Aleksandr Potashov ( be, Аляксандар Паташоў, Russian: ''Александр Поташёв''; born 12 March 1962) is a retired

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who represented the

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and later

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. He won the gold medal over 50 kilometres at the 1991 World Championships. Potashov and his teammate

Andrey Perlov Andrey Borisovich Perlov (russian: Андрей Борисович Перлов, born 12 December 1961 in Novosibirsk, Soviet Union) is a retired race walker who represented the USSR and later Russia. Career Perlov won the gold medal over 50 k ...

attempted to cross the goal line simultaneously, resulting in a shared gold medal, but the officials declared Potashov the winner by 0.01 second. Potashov finished fourth at the

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and was disqualified at the 1992 Olympics. His personal best time is 3:40:02, achieved in May 1990.

International competitions

References

* * 1962 births Living people Sportspeople from Vitebsk Belarusian male racewalkers Soviet male racewalkers Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union Olympic athletes for Belarus Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union World Athletics Championships medalists Soviet Athletics Championships winners World Athletics Championships winners {{Belarus-athletics-bio-stub