Gennady Stepanovich Solodov (born October 6, 1934 , Kurgan ) is a Soviet athlete specializing in race walking . Participant of two Olympiads (1960, 1964) [1] . Master of Sports of the USSR international class . Honored coach of the USSR .
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| Date and place of birth | October 6, 1934 (84 years) Kurgan , Chelyabinsk Region , RSFSR , USSR (now Kurgan region ) | ||||||
| Citizenship |  USSR →  Russia | ||||||
| Growth | 178 cm | ||||||
| Weight | 70 kg | ||||||
| Club | Spartacus | ||||||
| Trainer | A.F. Karpov | ||||||
| Sports career | 1956 - 1968 | ||||||
| Personal records in walking | |||||||
| 20 km | 1:28:16 (1960) | ||||||
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Biography
Gennady Stepanovich Solodov was born on October 6, 1934 in the city of Kurgan, Chelyabinsk Region , now the administrative center of the Kurgan Region [2] .
He studied at the Kurgan school number 12, then - at the Railway School number 1 , where physical education was taught by Albert Fedorovich Karpov , who later became Gennady's walking race coach [3] . From 1952 to 1953, Solodov worked as a turner at the Kurgan Meat Processing Plant . From 1953 to 1956 he served in the Soviet Army .
In 1958, speaking at the championship of the CS DSO "Spartak" in Gorky, he passed the test in the first category, and the Kurgan region took the third place. In the same year, at the Games of the Peoples of the USSR in Leningrad, speaking for the 50 km race team of Russia, it took the sixth place with a result of 4 hours and 18 minutes. and complied with the standard master of sports of the USSR.
In 1959 he entered the evening department at the Omsk State Institute of Physical Culture , and at the same time began to work as a ski coach.
From 1959 to 1968 he was a member of the USSR national team in race walking. In 1962 in London at the match of the USSR - England took the third place. The winner of the USSR-USA international competitions in 1963, the Znamensky Brothers Memorial in 1960 (20 km result - 1 h. 28 min. 16 sec.) And 1961. After the Olympics, in 1965 did not act because of a rib fracture. In 1967, he won the Russian Trade Unions Olympics by 20 km and ranked third by 50 km. At the Games of the peoples of the USSR in race walking 20 km was the second. He graduated from a sports career in 1968 without qualifying for the Olympics in Mexico City (in the main selection, he took 5th place for 20 km).
From 1976 he lived in Sochi , then moved to Rudny (Kazakhstan) [4] . In 1999, at the invitation of the Minister of Sports of the Chuvash Republic, he and his family moved to Cheboksary and began working as a coach at the Republican school of walking.
The most famous athletes among his students are:
- Evgeny Evsyukov - bronze prizewinner of the World Cup in 1983, silver medalist of the European Championship in 1983, two-time USSR champion in the room (1978, 1979) [2]
- Alexander Yargunkin - the champion of Russia in 2014 in walking 50 km, the participant of the European Championship in 2014 [2] .
Main results
International
| Year | Competition | Location | Distance | A place | Result |
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| 1960 | Olympic Games | Rome , Italy | 20 km | - | Dq |
| 1964 | Olympic Games | Tokyo , Japan | 20 km | five | 1:32:33 |
National
| Year | Competition | Location | Distance | A place | Result |
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| 1964 | USSR Championship | Kiev | 50 km | 4:25: 44.0 | |
| 1967 | USSR Championship | Moscow | 20 km | 1: 28: 34,4 | |
| 1968 | USSR Championship | Leninakan | 20 km | five |
Notes
Links
- Gennady Solodov - Olympic statistics on the website Sports-Reference.com (English)