Vladimir Vladimirovich Graudyn (; born 26 August 1963) is a Russian former track and field athlete who competed in the 800 metres for the Soviet Union. He was a silver medallist at both the IAAF World Indoor Championships and European Athletics Indoor Championships in 1987. Graudyn represented his country at the World Championships in Athletics that same year and also raced at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

. He was a three-time national champion. His personal best for the 800 m was 1:44.10 minutes.

Career

Born in Moscow, Graudyn joined the Spartak Minsk based in the

Belarus SSR The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; be, Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка, Bielaruskaja Savieckaja Sacyjalistyčnaja Respublika; russian: Белор� ...

.Vladimir Graudyn
Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-11-06. He first emerged at national level at the 1986 Soviet Spartakiad, where he was the gold medallist in the

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

in a time of 3:44.29 minutes.Soviet Championships
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-11-06. He also won was the 800 m champion 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 ...

that year – a title which he defended the following year.Soviet Indoor Championships
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-11-06. On his major international debut he reached the semi-finals at the

1986 European Athletics Championships The 14th European Athletics Championships were held from 26 to 31 August 1986 at the Neckarstadion, now known as Mercedes-Benz Arena, in Stuttgart, a city in West Germany. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. ...

. Graudyn had most of his success at international in the 1987 season. At the

1987 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 1987 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at Stade Couvert Régional in Liévin, France, on 21 and 22 February 1987. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Participating nations * (7) * (13) * (18) * (1) * (15) * (1) * (16) ...

he took the silver medal in the 800 m behind Dutchman

Rob Druppers Robertus "Rob" Johannes Druppers (born 29 April 1962) is a former Dutch middle distance runner, who won the silver medal in the 800 m event at the 1983 World Championships. He set a Dutch 800 m record at 1:43.56 in Cologne in 1985, and a 1000 ...

in a tactical race. The following month he competed at the

1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 1st IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in Indianapolis, United States from March 6 to March 8, 1987. The championship had previously been known as the World Indoor Games, which were held once before changing the name. Being ...

and repeated that finish, coming second but this time to Brazil's

José Luíz Barbosa José Luíz Barbosa, known as Zequinha Barbosa (born May 27, 1961) is a Brazilian former middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. José participated in 4 Olympic Games: 1984 Los Angeles; 1988 Soul Korea; 1992 Barcelona and 1996 A ...

. He was the Soviet Union's only ever medallist in the men's event at that competition. He was the Soviet Union's best performer in the 800 m at the

1987 World Championships in Athletics The 2nd World Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations were held in the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy between August 28 and September 6, 1987. Men's results Track 1983 , 1987 ...

, missing qualification for the final by a margin of three hundredths and outperforming

Andrey Sudnik Andrey Sudnik ( be, Андрэй Суднік; russian: Андрей Судник; born 11 March 1967) is a retired Belarusian middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 meters. He represented the Soviet Union at two indoor and two outdo ...

. Graudyn set a personal best of 1:44.10 minutes at the Bislett Games in 1988 – this time placed him in the top ten in the world that year and he was third among Europeans, bettered only by British duo

Steve Cram Stephen Cram, (born 14 October 1960) is a British retired track and field athlete. Along with fellow Britons Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, he was one of the world's dominant middle distance runners during the 1980s. Nicknamed "The Jarrow Arr ...

and

Sebastian Coe Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, (born 29 September 1956), often referred to as Seb Coe, is a British politician and former track and field athlete. As a middle-distance runner, Coe won four Olympic medals, including 1500 metres gold medal ...

. However, he failed to match this form at the

1988 Seoul Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

, being eliminated in the quarter-final round. That proved to be the last major international event that he ran at. His wife,

Yuliya Graudyn Yuliya Graudyn (russian: Юлия Граудынь; born 13 November 1970) is a retired Russian hurdling, hurdler. Her personal best for the 100 metres hurdles was 12.62 seconds, achieved in August 1994 in Berlin. She was a medalist in the event a ...

, would later win world and European medals for Russia.Yuliya Graudyn
Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2015-11-06.

National titles

Soviet Spartakiad 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 ...

**1500 metres: 1986 *

**800 metres: 1986, 1987

International competitions

Notes

* Some sources list his birth date as 4 October 1963.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Graudyn, Vladimir Living people 1963 births Athletes from Moscow Russian male middle-distance runners Soviet male middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists