Martin Toporek

Martin Toporek
nation	Austria
birthday	15th February 1961 (age 59)
Career
Best performance	41: 53.59 h (10 km walking) 1:25:32 h (20 km walking)
status	resigned
last change: May 1st, 2017

Martin Toporek (born February 15, 1961 ) is a former Austrian walker and two-time Olympian (1980, 1984).

Career

Olympic Games 1980 and 1984

He competed twice at the Olympic Games in 20 km walking :
At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , he came in 21st and in 1984 in Los Angeles , 29th.

At the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 1982 in Milan, he was third in the 5000 m walking.

In April 1986 he set an Austrian record of 1:25:32 h over 20 km of walking , which is still held today. ^{(As of May 2017)}

At the European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart 1986 he finished 16th over 20 km and 21st place over 50 km .

Doping 1996

In 1996 Martin Toporek tested positive for the substances methylephedrine , ephedrine and pseudoephedrine and was banned for three months.

His former wife Viera Toporek was also active as a long-distance and mountain runner.

Personal bests

• 3000 m walking (hall): 11: 12.0 min, February 10, 1983, Vienna (Austrian record)
• 5000 m walking (hall): 19: 37.57 min, December 16, 1986, Vienna (Austrian record)
• 10,000 m walking: 41: 53.59 min, June 6th 1981, Schwechat (Austrian best)
• 20 km walking: 1:25:32 h, April 26, 1986, Bergen (Austrian record)
• 50 km walking: 4:20:10 h, April 21, 1984, Dudince

Web links

• Martin Toporek in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait at the ÖLV

Individual evidence

1. ^ ÖLV news. No. 1, 2008, p. 5 ( PDF; 829 kB ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )