Vladimir Muravyov (athlete)
Vladimir Pavlovich Murawjow (Russian: Владимир Павлович Муравьёв, English transcription Vladimir Muravyov, . Born September 30, 1959 in Karaganda, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic ) is a former Soviet sprinter.
He is one of only three runners, who succeeded in the 4 x 100 - meter relay to be twice Olympic champion. The other two are the American Frank Wykoff (1928-1936 Season three gold) and Carl Lewis (1984 and 1992). Vladimir Murawjow was one of the best runners in the second curve at all.
Career
Murawjow was the 1983 Soviet champion over 200 meters and 1985 and 1987 more than 100 m.
At the Olympic Games in 1980, the sprinter from the United States were due to the Olympic boycott not at the start. Vladimir was Murawjow s sixth of the finals over 100m in 10.44. The relay in the statement Vladimir Murawjow, Nikolai Sidorov, Alexander Aksinin and Andrei Prokofiev won the 4 x 100 -meter final in 38.26 seconds before Poland, France, Great Britain and the GDR.
In the Indoor Athletics Championships 1981 in Grenoble Murawjow won in 5.76 s silver over 50 meters behind Poland's Marian Woronin, and at the European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, he was in 20.76 s seventh over 200 m. The Soviet relay was European champion without Murawjow.
At the World Athletics Championships 1983 in Helsinki Murawjow eliminated in the 200-meter semifinals. The Soviet team in the cast Prokofiev, Sidorov, Murawjow and Viktor Bryshin won in 38.41 s of the team from the USA, which ran s world record with 37.86 Bronze behind Italy ( silver in 38.37 s ) and.
Through the Olympic boycott in 1984 Murawjow could in the years 1984 and 1985 internationally only participate in the European Cup and World Cup, he was in 1985 with the season third in the World Cup.
The European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart gave Murawjow the chance to catch up on missed 1982 season title. After he was eliminated in the semifinals in the 100 meters, he ran in the relay in the second corner a usual strong race. In the preparation Alexander Jewgenjew, Nikolai Juschmanow, Murawjow and Viktor Bryshin the squadron won in 38.29 seconds before the wide underlying GDR relay that won silver in 38.64 s.
At the World Athletics Championships 1987 in Rome Murawjow difference of more than 100 m in the quarterfinals. The Soviet team won silver in 38.02 seconds behind the baton from the United States. In the occupation Jewgenjew, Bryshin, Murawjow and Vladimir Krylov -cage rotor as the Soviet squadron was long in the lead, but ultimately Carl Lewis could yet go by as Krylov -cage rotor.
At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul Murawjow did not start in a single competition. In the sprint relay, the U.S. relay lost already in the flow the rod, whereby the output of the finale was open again. In 38.19 seconds, the Soviet Union won ahead of Great Britain and France. Behind Brysgin, Krylov and Murawjow ran Vitaly Sawin as cage rotor.
Vladimir Murawjow is 1,78 m tall and weighed 74 kg in his playing days.
Bests
- 50 m (Hall ): 5.73 s, February 21, 1981, Grenoble
- 100 m: 10.20 s, July 9, 1986, Moscow
- 200 m: 20.34 s, August 18, 1984, Moscow