Yevgeniy Lyungin (russian: Евгений Люнгин; born 8 August 1938) is a former Soviet racewalker who competed in the

50 kilometres race walk The 50 kilometre race walk was an Olympic athletics event that first appeared in 1932 and made its final Olympic appearance in 2021. The racewalking event is competed as a road race. Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the ...

distance.Yevgeniy Lyungin
IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-20. He became his country's first winner of the event at the

IAAF World Race Walking Cup The World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships is a racewalking event organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations. It has been held since 1961, and generally on a biennial basis. Women first entered the 1979 edition. ...

in 1975. Born in Ligovo in Saint Petersburg,Yevgeny Lyungin
Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-07-20. Lyungin first rose to prominence at national level with two national title wins, first over 50 km at the

Soviet Athletics Championships The Soviet Athletics Championships (russian: link=no, Чемпионат СССР по лёгкой атлетике) was an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Soviet Athletics Federation, which served as the Soviet natio ...

in 1964, then over the much shorter 5000 m discipline in 1965 at the

Soviet Indoor Athletics Championships The Soviet Indoor Athletics Championships (russian: Чемпионат СССР по лёгкой атлетике в помещении) was an annual indoor track and field competition organised by the Soviet Athletics Federation, which served a ...

. The former title win brought him selection for the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...

, where he finished in eighteenth place. His major international debut came at the 1970 IAAF World Race Walking Cup held in Eschborn, West Germany. There he placed sixth in a time of 4:14:50 hours. He was mostly behind East German opposition but he and silver medallist

Veniamin Soldatenko Veniamin Vasilievich Soldatenko (russian: Вениамин Васильевич Солдатенко, born 4 January 1939) is a retired Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 50 km walk. He acquired Kazakhstani citizenship after the dissoluti ...

helped the Soviet Union to comfortably take the team silver medals.IAAF WORLD RACE WALKING CUP - SARANSK 2012 - FACTS & FIGURES
IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-20. On his return to the competition at the

1975 IAAF World Race Walking Cup The 1975 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Le Grand-Quevilly, France, on October 11–12, 1975. The event was also known as Lugano Trophy. For the first time, there was a women's 5 km race held as invitation event. Complete results were ...

he defeated all opponents by a margin of over six minutes, in a new best of 4:03:42 hours. Team mate (and one of the favourites) Soldatenko was disqualified for lifting. This performance made Lyungin the only Soviet man ever to win that title at the IAAF World Race Walking Cup. It was nearly a quarter of a century before a man from a former Soviet country topped the 50 km walk podium (Kazakhstan's Sergey Korepanov doing so in 1999). Lyungin was also the protagonist in the Soviet Union's first men's team title at the competition. At 37 years old, he remains the oldest person to have won the 50 km cup title. Lyungin's third a final major international race was at the

1976 World Championships in Athletics The 1976 World Championships in Athletics was the first global, international athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Hosted on 18 September 1976 in Malmö, Sweden, it featured just one eve ...

– a one-off event following the dropping of the 50 km distance as an Olympic event. He ended the competition in sixth place and was the second highest ranked Soviet in the race, after the winner Soldatenko.IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013
(pg. 20). IAAF/ AFTS (2013). Edited by Mark Butler. Retrieved on 2013-09-09.

National titles

**50 km walk: 1964 *

**5000 m walk: 1965

International competitions

References

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* __NOTOC__ {{DEFAULTSORT:Lyungin, Yevgeniy Living people 1938 births Athletes from Saint Petersburg Soviet male racewalkers Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners