Weniamin soldiersko

Weniamin Vasilyevich soldiersko ( Kazakh Вениамин Васильевич Солдатенко ; born January 4, 1939 in Shkurovka , Kazakh SSR ) is a former Soviet athlete . With a height of 1.75 meters, his competition weight was 64 kilograms.

Weniamin Militärko was a world class 50 km player from 1969 to 1978 .

When he first took part in the European Championships in Athens in 1969, he was third in 4: 23: 04.8 hours behind the two GDR goers Christoph Höhne and Peter Selzer . At the European Championships in Helsinki in 1971 , he won in 4: 02: 22.0 hours ahead of Höhne and Selzer.

In 1972 at the Olympic Games in Munich he stayed under four hours with 3: 58: 24.0 hours and won silver behind Bernd Kannenberg from the Federal Republic of Germany. At the 1974 European Championships , soldiers Koenig was fifth in 4: 09: 31.6 hours.

For the 1976 Olympic Games , the World Athletics Federation IAAF removed the 50 km walk from the program. Instead, a world championship in 50 km walking was held in Malmö . This world championship was the first official world championship in a classic Olympic discipline of athletics, after world championships in cross-country running had been held since 1973. Since the 50 km walk was back on the Olympic program in 1980, this world championship with a single competition remained a curiosity. Weniamin soldiersko won in Malmö in 3:54:40 h in front of the Mexican Enrique Vera and the Finn Reima Salonen and was the first walking world champion.

At the European Championships 1978 , soldiers Ko was there again and won silver in 3:55:12 h behind the Spaniard Jorge Llopart .

literature

• ATFS (Ed.): USSR Athletics Statistics. 1988
• Ekkehard zur Megede : The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics. Berlin 1999.