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| Born | (1952-07-02)2 July 1952 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft10+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Race walking | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personalbest(s) | 20 km: 1:19:43 (1983) 10,000 m: 39:19.32 (1981) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anatoliy Vasilyevich Solomin (Russian:Анатолий Васильевич Соломин; born 2 July 1952) is a former Soviet Ukrainianrace walker. Solomin competed inmen's 20 km walk at the1980 Summer Olympics and contended for the gold medal, but was disqualified from the lead shortly before the finish. He wasEuropean indoor champion in men's 5000 m walk in 1983 and briefly held the20 km world best. He was born in Komarovka inPenza Oblast.
Track & Field News ranked Solomin in the world's top 10 at20 km seven times between 1977 and 1984.[1] In July 1978 he walked 20 km in 1:23:30 inVilnius, breaking the unofficial world record of Mexico'sDaniel Bautista by ten seconds.[2] The following month Solomin placed third at theEuropean Championships inPrague, behindRoland Wieser andPyotr Pochynchuk;[3] Wieser's winning time of 1:23:12 broke Solomin's fresh record by 18 seconds.[2]
At the 1980 Summer Olympics Solomin broke away from the main group with Bautista, who was the defending champion and had been ranked #1 in the world every year since 1975; for much of the way, the two seemed headed for gold and silver.[4] In one of the most dramatic moments of the 1980 Games,[4] both Bautista and Solomin were disqualified near the finish forimproper walking, and the gold went to Italy'sMaurizio Damilano, who had been in third place.[4][5][6]
Solomin won gold in men's 5000 m walk at the1983 European Indoor Championships, defeating his teammateYevgeniy Yevsyukov by almost 22 seconds.[7] He did not compete in the1983 World Championships,[8] but later that year he placed third at theIAAF Race Walking Cup inBergen, losing only to the top two from the World Championships,Jozef Pribilinec andErnesto Canto.[9] Solomin's time of 1:19:43 was his personal best, only 13 seconds off the world best Pribilinec set in winning the race,[2] and remained theUkrainian record untilIvan Losev broke it at the 2014 Ukrainian championships.[10]
Solomin was Soviet champion in the 20 km walk in 1977 and 1981[11] and placed second behindNikolay Vinnichenko at the1979 Soviet Spartakiad.[4] He remains active in race walking as a coach.[12]
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| Preceded by | World record holder in men's 20 km walk 19 July 1978 – 30 August 1978 | Succeeded by |
