Aleksey Bazarov ( he, אלכסיי באזארוב, russian: Алексей Базаров) born 14 October 1963) is a retired USSR-born
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
i athlete who specialized in the
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women.
On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once ...
.
He became
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
champion in 1990, and represented the Soviet Union in
hurdles
Hurdling is the act of jumping over an obstacle at a high speed or in a sprint. In the early 19th century, hurdlers ran at and jumped over each hurdle (sometimes known as 'burgles'), landing on both feet and checking their forward motion. Today, ...
and
relay
A relay
Electromechanical relay schematic showing a control coil, four pairs of normally open and one pair of normally closed contacts
An automotive-style miniature relay with the dust cover taken off
A relay is an electrically operated switch ...
(where the team finished eighth) at the
1990 European Championships. He won his first Israeli championship in 1992, and would win four national titles in total; one of them in the
400 metres. He also competed at the
1992 Olympic Games,
the
1993 World Championships and the
1994 European Championships without reaching the final.
His personal best time was 49.33 seconds, achieved in June 1988 in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
.
World men's all-time best 400m hurdles
(last updated 2001)
See also
*List of Israeli records in athletics
The following are the national records in athletics in Israel maintained by Israeli Athletic Association (IAA).
Outdoor
Key to tables:
+ = en route to a longer distance
h = hand timing
A = affected by altitude
Mx = mixed race
Wo = woman ...
*List of Maccabiah records in athletics
The Maccabiah Games is a quadrennial event which began in 1932. Events at the Games are divided into two groups: track and field events (including sprints, middle- and long-distance running, hurdling, relays, and field events), and road running (i ...
References
External links
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1963 births
Living people
Soviet male hurdlers
Israeli male hurdlers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Israel
Soviet emigrants to Israel
World Athletics Championships athletes for Israel
Place of birth missing (living people)
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