. His personal best of 84.48 m was set on July 12, 1990 in Lausanne currently putting him 7th through all time. Nikulin's father Yury finished fourth at the men's hammer throw at the 1964 Summer Olympics.