Valeriy Spitsyn

Valeri Anatoljevich Spizyn (Russian Валерий Анатольевич Спицын, English letters Valeriy Spitsyn, . Born December 5, 1965 in Magnitogorsk ) is a retired Russian mountaineers, who in his sport in 1994 became European Champion.

1992 Spizyn master the Commonwealth of Independent States. At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 won his teammate Andrei Perlow. Behind the Mexican Carlos Mercenary and the German Ronald Weigel took Spizyn after 3:54:39 ​​hours to fourth place.

A year later Spizyn won at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart in 1993 bronze. Jesús Ángel García Behind the Spaniards and the Finn Valentin Kononen he crossed the finish line after 3:42:50 hours. The European Athletics Championships 1994, he won in 3:41:07 hours with two and a half minutes ahead of Frenchman Thierry Toutain.

After he was disqualified at the 1995 World Cup, Spizyn did not occur for several years internationally in appearance. In the championship of Russia on 21 May 2000 Spizyn won in Moscow in world best time of 3:37:26 hours. He had qualified for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. There, however, Spizyn gave up on the track.

Valeri Spizyn is 1,78 m tall and weighed about 67 kg competition times.