Vladimir Golubnichiy to be inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame

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Monaco - Ukraine’s two-time Olympic champion and multiple World record breaker Vladimir Golubnichiy is the latest athletics legend to be named as one of the 24 inaugural Members of the IAAF Hall of Fame which has been created to mark the year of the IAAF Centenary.

The announcement of this honour marks the staging of the 2012 IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final, which took place yesterday (14) in Erdos, China.

Vladimir Golubnichiy (Soviet Union/Ukraine) is one of only a handful of athletes who have competed at five or more Olympic Games and the Ukrainian, who concentrated on the 20km Race Walk internationally, can look back to a long and illustrious career at the highest level.

He set his first 20km World record at the age of just 19 in 1955 but will be best remembered for his two Olympic titles (1960 and 68) and the World record he set in 1958 which was to remain on the books for almost 11 years.

"The incredible career of Golubnichiy made his inclusion in the IAAF Hall of Fame unquestionable," commented IAAF President Lamine Diack. "Not only was he a repeat Olympic champion and World record breaker, the span of his international career was truly awe-inspiring. With a silver and bronze giving him a total of four Olympic podium places, Golubnichiy, who set his first World mark in 1955, was still good enough for seventh place at the 1976 Olympics!"

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