Dmitri Sergeyevich Tarabin

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Dmitri Sergejewitsch Tarabin ( Russian Дмитрий Сергеевич Тарабин , English transcription Dmitriy Tarabin ; born October 29, 1991 in Berlin ) is a Russian javelin thrower .

As the son of an officer , he spent the first years of his life in Germany. When he was six years old, his family moved to Transnistria . From an early age he had tried a number of sports and was particularly successful in baseball . His talent for throwing balls extremely far led him to throw a javelin.

At the European Athletics Team Championships in 2009 , he won for the Republic of Moldova in the third division. As a dual Moldovan-Russian citizen, after he had started studying sports in Moscow after graduating from school, he decided to start for Russia in the future.

From July 10, 2010 he was eligible to start for Russia, and soon afterwards he won bronze at the Junior World Championships in Monckton .

In 2011 he was third at the U23 European Championships in Ostrava and tenth at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu . After he was handicapped by an injury at the Russian championships in 2012 and was then not nominated for the Olympic Games in London, 2013 was an extraordinarily successful year: after victories at the European Athletics Team Championships in 2013 and the Universiade in Kazan , he became on July 24th in Moscow with his personal best of 88.84 m Russian champion. At the World Championships in Moscow he won the bronze medal with 86.23 m.

Dmitri Tarabin is 1.82 m tall and weighs 94 kg. He lives in Krasnodar and is trained by Mikhail Michejew. He has been married to Marija Abakumova , the 2011 javelin world champion, since autumn 2012 .

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SURNAME Tarabin, Dmitri Sergeyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Тарабин, Дмитрий Сергеевич; Tarabin, Dmitriy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian javelin thrower
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin