Aleksandr Kurochkin
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Born | 23 July 1961 |
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] |
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.[2] 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).[3] The first result is the standing Kazakhstani record.
International competitions
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing the ![]() | |||||
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
References
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Categories:
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Kazakhstani male sprinters
- Soviet male sprinters
- World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
- Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Friendship Games medalists in athletics
- Soviet Athletics Championships winners
- Soviet athletics biography stubs
- Kazakhstani athletics biography stubs