Dmitri Igorevich Shevchenko
Dmitri Igorewitsch Shevchenko ( Russian Дмитрий Игоревич Шевченко , English transcription Dmitriy Shevchenko ; born May 13, 1968 in Taganrog ) is a former Russian discus thrower .
After he was seventh at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in 1991 as a representative of the Soviet Union and eighth at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , starting for the CIS United Team , he won silver at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart and at the European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki.
Shortly after his eighth place at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg, he was tested positive for metandienone during a doping control and was suspended for two years for this violation of the doping regulations . The biochemist and doping investigator Manfred Donike commented: "What you tell yourself in the scene is mostly true."
After an out of qualification at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, he finished eleventh at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, he was fourth at the European Championships in 2002 in Munich and sixth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis tenth. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he was eliminated without a valid attempt.
He was Russian champion six times after having won the Soviet title in 1991. He achieved his furthest throw with 70.54 m on May 7, 2002 in Krasnodar .
Dmitri Shevchenko is 2.00 m tall and weighed 140 kg when he was active.
Web links
- Dmitriy Shevchenko in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Dmitry Shevchenko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 2, 1995 (quoted in Andreas Singler & Gerhard Treutlein: Doping in top-class sport. Sports-scientific analyzes of national and international performance development. 3rd revised edition. Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89899-192-6 , p . 76)
- ↑ gbrathletics: Russian Championships
- ^ Gbrathletics: Soviet Championships
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Shevchenko, Dmitri Igorewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Шевченко, Дмитрий Игоревич; Shevchenko, Dmitriy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian discus thrower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Taganrog |