Alexander Timofejewitsch Aksinin

Alexander Timofejewitsch Aksinin ( Russian Александр Тимофеевич Аксинин ; English Aleksandr Aksinin ; born November 4, 1954 in Leningrad , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ; † July 28, 2020 ) was a Soviet athlete and Olympic champion . With a height of 1.73 m, his competition weight was 67 kg.

Alexander Aksinin made his first major international appearance at the European Championships in Rome in 1974 when he finished fourth in 39.03 seconds with the Soviet 4 x 100 meter relay , four hundredths of a second behind the relay from the GDR in 3rd place At the European Indoor Championships in 1975 in Katowice, he finished second over 60 meters in 6.67 seconds behind his relay colleague Valery Borsow .

In 1976 at the Olympic Games in Montreal, Aksinin failed in the 100-meter run in the semifinals. The Soviet Union was represented in the final with the squadron in the line-up of Alexander Aksinin, Nikolai Kolesnikow , Juris Silovs and Valery Borsov and won bronze in 38.78 seconds behind the squadrons from the United States and the GDR.

At the European Indoor Championships in Milan in 1978, Aksinin won bronze in 6.73 seconds. Outdoors at the 1978 European Championships , Aksinin finished seventh in the 200-meter run in 20.87 seconds. The Soviet relay won bronze with Aksinin as the third runner in 38.82 seconds, four hundredths of a second behind the GDR, while the Poles were clearly ahead. At the European Indoor Championships in 1979 in Vienna, Aksinin finished fourth in 6.66 seconds. A year later in Sindelfingen he won bronze in 6.63 seconds.

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, the sprinters from the United States were not at the start because of the Olympic boycott . Alexander Aksinin was in the 100-meter final and finished 4th in 10.42 seconds. In the relay, the line-up of Vladimir Muravyov , Nikolai Sidorov , Alexander Aksinin and Andrei Prokofiev , won the final in 38.26 seconds, ahead of Poland, France, Great Britain and the GDR.

These five seasons were also the favorites at the 1982 European Championships in Athens. The season of the Soviet Union with the line-up of Sergei Sokolow , Aksinin, Prokofjew and Sidorow won the European championship title in 38.60 seconds ahead of the two seasons from the GDR (silver) and FRG (bronze), which were simultaneous with 38.71 seconds.

Alexander Aksinin was the Soviet champion over 200 meters in 1976.

Best times

• 100 meters: 10.26 seconds (1980)
• 200 meters: 20.80 seconds (1980)

literature

• ATFS (ed): USSR Athletics Statistics , London 1988
• Ekkehard zur Megede : The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics , Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV

Web links

• Alexander Timofejewitsch Aksinin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )