His personal best jump is 8.29 metres, achieved in May 2007 in Sochi.
Early in his career he was also a pole vaulter achieving a personal best vault of 5.60m before focusing solely on the long jump.
He finished seventh at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and at the 2006 IAAF World Cup.
An ethnic Tatar from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, he is the younger brother of pole vaulter Rodion Gataullin.
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