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 )