Borys Yakovlev

Borys Yakovlev was a Soviet-Ukrainian race walker.

Career

Yakovlev competed in both the 20 [km walk] and the 50 km walk. He represented the Soviet Union at 20 km in the European Athletics Championships of 1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's [20 kilometres walk|1969], 1971 and 1978, always placing in the top eight with a best result of fourth place in 1978. At the 1980 Summer Olympics he competed at the longer distance, but failed to finish.
Track & Field News ranked Yakovlev in the world's top 10 at 20 kilometres four times between 1970 and 1979, when his ranking peaked at #3. In 1979 he placed third behind fellow Ukrainians Mykola Vynnychenko and Anatoliy Solomin at the Soviet Spartakiad|Soviet Spartakiad] and second behind Mexico's Daniel Bautista at the 1979 IAAF World Race Walking Cup; he was ranked behind Bautista and another Mexican, Domingo Colín, and ahead of the other top Soviets.
Yakovlev later became a coach in Ukraine.