Soviet sprinter
Aleksandr Olegovich Kornelyuk (Russian : Александр Олегович Корнелюк ; born 28 June 1950 in Baku [ 1] ) was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He trained at Dynamo in Moscow .[ 2]
Kornelyuk began athletics in 1963 and became a member of the USSR National Team in 1970.[ 1] He competed for the USSR in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich , Germany in the 4 × 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Vladimir Lovetskiy , Juris Silovs and Valeriy Borzov . Kornelyuk also won a 50 m silver medal at the 1972 European Indoor Championships behind his teammate Borzov.
In 1972 Kornelyuk was awarded the Medal For Labour Heroism.[ 1]
References
^ a b c Panorama of the 1972 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport . 1973. p. 118.
^ Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport . p. 388.