Dmitriy Tarabin

Dmitry Sergeyevich Tarabin (Russian Дмитрий Сергеевич Тарабин, English transcription Dmitriy Tarabin, . Born 29 October 1991 in Berlin ) is a Russian javelin thrower.

As the son of an officer, he spent his early years in Germany. When he was six years old, his family moved to Transnistria. From early on, he had tried his hand at a number of sports and was particularly successful in baseball. His talent to be able to throw balls very far, led him to the javelin.

At the Track Team Championships 2009, he won for Moldova in the third division. As a dual Moldovan - Russian citizen, he decided after he started a sports studies after leaving school in Moscow, in the future to start for Russia.

From 10 July 2010, he was allowed to start for Russia, and soon after he won the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Monckton.

In 2011 he was third in the U23 European Championships in Ostrava and tenth at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu. After only 2012 has been handicapped by an injury at the Russian Championships in fourth and was therefore not nominated for the Olympic Games in London, followed by an extremely successful year 2013: After victories in the track and field team championship in 2013 and the Universiade in Kazan he was on July 24 in Moscow with his personal best jump of 88.84 m Russian master. At the World Championships in Moscow he won the bronze medal with 86.23 meters.

Dmitri Tarabin is 1,82 m tall and weighs 94 kg. He lives in Krasnodar and is coached by Mikhail Mikheev. Since the autumn of 2012, he is with Marija Abakumowa, the javelin world champion in 2011, married.