Viktor Mikhailovich Burayev

Viktor Michailowitsch Burajew medal table
20 km walking
Russia
World championships
bronze	2001 Edmonton	20 km walking

Viktor Mikhailovich Burajew ( Russian Виктор Михайлович Бураев , Eng. Transcription Viktor Burayev * 23. August 1982 in Penza ) is a Russian walkers .

In 2000 he set the current (as of September 2009) junior world record in the 10,000 meter track with 38: 46.4 min and won the bronze medal in the same discipline at the junior world championships in Santiago de Chile .

He celebrated his greatest success to date by winning the bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton in the 20 km walking competition : In 1:20:36 h, the then 18-year-old Burayev had only his compatriot Roman Rasskasow in a tight race (1:20:31 h) and defending champion Ilja Markow (1:20:33 h), who also comes from Russia .

At the European Championships in Munich in 2002 Burajew finished fourth - at the same time as third place Juan Manuel Molina - as well as four years later at the European Championships in Gothenburg when he missed the bronze medal by three seconds. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , he finished 22nd.

On April 4, 2008, he tested positive for rh-EPO during a doping control . He was then banned for doping for two years.

Viktor Burayev is 1.72 m tall and weighs 59 kg.

Best times

• 10,000 m walking: 38: 46.4 min, May 20, 2000, Moscow
• 10 km walking: 38:58 min, June 21, 2003, Saransk
• 20 km walking: 1:18:06 h, March 4, 2001, Adler

Web links

• Viktor Burayev in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Viktor Burayev in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ^ IAAF: Doping Rule Violation ( Memento from December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). November 5, 2008