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He also finished in third place at the national championships in 1971 and 1972.
hammer thrower athletics competitor
He also finished in third place at the national championships in 1971 and 1972.
Khmelevskiy was born and raised in Belarus, but later moved to Stavropol, Russia while serving in the Soviet Army. There he graduated from the Stavropol Pedagogical Institute. In 1972 he was awarded the Medal "Foreign Distinguished Labour".
After retirement from competitions, Khmelevskiy fell into depression and became a heavy drinker.
On 30 December 1979, he set on fire, for a joke, a masqueraded person during a celebration in Minsk and was charged with Hooliganism. The trial and five-year jail sentence broke him.
He died from heart failure in 2002.
He began training in athletics in 1963 and became a member of the Soviet team in 1970.