Sergei Popov (marathon runner)

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Sergei Konstantinovich Popov (Template:Langx, 21 September 1930 – 25 June 1995) was a Russian marathon runner. He won a gold medal at the 1958 European Championships setting a new world record at 2:15:17; this record stood for more than two years and remained the Soviet national record until 1970. He also set a world record in Moscow, on June 15, 1958, for 30 kilometers, running 1:32:58.8.[1] Popov won the Soviet marathon title in 1957, when he ran the world's fastest marathon of the year in 2:19:50 in Moscow,[2] 1958 and 1959, and placed second in 1962 and third in 1963.[3] In 1959, he set the course record at the Košice Peace Marathon, the third year in a row he ran the world's fastest time.[2] He finished fifth at the 1960 Summer Olympics when the winner, Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila, broke Popov's world record by less than a second.[4]

Achievements

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1957 Soviet Athletics Championships Moscow, Soviet Union 1st Marathon 2:19:50.0
1958 European Championships Stockholm, Sweden 1st Marathon 2:15:17.0
1959 Košice Peace Marathon Košice, Czechoslovakia 1st Marathon 2:17:45

References

  1. World's best progressions - Road. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
  2. a b Fastest Marathons run each year, Association of International Marathons and Distance Races, 2016. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  3. ПОПОВ СЕРГЕЙ КОНСТАНТИНОВИЧ. ulan-ude-eg.ru
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Records
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