Markku Taskinen
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Born | (1952-02-25) 25 February 1952 (age 72) Kuusamo, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Viipurin Urheilijat | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 400 m: 47.12 (1975) 800 m:1:45.89 (1974) 400 m hurdles: 51.92 (1979) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Markku Aulis Taskinen (born 25 February 1952) is a Finnish former athlete. At the 1974 European Championships he won bronze medals in both the 800 metres and the 4 × 400 metres relay. He was European indoor champion at 800 metres in 1978.
Career
Taskinen was Finnish national under-19 champion at 800 m in 1970 and national under-21 champion at both 400 m and 800 m in 1971.[1] He won his first national senior titles in 1973, winning both 400 m (47.9) and 800 m (1:50.0) at the Finnish championships.[1] He repeated as 800 m champion in 1974,[1] but was not expected to even make the final at that year's European Championships in Rome.[2]
At the European championships he placed third in his heat (1:48.7) and fourth in his semi-final (1:47.7); he was the last athlete to qualify for the final.[3] In the final he was in last place with less than 100 m to go, but passed five athletes on the final straight and won bronze behind Luciano Sušanj and Steve Ovett;[2] his time of 1:45.89 improved his personal best by more than a second and a half.[1] He won a second medal in the 4 × 400 m relay, running the third leg for the Finnish team; Finland was disqualified for shoving after a French protest, but filed a successful counter-protest and regained the medal.[2]
Taskinen won further Finnish 800 m titles in 1975, 1976 and 1978; counting indoor titles (one each at 400 m and 800 m) and relay titles (one at 4 × 400 m and two at 4 × 800 m), he is an 11-time Finnish champion.[1] At the 1978 European Indoor Championships in Milan he won gold in the 800 metres, ahead of East Germany's Olaf Beyer;[4] as of 2014[update], his winning time of 1:47.36 still remains the Finnish indoor record, though Wilson Kirwa and Ari Suhonen have run faster on oversized tracks.[5] At the 1978 European outdoor championships in Prague Taskinen again took part in the 800 metres, but was eliminated in the semi-finals.[3]
In 1979 Taskinen experimented with the 400 m hurdles, representing Finland in that event at the Finland-Sweden Athletics International and winning silver in it at the national championships.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Markku Taskinen at Tilastopaja (in Finnish) (registration required)
- ^ a b c "Osa 11, Rooma 1974: Kymmenen mitalin mahtipeijaiset" (in Finnish). Yleisurheilun Kuvalehti. Archived from the original on 17 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ^ a b Jalava, Mirko (2014). "European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014: Statistics Handbook" (PDF). European Athletics. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
- ^ Jalava, Mirko (ed.). 2013 European Indoor Championships Statistics Handbook (PDF). European Athletics. p. 494.
- ^ Jalava, Juhani. "Suomen kaikkien aikojen hallitilasto" (in Finnish). Tilastopaja.
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- 1966:
Noel Carroll (IRL)
- 1966:
Noel Carroll (IRL)
- 1968:
Noel Carroll (IRL)
- 1969:
Dieter Fromm (GDR)
- 1970:
Yevhen Arzhanov (URS)
- 1971:
Yevhen Arzhanov (URS)
- 1972:
Jozef Plachý (TCH)
- 1973:
Francis Gonzalez (FRA)
- 1974:
Luciano Sušanj (YUG)
- 1975:
Gerhard Stolle (GDR)
- 1976:
Ivo Van Damme (BEL)
- 1977:
Sebastian Coe (GBR)
- 1978:
Markku Taskinen (FIN)
- 1979:
Antonio Páez (ESP)
- 1980:
Roger Milhau (FRA)
- 1981:
Herbert Wursthorn (FRG)
- 1982:
Antonio Páez (ESP)
- 1983:
Colomán Trabado (ESP)
- 1984:
Donato Sabia (ITA)
- 1985:
Rob Harrison (GBR)
- 1986:
Peter Braun (FRG)
- 1987:
Rob Druppers (NED)
- 1988:
David Sharpe (GBR)
- 1989:
Steve Heard (GBR)
- 1990:
Tom McKean (GBR)
- 1992:
Luis Javier González (ESP)
- 1994:
Andrey Loginov (RUS)
- 1996:
Roberto Parra (ESP)
- 1998:
Nils Schumann (GER)
- 2000:
Yuriy Borzakovskiy (RUS)
- 2002:
Paweł Czapiewski (POL)
- 2005:
Dmitry Bogdanov (RUS)
- 2007:
Arnoud Okken (NED)
- 2009:
Yuriy Borzakovskiy (RUS)
- 2011:
Adam Kszczot (POL)
- 2013:
Adam Kszczot (POL)
- 2015:
Marcin Lewandowski (POL)
- 2017:
Adam Kszczot (POL)
- 2019:
Álvaro de Arriba (POR)
- 2021:
Patryk Dobek (POL)
- 2023:
Adrián Ben (ESP)