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
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at the
2004 World Indoor Championships, together with teammates
Dmitriy Forshev,
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 In ...
and
Aleksandr Usov. The next year the relay team finished seventh at the
2005 World Championships with Forshev, Rudnitskiy,
Oleg Mishukov and
Yevgeniy Lebedev.
His personal best time is 45.76 seconds, achieved in August 2003 in
Tula.
In February 2008, at the
Russian Indoor Athletics Championships
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in Moscow, he won the 4 × 200 meters relay, but failed the doping test with traces of Carphedon and Cannabis found in his blood sample. As a result, the IAAF suspended Rudnitsky for two years.
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1979 births
Living people
Russian male sprinters
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Russia
World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
People from Chernihiv Oblast
21st-century Russian people
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