Valeriy Spitsyn

Valeriy Anatolyevich Spitsyn (Russian: Валерий Анатольевич Спицын; born 5 December 1965 in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast) is a retired male race walker from Russia.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Unified Team
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	4th	50 km	3:54:39
Representing Russia
1993	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	3rd	50 km	3:42:50
1994	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	1st	50 km	3:41:07
1995	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	—	50 km	DNF
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	—	50 km	DNF

External links

Valeriy Spitsyn profile at IAAF
sports-reference

Records
Preceded by Andrey Perlov	Men's 50km Walk World Record Holder May 21, 2000 – August 8, 2002	Succeeded by Robert Korzeniowski

European Athletics Championships champions in men's 50 kilometres race walk

1934: Jānis Daliņš (LAT)
1938: Harold Whitlock (GBR)
1946: John Ljunggren (SWE)
1950: Pino Dordoni (ITA)
1954: Vladimir Ukhov (URS)
1958: Yevgeny Maskinskov (URS)
1962–66: Abdon Pamich (ITA)
1969: Christoph Höhne (GDR)
1971: Veniamin Soldatenko (URS)
1974: Christoph Höhne (GDR)
1978: Jorge Llopart (ESP)
1982: Reima Salonen (FIN)
1986: Hartwig Gauder (GDR)
1990: Andrey Perlov (URS)
1994: Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS)
1998–02: Robert Korzeniowski (POL)
2006–14: Yohann Diniz (FRA)

World Best Year Performance in men's race walking

20 km walk	1980: Domingo Colín (MEX) 1981: Dave Smith (AUS) 1982: Willi Sawall (AUS) 1983: Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) 1984: Ernesto Canto (MEX) 1985: Dave Smith (AUS) 1986: Reima Salonen (FIN) 1987: Axel Noack (GDR) 1988: Mikhail Shchennikov (URS) 1989: Yevgeniy Misyulya (URS) 1990: Pavol Blažek (TCH) 1991: Aleksandr Pershin (URS) 1992: Stefan Johansson (SWE) 1993: Bernardo Segura (MEX) 1994: Bernardo Segura (MEX) 1995: Vladimir Andreyev (RUS) 1996: Yevgeniy Misyulya (BLR) 1997: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 1998: Vladimir Andreyev (RUS) 1999: Julio René Martínez (GUA) 2000: Roman Rasskazov (RUS) 2001: Dmitriy Yesipchuk (RUS) 2002: Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 2003: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 2004: Vladimir Stankin (RUS) 2005: Nathan Deakes (AUS) 2006: Li Gaobo (CHN) 2007: Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS) 2008: Sergey Morozov (RUS) 2009: Valeriy Borchin (RUS) 2010: Alex Schwazer (ITA) 2011: Wang Zhen (CHN) 2012: Alex Schwazer (ITA) 2013: Petr Trofimov (RUS) 2014: Yusuke Suzuki (JPN) 2015: Yusuke Suzuki (JPN)

50 km walk	1980: José Marín (ESP) 1981: Uwe Dünkel (GDR) 1982: Ronald Weigel (GDR) 1983: José Marín (ESP) 1984: Ronald Weigel (GDR) 1985: Andrey Perlov (URS) 1986: Ronald Weigel (GDR) 1987: Andrey Perlov (URS) 1988: Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS) 1989: Andrey Perlov (URS) 1990: Aleksandr Potashov (URS) 1991: Carlos Mercenario (MEX) 1992: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 1993: Jesús Ángel García (ESP) 1994: Valentí Massana (ESP) 1995: Zhao Yongsheng (CHN) 1996: Thierry Toutain (FRA) 1997: Jesús Ángel García (ESP) 1998: Andrey Plotnikov (RUS) 1999: Sergey Korepanov (KAZ) 2000: Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS) 2001: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 2002: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 2003: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 2004: Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) 2005: Yu Chaohong (CHN) 2006: Nathan Deakes (AUS) 2007: Alex Schwazer (ITA) 2008: Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) 2009: Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS) 2010: Yohan Diniz (FRA) 2011: Sergey Bakulin (RUS) 2012: Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS) 2013: Robert Heffernan (IRL) 2014: Yohann Diniz (FRA) 2015: Matej Tóth (SVK)

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