Aleksandr Usov (born 2 March 1976) is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the

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. Usov won the silver medal in

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at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, together with teammates

Dmitriy Forshev Dmitriy Forshev (born 30 May 1976) is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. Forshev won the silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, together with teammates Boris Gorban, Andrey Rudnitskiy and ...

Boris Gorban Boris Aleksandrovich Gorban (russian: Борис Александрович Горбань; born 26 September 1978) is a Russian athlete who ran in the 400 metres hurdles. Gorban won the silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2001 World Ind ...

and

Andrey Rudnitskiy Andrey Petrovich Rudnitskiy (russian: Андре́й Петро́вич Рудни́цкий, born 12 November 1979 in Lutava) is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. Rudnitskiy won the silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at t ...

. The next year, the relay team won the bronze medal at the

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with

Andrey Polukeyev Andrey, Andrej or Andrei (in Cyrillic script: Андрей, Андреј or Андрэй) is a form of Andreas/Ἀνδρέας in Slavic languages and Romanian. People with the name include: *Andrei of Polotsk ( – 1399), Lithuanian nobleman *An ...

, Usov, Forshev and

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. His personal best time is 46.28 seconds, achieved in May 2003 in

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* 1976 births Living people Russian male sprinters World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists 21st-century Russian people {{Russia-athletics-bio-stub