Ivan Pavlovich Belyayev

Ivan Pavlovich Belyayev (Russian: Иван Павлович Беляев, English transcription: Ivan Pavlovich Belyayev, born February 8, 1935 in Kharkiv ) is a former Ukrainian track and field athlete, who competed for the Soviet Union. He was third in the 1964 Olympic 3,000-meter steeplechase.

Belyayev won at the Soviet Championships in 1964 steeplechase in 8:35,4 minutes with two tenths of a second ahead of three other runners. With this success, he qualified for the Soviet team at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. There he took the first lead in 8:42,0 minutes behind the Portuguese Manuel de Oliveira took second place; in the second heat, the Briton Maurice Herriott improved the Olympic record at 8:33,0 minutes Belyayev Lithuanian teammate Adolfas Aleksejūnas undercutting in the third lead in 8:31,8 minutes Herriotts record. In the final, the Belgian world record holder Gaston Roelants certain from the beginning to the action and solved at an early stage from the rest of the field. Roelants won in 8:30,8 minutes ago Herriott and Belyayev, who won bronze in front of Oliveira in 8:33,8 minutes.

In 1965 Belyayev his personal best of 8:29,6 minutes on, but at the Soviet Championship, he finished in 8:50,4 minutes only fourth place. In 1967 he was again third championship. At a height of 1.78 meters his competition weight was 67 kilograms. Belyayev started for Avangard Dnipropetrovsk.