Education
Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sport, Youth and Tourism.
Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sport, Youth and Tourism.
He trained at Dynamo in Moscow.
He competed for the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Vladimir Lovetskiy, Juris Silovs and Valeriy Borzov. Kornelyuk also won a 50 m silver medal at the 1972 European Indoor Championships behind his teammate Borzov. In 1972 Kornelyuk was awarded the Medal Foreign Labour Heroism.
Kornelyuk began athletics in 1963 and became a member of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics National Team in 1970.