Ivan Byelyayev
Ivan Pawlowytsch Byelyaev ( Ukrainian Іван Павлович Бєляєв , Russian Иван Павлович Беляев Ivan Pavlovich Belyayev ; English transcription: Ivan Pavlovich Belyayev * 8. February 1935 in Kharkiv ) is a former Ukrainian athlete who for the Soviet Union took. In 1964 he became Olympic third in the 3000-meter obstacle course .
Bjeljajew won the obstacle course at the Soviet championships in 1964 in 8: 35.4 minutes with two tenths of a second ahead of three other runners. With this success he qualified for the Soviet team at the Olympic Games in Tokyo . There he finished second in the first run in 8: 42.0 minutes behind the Portuguese Manuel de Oliveira ; In the second run, the Briton Maurice Herriott improved the Olympic record to 8: 33.0 min, Bjeljajew's Lithuanian teammate Adolfas Aleksejūnas undercut Herriott's record in the third run in 8: 31.8 min. In the final, the Belgian world record holder Gaston Roelants determined the action from the start and broke away from the rest of the field early on. Roelants won in 8: 30.8 minutes ahead of Herriott and Bjeljajew, who won bronze in 8: 33.8 minutes ahead of Oliveira.
In 1965 Bjeljajew set his personal best of 8: 29.6 minutes, but at the Soviet championships he only finished fourth in 8: 50.4 minutes. In 1967 he was again third in the championship. With a height of 1.78 m, his competition weight was 67 kg. Bjeljajew started for Avangard Dnipropetrovsk .
literature
- ATFS (Ed.): USSR Athletics Statistics . London 1988
- Ekkehard zur Megede: The History of Olympic Athletics. 2nd volume 1948-1968 . Bartels & Wernitz Berlin 1969
Web links
- Iwan Bjeljajew in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
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SURNAME | Byelyayev, Ivan |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bjeljajew, Ivan Pavlovych (full name); Бєляєв, Іван Павлович (Ukrainian-Cyrillic); Beljajew, Ivan Pavlovich (Russian-Latin); Беляев, Иван Павлович (Russian-Cyrillic); Belyayev, Ivan Pavlovich (English transcription) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet-Ukrainian athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1935 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kharkiv |