Continent hopping (trivia)

[Powell]

Name an athlete who won a silver medal in the European Championships and 13 years later became the Asian champion.

[bf]

Re: Continent hopping (trivia)

Abduvaliyev?,or one of those east-SovU hammerthrowers?

[Powell]

Re: Continent hopping (trivia)

Nope

[Rob]

Re: Continent hopping (trivia)

..

[gh]

Re: Continent hopping (trivia)

Ignoring the silliness of Europe and Asia being separate continents in the first place, what w/ Russia and Kazakhstan sharing what, about a thousand miles of common border?

[Powell]

Re: Continent hopping (trivia)

>Grigoriy Yegorov.

He won a Silver in the Pole Vault at the 1990 European
>Championships in Split, representing the former USSR and a Gold in the same
>event at the 2003 Asian Championships in Manila, representing Kazakhstan.

That's the right answer