About Anatoliy Solomin
Anatoliy Vasilyevich Solomin 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. The following month Solomin placed third at the European Championships in Prague, behind Roland Wieser and Pyotr Pochynchuk; Wieser's winning time of 1:23:12 broke Solomin's fresh record by 18 seconds. Solomin won gold in men's 5000 m walk at the 1983 European Indoor Championships, defeating his teammate Yevgeniy Yevsyukov by almost 22 seconds. Solomin's time of 1:19:43 was his personal best, only 13 seconds off the world best Pribilinec set in winning the race, and remained the Ukrainian record until Ivan Losev broke it at the 2014 Ukrainian championships. 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.
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