page_title: Vadim Devyatovskiy
hierarchical_section_title: Vadim Devyatovskiy
caption_attribution_description: World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka - Vadim Devyatovskiy
context_page_description: Vadim Anatolyevich Devyatovskiy is a Belarusian hammer thrower.
  He finished fourth at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and in 2005 he won the World Championships silver medal. In July the same year he threw 84.90 metres, which currently is his personal best. He originally won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but was later taken away for doping, but reinstated afterwards.
  Since 2008 he is a coach of Estonian hammer thrower Ellina Anissimova.
  On 21 August 2020, during the 2020 Belarusian protests against the government of Alexander Lukashenko, Devyatovskiy posted a message on his Facebook page in which he stated that "Lukashenko is not my President!!!!!" and stated that his previous support for the regime was a "delusion" and "betrayal of myself".
context_section_description: Vadim Anatolyevich Devyatovskiy (Belarusian: Вадзі́м Анато́левіч Дзевято́ўскі, Vadzim Anatolyevich Dzevyatowski, Łacinka: Vadzim Anatołjevič Dzieviatoŭski, Russian: Вади́м Анато́льевич Девято́вский; born March 20, 1977 in Navapołacak, Belarusian SSR, USSR) is a Belarusian hammer thrower.
  He finished fourth at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and in 2005 he won the World Championships silver medal. In July the same year he threw 84.90 metres, which currently is his personal best. He originally won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but was later taken away for doping, but reinstated afterwards.
  Since 2008 he is a coach of Estonian hammer thrower Ellina Anissimova.
  On 21 August 2020, during the 2020 Belarusian protests against the government of Alexander Lukashenko, Devyatovskiy posted a message on his Facebook page in which he stated that "Lukashenko is not my President!!!!!" and stated that his previous support for the regime was a "delusion" and "betrayal of myself".
caption: Vadim Devyatovskiy at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka
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