Yuriy Borzakovskiy
Yuri Mikhailovich Borzakovsky (Russian Юрий Михайлович Борзаковский, English transcription Yuriy Borzakovskiy, . Born April 12, 1981 in Kratovo in Moscow ) is a Russian middle distance runner and Olympic champion.
Career
He was European Junior Champion in the 800 -meter run in 1999. At the European Indoor Championships in 2000 in Ghent, he won in 1:47,92 min before the German Nils Schumann in 1:48,41 min. In Sydney at the Olympic Games in 2000 he reached the final and was in 1:45,83 min sixth.
At the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon in 2001, he won in 1:44,49 minutes by almost two seconds ahead of the South African Johan Botha. At the 2002 European Championships in Munich, he stepped up to not more than 800 meters. As a finisher of the Russian team in the 4 x 400 - meter relay but he secured his team the silver medal behind the British.
In Paris / Saint- Denis at the 2003 World Championships Borzakovsky was back in a 800 -meter final. As so often, he ran the first lap in last place, to then on the final backstretch to run into position and tighten his sprint. In Saint- Denis he reached the Algerian Djabir Saïd - Guernica not quite. Borzakovsky won in 1:44,84 min silver with three hundredths of a second behind Saïd - Guernica and six hundredths of a second ahead of third-placed South Africans Mbulaeni Mulaudzi.
His greatest triumph he achieved at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, when he was in 1:44,64 minutes ago Mulaudzi and Olympic champion Wilson Kipketer from Denmark. At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005, he was as in Paris runner-up. In 1:44,51 min, it was significantly behind Rashid Ramzi of Bahrain, who won in 1:44,24 min.
Before the home crowd the World Indoor Championships in Moscow in 2006 could Borzakovsky in a sprint the Kenyan Wilfred Bungei and the South Africans Mulaudzi not catch. Borzakovsky won in 1:47,38 min bronze.
Also he won bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. In 1:47,39 min although he had 0.3 seconds behind the winner Alfred Kirwa Yego, but the distance of 0.19 seconds for the Eighth of the finale shows that Borzakovsky old showed strength in the sprint.
In 2008 he resigned unexpectedly at the Olympic Games in Beijing in third place of his semifinal run out, after he had made this year with a time of 1:42,79 min his best to prove. In 2009, he won the title at the European Indoor Championships in Turin and finished fourth at the World Championships in Berlin. Two years later he won another bronze medal at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu. After Borzakovsky had never competed at the European Championships so far on the 800 - meter track, he won the European Championships in 2012 the title in a pure track separation.
At a height of 1.82 m his competition weight is 72 kg. Most of his success he achieved by the fact that he ran into the back of the first round and avoided any fights for positions. On the last 300 meters he sprinted then all or nearly all competitors. His ability to in doubt also can run with fast start times, makes him hardly predictable for his opponents.
Personal Best
- 400 m: 45.84 s, July 24, 2000, Tula Hall: 47,06 s, January 19, 2008 Moscow
- Hall: 1:44,15 min, January 27, 2001, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Hall: 2:17,10 min, February 1, 2009, Moscow
- Hall: 3:41,53 min 17 February, 2006, Moscow
Russian championship
- 800 m: 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011
- 1500 m: 2005, 2007, 2008