Igor Braslavskiy (born 19 August 1959) is aMoldovanmiddle-distance andlong-distance runner. He achieved fame in 1983, when he ran the5,000 meters inChișinău, then part of theSoviet Union (USSR), and clocked a 13:47.6, setting a newnational record in Moldova for the distance.[1] He continued to prominence as a runner in the USSR in 1986, when he became theNational Marathon Champion for the nation on July 6 in Moscow.[2][3][4][5]
Braslavskiy has also been a winner or top finisher in major marathons, including his 24th-place finish in theLondon Marathon, his ninth-place finish in theBerlin Marathon, his second place at the 1993Istanbul Marathon in Turkey, and his fourth place at the 1994Stockholm Marathon.
He earned greater recognition in the United States in the early 1990s. At the 1990Grandma's Marathon in theMinnesota, which starts inTwo Harbors,Minnesota, and heads southeast along the shore ofLake Superior toDuluth, he pulled away to win first place. He traveled back to the States in 1992, earning a second-place finish on theChicago Marathon's flat course near the shore ofLake Michigan.
