Valery Viktorovich Borchin

Valery Borchin
Bortschin at the 2009 World Championships
nation	Russia
birthday	September 11, 1986
place of birth	Powodimowo
size	178 cm
Weight	63 kg
Career
discipline	Go
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × European championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Beijing 2008 20 km walking European championships silver Gothenburg 2006 20 km walking
last change: August 27, 2013

Valeriy Borchin ( Russian Валерий Викторович Борчин ., English transcription Valeriy Borchin * 11. September 1986 in Powodimowo, rayon Dubinki, Mordovian ASSR , USSR ) is a Russian walkers and Olympic champion from the nationality of the Erzya-Mordvin .

Career

At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 , he won silver in the 20 km walk . In 2008 he increased his best time over 20 km to 1:17:55 h and won the Olympic Games in Beijing over this distance. The victory was overshadowed by doping rumors as three Russian walkers had been banned for doping shortly before the games and Bortschin himself was banned for one year in 2005 for ephedrine abuse.

At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , he won his next international title. In a time of 1:18:41 h he relegated the Chinese Wang Hao and the Mexican Eder Sánchez to the places over 20 km . He was not nominated for the home world championships in Moscow in 2013.

doping

In January 2015 he was charged with irregularities in his biological passport locked retroactively to 15 October 2012 for eight years and all results from July 14, 2009 and September 15th 2009, between 16 June 2011 and 27 September 2011 and deleted between April 11, 2012 and September 3, 2012, including the 2009 and 2011 world championship titles.

Valery Borchin is 1.78 m tall and weighs 63 kg. He lives in Mordovia and is a member of the Russian army .

Web links

Commons : Valeriy Borchin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Valeriy Borchin in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Valery Bortschin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait at RusAthletics (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Netzeitung : Geher decision with bland aftertaste ( memento from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). August 16, 2008
2. ^ IAAF: Athletes Sanctioned for a Doping Offence Committed During 2005
3. ↑ www.spox.com August 1, 2013
4. ↑ Russian athletes (athletics) recognized ineligible Rusada January 20, 2015 ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.