Vasiliy Grishchenkov (born January 23 1958) is a retired triple jumper from the Soviet Union best known for winning the silver medal at the 1982 European Championships in Athens Greece. He set the world's best year performance in 1983 with a leap of 17.55 metres (personal best) achieved on June 19 1983 in Moscow. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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