Personal information | |
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Birth name | Sergei Konstantinovich Popov |
Born | Khoronkhoy, Troitskosavsky aimak, Buryat ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union [1] | 21 September 1930
Died | 25 June 1995 Saint Petersburg, Russia | (aged 64)
Height | 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) [1] |
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | Soviet Union |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Marathon |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | 2:15:17 (1958) [2] |
Medal record |
Sergei Konstantinovich Popov ( Russian: Сергей Константинович Попов, 21 September 1930 – 25 June 1995) was a Russian marathon runner. He won a gold medal at the 1958 European Championships setting a new world record at 2:15:17; this record stood for more than two years and remained the Soviet national record until 1970. He also set a world record in Moscow, on June 15, 1958, for 30 kilometers, running 1:32:58.8. [3] Popov won the Soviet marathon title in 1957, when he ran the world's fastest marathon of the year in 2:19:50 in Moscow, [4] 1958 and 1959, and placed second in 1962 and third in 1963. [5] In 1959, he set the course record at the Košice Peace Marathon, the third year in a row he ran the world's fastest time. [4] He finished fifth at the 1960 Summer Olympics when the winner, Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila, broke Popov's world record by less than a second. [1]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing the Soviet Union | |||||
1957 | Soviet Athletics Championships | Moscow, Soviet Union | 1st | Marathon | 2:19:50.0 |
1958 | European Championships | Stockholm, Sweden | 1st | Marathon | 2:15:17.0 |
1959 | Košice Peace Marathon | Košice, Czechoslovakia | 1st | Marathon | 2:17:45 |