Vladimir Kotov
Olympic athlete
1958 –
Who is Vladimir Kotov?
Vladimir Kotov is a Belarus-born South African long distance runner, who competed for the Soviet Union at the marathon of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. There he finished in fourth place, thirty seconds behind countryman and bronze medalist Setymkul Dzhumanazarov. Kotov has a very long career in athletics, during which he won the Eindhoven Marathon for instance, on October 13, 1991, and the Belgrade Marathon on April 22, 1995. He now lives in South Africa, where he is popular for winning the Comrades Marathon three times, setting the "Up Run" record in 2000. He finished 13th in the 2010 Comrades Marathon.
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