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Full name | Valeriy Viktorovich Borchin |
Born | Povadimovo, Dubyonsky District, Mordovian ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 11 September 1986
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | Russia |
Sport | Men's athletics |
Event | 20km Race Walk |
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.[1] His World Championship was retroactively stripped in 2015 due to doping.