Anatoly Wassiljewitsch Starostin

Anatoli Starostin medal table
Modern pentathlon
Soviet Union , CIS
Olympic games
gold	Moscow 1980	singles
gold	Moscow 1980	team
silver	Barcelona 1992	team

Anatoli Wassiljewitsch Starostin ( Russian Анатолий Васильевич Старостин ; born  January 18, 1960 in Stalinabad ) is a former Soviet athlete who was active in the modern pentathlon .

At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, he won a gold medal in modern pentathlon both in individual competitions and with a team, making him the youngest Olympic champion in the history of this sport. Twelve years later, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona , he won a silver medal in team competition with the United Team of the Commonwealth of Independent States . In the individual competition he was fourth in these games.

Three years after his two-time Olympic victory, he was also world champion and vice-world champion in individual competitions in 1982, 1985 and 1990. With the Soviet team, he took first place at the World Championships in 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1990, as well as second place in 1989 and third place in 1979. In 1989 he was also European champion with the team.

His individual victory at the 1986 World Championships was stripped from him due to a doping test that was positive for beta blockers . In addition, he was banned for 30 months.

Web links

Commons : Anatoli Starostin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Anatoli Starostin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anatoli Wassiljewitsch Starostin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
2. ↑ Rudi Trost: 100 years of modern pentathlon Olympic: From father & founder to the French Baron Pierre de Coubertin to the savior, the German Dr. Klaus Schormann . Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3898998970 , p. 73