Jakow Grigoryevich Tolstikov

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Jakow Grigorjewitsch Tolstikow ( Russian Яков Григорьевич Толстиков , English transcription Yakov Tolstikov ; born May 20, 1959 in Prokopjewsk ) is a former Russian marathon runner .

In 1979 he ran his first marathon in 2:25 hours. The following year he improved to 2:15:38. In 1984 he set the current course record at the Moscow Marathon with 2:10:48 h. In 1987, when he first started abroad, he was eleventh at the World Athletics Championships in Rome and eighth in the Fukuoka Marathon . In 1988 he became the Soviet marathon champion in Tallinn , finished ninth in the European Marathon Cup and set a national record in second in the Chicago Marathon with 2:09:20. In 1989 he was runner-up in the Beppu-Ōita marathon . The following year he was sixth in the London Marathon and started at the European Athletics Championships in Split , but did not reach the goal.

His greatest success was winning the IAAF World Cup marathon , which was held in 1991 as part of the London Marathon. Here he set another national record with 2:09:17 and triumphed over one of the most high-profile fields that has ever taken part in a city marathon. At the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in 1991 , however, he did not reach the goal, and the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​where he started for the United Team , were rather disappointing with a 22nd place. In the same year he finished sixth in London and in Fukuoka.

In 1994 he was third in the Vienna City Marathon . The following year he was fifth in the Tokyo International Men's Marathon and won the Siberian International Marathon in Omsk .

Tolstikov lives in Kemerovo , where he works as a teacher at a sports school.

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SURNAME Tolstikow, Jakow Grigoryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Толстиков, Яков Григорьевич; Tolstikov, Yakov
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian marathon runner
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Prokopyevsk