Viktor Burayev
Viktor Mikhailovich Burajew (Russian Виктор Михайлович Бураев, English transcription Viktor Burayev, . Born August 23, 1982 in Penza) is a Russian -goers.
In 2000, he presented with 38:46,4 min the current (as of September 2009) junior world record in the 10,000 m Track Walk on and won the bronze medal in the same discipline at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Santiago de Chile.
His greatest success to date, he celebrated by winning the bronze medal at the World Athletics Championships 2001 in competition over 20 km of walking: Add 1:20:36 h, the then 18 -year-old Burajew just had his countryman Roman Rasskasow in a tight race ( 1:20:31 h ) and the derived also from Russia defending champion Ilya Markov ( 1:20:33 h ) admit defeat.
At the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2002 occupied Burajew - coinciding with the third Juan Manuel Molina - as well as fourth place four years later at the European Championships in Gothenburg, when he missed the bronze medal by three seconds. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, he finished 22nd place.
On 4 April 2008 he tested positive for rh- EPO in a doping control. He was then banned for doping for two years.
Viktor Burajew is 1,72 m tall and weighs 59 kg.