Vyacheslav Korovin, Date of Birth

    

Vyacheslav Korovin

Soviet-Russian male hammer thrower

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1962

Profession: hammer thrower

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Vyacheslav Korovin

  • Vyacheslav Korovin (Russian: ???????? ???????; born 8 September 1962) is a Russian former track and field athlete who competed in the hammer throw for the Soviet Union.
  • He ranks within the all-time top thirty for the event, as of 2016.The sole international medal of his career came at the 1981 European Athletics Junior Championships, where he threw 68.36 m (224 ft 3 1/4 in) to take the bronze medal behind Christoph Sahner and Sergey Dorozhon.
  • His greatest achievement came in the 1987 season when he threw a career best of 82.24 m (269 ft 9 3/4 in) in Chelyabinsk.
  • This ranked him third in the world that year behind fellow Soviets Sergey Litvinov and Igor Astapkovich – both of whom were Olympic medallists.
  • This proved to be a brief peak for Korovin as he did not break eighty metres again and his next highest ranking was twelfth in the 1989 season.

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