Kazakstan decathlon all-time list (2)

Hamalainen 7891 Kyiv 19890820 was under Kazakstan according Hubbeling in his Asian Athletics book 2000 . It's right ?

You’ve got it right, he started out under Kazakhstan indeed. But the problem is that I’ve got no idea when he began competing for Belorussia. It’s certain that in 1987 he wasn’t competing for Belorussia yet. But after that year things get more complicated and I really don’t know what to think.

As for the competition you mentioned, then Eduard Hämäläinen couldn’t have competed for Kazakhstan at that meeting because it was a match between the Soviet Union and the UK. In the lists of the Soviet Union (compiled by Ants Teder), he represents the army, the town Karaganda. So, from one point of view one could actually add his scores of 1989 to the lists of Kazakhstan.

However, in 1991 he was definitely a European already