Sergei Popov (athlete), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Khoronkhoy, Russia
About Sergei Popov (athlete)
- Sergei Konstantinovich Popov (Russian: ?????? ?????????????? ?????, 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.
- 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, 1958 and 1959, and placed second in 1962 and third in 1963.
- 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.
- 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.
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