Andrey Sergeyevich Yepishin (russian: Андрей Серге́евич Епишин, born 10 June 1981 in Zhukovsky) is a Russian athlete specializing in the

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.Athlete biography: Andrey Epishin
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Career

He won a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the

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. Participating in the

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, he achieved fifth place in his 100 metres heat, thus failing to make it through to the second round. He also participated on the Russian

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team, which finished last. The next year Yepishin finished fifth at the

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, and won a silver medal at the

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in İzmir. In 2006 he finished second in the

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at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow to clock a new personal best and national record time of 6.52 seconds. He won the silver medal in the 100 m at the

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and recorded a new national record of 10.10 seconds. He finished seventh at the

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, and eighth at the 2008 World Indoor Championships. At the

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he placed 2nd in his heat after

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in a time of 10.34 seconds. He qualified for the second round in which he improved his time to 10.25 seconds. However, he was unable to qualify for the semi finals as he finished in 6th place of his heat.

Personal bests

100m : 10.10(

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2006)

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* 1981 births Living people Russian male sprinters Olympic male sprinters Olympic athletes of Russia Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Universiade silver medalists for Russia Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists Russian Athletics Championships winners People from Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast Sportspeople from Moscow Oblast 21st-century Russian people {{Russia-athletics-bio-stub