Igors Kazanovs

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Igors Kazanovs ( Russian Игорь Яковлевич Казанов , Igor Jakowlewitsch Kazanow ; born September 24, 1963 in Daugavpils ) is a former Latvian hurdler , whose specialty was the 110-meter distance .

Starting for the Soviet Union , he was fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Rome in 1987 and won bronze over 60 m hurdles at the 1989 World Indoor Athletics Championships in Budapest. In 1990 he won gold over 60 m at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow and reached the final at the European Athletics Championships in Split , in which, however, he did not reach the goal. In 1991 he won silver in the 60 m hurdles at the World Indoor Championships in Seville and was eliminated in the semifinals of the World Championships in Tokyo .

As a representative of Latvia, he defended his title at the 1992 European Indoor Championships in Genoa and reached the semi-finals at the Olympic Games in Barcelona . The following year he was fifth in the 60 m hurdles at the World Indoor Championships in Toronto and sixth at the World Championships in Stuttgart .

While he did not get past the semi-finals at his last major outdoor championships, the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg and the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, he won two further European championship titles indoors at the European Indoor Championships in Stockholm in 1996 and at the 1998 European Indoor Championships in Valencia.

Kazanovs is married and has two daughters.

Personal bests

  • 50 m hurdles (hall): 6.48 s, February 12, 1992, Budapest
  • 60 m hurdles (hall): 7.42 s, February 25, 1989, Moscow
  • 110 m hurdles: 13.26 s, August 19, 1993, Stuttgart

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Vladimir Ivanov: Игорь Казанов: "Медали и титулы ... Это было в другой жизни". Часть II on telegraf.lv (Russian)