Vladimir Kazantsev (athlete)
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Born | 6 January 1923 Alekseyevka, Saratov Oblast, Russia | |||||||||||
Died | 22 November 2007 (aged 84) Moscow, Russia | |||||||||||
Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | |||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
Event(s) | Steeplechase, 5000 m, 10,000 m | |||||||||||
Club | Dynamo Moscow | |||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 3000 mS – 8:48.6 (1952) 5000 m – 14:08.8 (1952) 10,000 m – 30:20.0 (1950)[1] | |||||||||||
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Vladimir Dmitriyevich Kazantsev (Template:Lang-ru, 6 January 1923 – 22 November 2007) was a Russian long-distance runner who won a silver medal in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 1952 Olympics. He set world's best times in this event in 1951 and 1952 and won the Soviet title in 1950–53. In the Olympic final he had a 20 m lead with 700 m remaining, but injured a tendon in a bad landing after a water jump, and was overtaken by Horace Ashenfelter.[2]
Ashenfelter was an FBI agent, while Kazantsev was a KGB officer who retired in the rank of lieutenant colonel. He fought as a private in the German-Soviet War at the Kalinin Front, was wounded in action in 1942, and awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War.[3] Besides his KGB service Kazantsev taught physical education at the Soviet Police Academy and worked as an athletics coach, preparing the Soviet team to the 1964 Olympics.[2]
References
- ^ Vladimir Kazantsev. trackfield.brinkster.net
- ^ a b Vladimir Kazantsev. sports-reference.com
- ^ Владимир Дмитриевич КАЗАНЦЕВ (6.1.1923). shadrinsk.info
- 1923 births
- 2007 deaths
- Soviet male middle-distance runners
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union
- Dynamo sports society athletes
- Soviet military personnel of World War II
- People from Saratov Governorate
- Soviet male steeplechase runners
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Soviet athletics Olympic medalist stubs