Aleksandr Kurochkin

Aleksandr Kurochkin

Personal information
Born	(1961-07-23) 23 July 1961
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	79 kg (174 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	400 metres

Aleksandr Kurochkin (Cyrillic: Александр Курочкин; born 23 July 1961) is a retired Kazakhstani sprinter specialising in the 400 metres who competed for the Soviet Union. He took part at the 1987 World Championships reaching the semifinals. In addition, he won the bronze medal at the 1984 Friendship Games which were a competition for countries boycotting the 1984 Summer Olympics. He also won several medals with the Soviet 4 × 400 metres relay.

His personal bests in the event are 45.52 outdoors (Moscow 1984) and 47.86 seconds indoors (Moscow 1986). The first result is the standing Kazakhstani record.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing the Soviet Union
1984	Friendship Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	3rd	400 m	45.52
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:00.16
1986	Goodwill Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	5th	400 m	45.67
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:01.25
	European Championships	Stuttgart, West Germany	11th (sf)	400 m	46.01
			3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:00.47
1987	World Championships	Rome, Italy	15th (sf)	400 m	45.73
			7th (sf)	4 × 400 m relay	3:01.611

¹Did not finish in the final