Kazimír Verkin Explained

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Kazimír Verkin
Birth Date:27 March 1972
Birth Place:Brezno, Czechoslovakia
Weight:680NaN0
Sport:Athletics
Event:Race walking
Club:ASK Dukla Banská Bystrica
Coach:Martin Pupis
Pb:10 km walk: 44:23 (2006)
20 km walk: 1:24:13 (2000)
50 km walk: 3:57:17 (2008)

Kazimír Verkin (born 27 March 1972 in Brezno) is a Slovak race walker.[1] He set a personal best time of 3:57:17, by finishing sixth in the 50 km at the European Athletics Race Walking Permit Meeting in Dudince.[2]

Verkin made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed thirty-sixth in the men's 50 km race walk, with a time of 4:13:11.

Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Verkin qualified for his second Slovak team, as a 36-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by reaching an A-standard time of 4:00:00 from the European Athletics Race Walking Permit Meeting.[2] He successfully finished the 50 km race walk in forty-seventh place by more than a second behind Hungary's Zoltán Czukor, outside his personal best time of 4:21:26.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Kazimír Verkin. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418052853/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ve/kazimir-verkin-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 16 January 2013.
  2. News: World leading time for Poland's Sudol at Race Walking Permit Meeting in Dudince . https://archive.today/20130414200854/http://www.european-athletics.org/8th-european-cup-race-walking/6161-world-leading-time-for-polands-sudol-at-race-walking-permit-meeting-in-dudince.html . dead . 14 April 2013 . . 16 January 2013 .
  3. Web site: Men's 50km Walk . . 16 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120730233608/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DATM095100/standings.html . 30 July 2012 .