Vyacheslav Ivanenko
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| Olympic medal record | |||
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| Men's Athletics | |||
| Gold | Seoul 1988 | 50 km walk | |
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanenko (Russian:Вячеслав Иванович Иваненко) (born March 3, 1961 in Kemerovo) is a retired race walker who represented the USSR. He won the gold medal over 50 kilometres at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a personal best time of 3:38:29. He also won a silver at the 1986 European Championships and a bronze at the 1987 World Championships.
Ivanenko was awarded the title Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1988 and the Order of Friendship of Peoples.
Ivanenko works in the Kemerovo department of the State Inspection For Traffic Security (GIBDD).
[edit] External link
- IAAF profile for Vyacheslav Ivanenko
| Olympic champions in men's 50 km walk |
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| Thomas Green | Harold Whitlock | John Ljunggren | Giuseppe Dordoni | Norman Read | Don Thompson | Abdon Pamich | Christoph Höhne | Bernd Kannenberg | Hartwig Gauder | Raúl González | Vyacheslav Ivanenko | Andrey Perlov | Robert Korzeniowski (three times) |
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