Please answer the following question: Konstantin Yuryevich Volkov (Russian: Константин Юрьевич Волков) (born February 28 1960 in Irkutsk) is a retired pole vaulter. 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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Athlete