Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanenko (russian: link=no, Вячеслав Иванович Иваненко; born March 3, 1961) is a retired

race walker Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Race judges carefully asse ...

who represented the

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Biography

He won the gold medal over 50 kilometers at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

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with a personal best time of 3:38:29. He also won a silver at the 1986 European Championships and a bronze at the 1987 World Championships. Born in

Kemerovo Kemerovo ( rus, Ке́мерово, p=ˈkʲemʲɪrəvə) is an industrial city and the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Iskitimka and Tom Rivers, in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk ...

, Ivanenko was awarded the title ''

Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR (russian: Единая Всесоюзная спортивная классификация) is a document which provided general Soviet physical education system requirements for both athletes an ...

'' in 1988 and the

Order of Friendship of Peoples The Order of Friendship of Peoples (russian: oрден Дружбы народов, translit=orden Druzhby narodov) was an order of the Soviet Union, and was awarded to persons (including non-citizens), organizations, enterprises, military units ...

. Ivanenko works in the Kemerovo department of the ''State Inspection For Traffic Security'' (GIBDD). Since 2008, every autumn in Kemerovo on the Vyacheslav's initiative and the support of local authorities Ivanenko Race Walking Cup is taking place.

International competitions

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* * 1961 births Living people People from Kemerovo Sportspeople from Kemerovo Oblast Soviet male racewalkers Russian male racewalkers Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) {{USSR-athletics-Olympic-medalist-stub