Viktor Markin

Viktor Fyodorovich Markin (Russian Виктор Фёдорович Маркин, English transcription Viktor Markin, . Born February 27, 1957 in near Novosibirsk ) is a former Soviet sprinter and Olympic champion whose special route was the 400 -meter run.

Markin began training in athletics at the age of 19 years, and up to the Olympic Games in Moscow, he was internationally known. On April 27, 1980, he ran a personal best in Sochi of 46.96 s Shortly before the games he improved his time to 45.34 s

In the finals of the 400-meter run at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, he was after half the distance in fifth place, and at the start of the home straight he was only about three meters behind the leader Frank Schaffer from the GDR. With a great final spurt he overtook them, won the gold medal and set a European record. Silver reached the Australian Rick Mitchell and Frank Schaffer it was enough only for the bronze medal. His second victory was the gold medal in the 4 x 400 - meter relay, along with his teammates Remigijus Valiulis, Mikhail Linge and Nikolai Tschernezki, before the teams from East Germany ( silver) and from Italy ( bronze).

After games, Markin adopted for the time being from the Athletics to complete his medical studies. In 1982, he also returned at the European Athletics Championships in Athens and won bronze in both the 400m and in the 4 x 400 - meter relay. At the World Athletics Championships 1983 in Helsinki, he won another gold medal in the 400 - meter relay. His sporting career he finished, when the Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

List of Olympic champion in athletics

1912: Mel Sheppard, Edward Lindberg, Ted Meredith, Charles Reidpath | 1920: Cecil Griffiths, Robert Lindsay, John Ainsworth -Davis, Guy Butler | 1924 Commodore Cochran, William Stevenson, Oliver MacDonald, Alan Helffrich | 1928: George Baird, Emerson Spencer, Fred Alderman, Ray Barbuti | 1932: Ivan Fuqua, Edgar Ablowich, Karl Warner, Bill Carr | 1936: Freddie Wolff, Godfrey Rampling, Bill Roberts, Godfrey Brown | 1948: Arthur Harnden, Cliff Bourland, Roy Cochran, Mal Whitfield | 1952: Arthur Wint, Leslie Laing, Herb McKenley, George Rhoden | 1956: Charles Jenkins, Lou Jones, Jesse Mashburn, Tom Courtney | 1960: Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis, Otis Davis | 1964: Ollan Cassell, Mike Larrabee, Ulis Williams, Henry Carr | 1968: Vince Matthews, Ron Freeman, Larry James, Lee Evans | 1972: Charles Asati, Munyoro Nyamau, Robert Ouko, Julius Sang | 1976: Herman Frazier, Benny Brown, Fred Newhouse, Maxie parks | 1980: Remigijus Valiulis, Mikhail Linge, Nikolai Tschernezki, Viktor Markin | 1984: Sunder Nix, Ray Armstead, Alonzo Babers, Antonio McKay | 1988: Danny Everett, Steve Lewis, Kevin Robinzine, Harry Reynolds | 1992: Andrew Valmont, Quincy Watts, Michael Johnson Steve Lewis | 1996: Alvin Harrison, LaMont Smith, Derek Mills, Anthuan Maybank | 2000: Udo- Obong Enefiok, Clement Chukwu, Jew Monye, Sunday Bada | 2004: Otis Harris, Derrick Brew Jeremy Wariner, Darold Williamson | 2008: LaShawn Merritt, Angelo Taylor, David Neville, Jeremy Wariner | 2012: Chris Brown, Demetrius Pinder, Michael Mathieu, Ramon Miller

List of Olympic champion in athletics

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Olympic gold medalist ( Athletics )
World Champion ( athletics)
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Born in 1957

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