medaltemplates article_title birth_date
men 's athletics leonid shcherbakov
 1927-04-07
leonid shcherbakov

leonid mikhailovich shcherbakov -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- born 7 april 1927 -rrb- was a soviet athlete who competed mainly in the triple jump .
born in olebino , yaroslavl oblast , he trained at dynamo in moscow .
he competed for the ussr in the 1952 summer olympics held in helsinki , finland in the triple jump where he won the silver medal .
in 1953 he broke the world record in the triple jump .
in 1987 he made the iaaf top 10 performers in the triple jump of all time .
