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Key facts
- Full name
- Valeriy Viktorovich Borchin
- Born
- ( 1986-09-11 ) 11 September 1986 (age 39) , Povadimovo, Dubyonsky District , Mordovian ASSR , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Height
- 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
- Weight
- 63 kg (139 lb)
- Country
- Russia
- Sport
- Men's athletics
- Event
- 20km Race Walk
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Valery
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Povodimovo
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Award
- Order of Friendship
- Participant in
- 2008 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Member of team
- CSKA Moscow
- Country for sport
- Russia
- Mass
- 63
- Image
- Waleri Wiktorowitsch Bortschin 6328.jpg
- Height
- 178
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- Commons category
- Valeriy Borchin
- date of birth
- 1986-09-11
- sports discipline competed in
- racewalking
- name in native language
- Валерий Борчин
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Encyclopedic overview
Valeriy Viktorovich Borchin (Russian: Вале́рий Ви́кторович Бо́рчин; born 11 September 1986) is a race walker from Russia who won the 2008 Olympic gold medal and was World champion over the 20 km distance. His World Championship was retroactively stripped in 2015 due to doping.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valeriy Borchin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.