Anatoliy Solomin

Anatoliy Solomin
Personal information
Born(1952-07-02)2 July 1952
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
EventRace walking
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)20 km: 1:19:43 (1983)
10,000 m: 39:19.32 (1981)
Medal record
Representing  Soviet Union
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1978 Prague 20 km walk
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 1983 Budapest 5000 m walk
IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Bronze medal – third place 1983 Bergen 20 km walk

Anatoliy Vasilyevich Solomin (Russian: Анатолий Васильевич Соломин; born 2 July 1952) is a former Soviet Ukrainian race walker. Solomin competed in men's 20 km walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics and contended for the gold medal, but was disqualified from the lead shortly before the finish. He was European indoor champion in men's 5000 m walk in 1983 and briefly held the 20 km world best. He was born in Komarovka in Penza Oblast.

Career

Track & Field News ranked Solomin in the world's top 10 at 20 km seven times between 1977 and 1984.[1] In July 1978 he walked 20 km in 1:23:30 in Vilnius, breaking the unofficial world record of Mexico's Daniel Bautista by ten seconds.[2] The following month Solomin placed third at the European Championships in Prague, behind Roland Wieser and Pyotr 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 for improper walking, and the gold went to Italy's Maurizio Damilano, who had been in third place.[4][5][6]

Solomin won gold in men's 5000 m walk at the 1983 European Indoor Championships, defeating his teammate Yevgeniy Yevsyukov by almost 22 seconds.[7] He did not compete in the 1983 World Championships,[8] but later that year he placed third at the IAAF Race Walking Cup in Bergen, losing only to the top two from the World Championships, Jozef Pribilinec and Ernesto 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 the Ukrainian record until Ivan 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 behind Nikolay Vinnichenko at the 1979 Soviet Spartakiad.[4] He remains active in race walking as a coach.[12]

References

  1. ^ "World Rankings — Men's 20K Walk" (PDF). Track & Field News. Retrieved 5 December 2014.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ a b c Butler, Mark; IAAF Media & Public Relations Department (2013). IAAF Statistics Handbook Moscow 2013. International Association of Athletics Federations.
  3. ^ Jalava, Mirko (2014). "European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014: Statistics Handbook" (PDF). European Athletics. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d Siukonen, Markku; et al. (1980). Urheilutieto 5 (in Finnish). Oy Scandia Kirjat Ab. pp. 314, 357, 567. ISBN 951-9466-20-7.
  5. ^ "Athletics at the 1980 Moskva Summer Games: Men's 20 kilometres Walk". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  6. ^ Butler, Mark (ed.). IAAF Athletics Statistics Book: Games of the XXX Olympiad London 2012. IAAF Communications Department. p. 184.
  7. ^ Jalava, Mirko (ed.). 2013 European Indoor Championships Statistics Handbook (PDF). European Athletics. p. 494.
  8. ^ Pekola, Tapio; et al. (1983). Yleisurheilun MM-kisakirja Helsinki '83 (in Finnish). Juoksija. ISBN 951-9465-05-7.
  9. ^ 25th IAAF World Race Walking Cup - Saransk 2012 - Facts & Figures, IAAF, 2012
  10. ^ "Dmytrenko takes heart from team-mates' successes to triumph in Taicang". IAAF. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  11. ^ "Soviet Championships". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  12. ^ Odintsova, Elena (6 March 2014). ""Стадион" с видом на море" (in Russian). alushta.org. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
Records
Preceded by World record holder in men's 20 km walk
19 July 1978 – 30 August 1978 		Succeeded by