Vasiliy Yershov
Ukrainian javelin thrower
Vasiliy Yershov (15 August 1949 – 6 November 2000)[1] was a Ukrainian javelin thrower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics for Soviet Union.[2] Yershov tested positive for anabolic steroids at the 1978 European Athletics Championships and was subsequently banned from sport for 18 months.[3][4]
References
- ^ Biography of Vasiliy Yershov (in Ukrainian)
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Vasiliy Yershov". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
- ^ Holt, John B. (26–28 April 1979), International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) - Main Decisions of the IAAF Council, Meeting in Dakar (SEN), April 26th, 27th and 28th 1979 (PDF), IAAF, pp. 353–354, retrieved 13 February 2015
- ^ "Fire av fem var russere", Aftenposten 6 November 1978, p.2, 2nd section.
External links
Vasiliy Yershov at Olympedia
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World University Games champions in men's javelin throw
- 1959:
Hermann Salomon (FRG)
- 1961:
Gergely Kulcsár (HUN)
- 1963:
Jānis Lūsis (URS)
- 1965:
Rolf Herings (FRG)
- 1967:
Dave Travis (GBR)
- 1970:
Miklós Németh (HUN)
- 1973:
Jānis Zirnis (URS)
- 1975:
Gheorghe Megelea (ROU)
- 1977:
Vasiliy Yershov (URS)
- 1979:
Helmut Schreiber (FRG)
- 1981:
Dainis Kūla (URS)
- 1983:
Dainis Kūla (URS)
- 1985:
Dumitru Negoiţă (ROU)
- 1987:
Marek Kaleta (URS)
- 1989:
Steve Backley (GBR)
- 1991:
Steve Backley (GBR)
- 1993:
Louis Fouché (RSA)
- 1995:
Zhang Lianbiao (CHN)
- 1997:
Marius Corbett (RSA)
- 1999:
Ēriks Rags (LAT)
- 2001:
Ēriks Rags (LAT)
- 2003:
Igor Janik (POL)
- 2005:
Ainārs Kovals (LAT)
- 2007:
Vadims Vasiļevskis (LAT)
- 2009:
Ainārs Kovals (LAT)
- 2011:
Fatih Avan (TUR)
- 2013:
Dmitriy Tarabin (RUS)
- 2015:
Tanel Laanmäe (EST)
- 2017:
Cheng Chao-tsun (TPE)
- 2019:
Andrian Mardare (MDA)
- 2021:
Edis Matusevičius (LTU)
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