Leonid Pumalainen is a retired Russia

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He finished fifth at the 1994 European Indoor Championships

1994 European Indoor Championships in Athletics

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, seventh at the 1994 European Championships

1994 European Championships in Athletics

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, and won a bronze medal at the 1994 Goodwill Games

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 behind Javier Sotomayor

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 and Hollis Conway

Hollis Conway

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. In 1996 he won the silver medal at the European Indoor Championships

1996 European Indoor Championships in Athletics

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 in Stockholm

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 with a jump of 2.33 metres.

Pumalainen became Russian high jump champion in 1994. Rivals around this time include Aleksey Yemelin

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, Grigoriy Fedorkov and Aleksey Denisov. He also became indoor champion in 1996.

His personal best outdoors was 2.30 metres, achieved in July 1995 in Eberstadt

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Indoors, his 2.33 metres was a personal best.