Veniamin Vasilievich Soldatenko (Russian: Вениамин Васильевич Солдатенко, 4 January 1939 – 15 July 2023) was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 50 km walk.

Soldatenko took up athletics in 1962 and became a member of the USSR National Team in 1967.

[1] He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal.

[1] Soldatenko was the first ever IAAF world champion and remains the oldest male world champion in athletics, having taken his 50 km walk title at 37 years and 258 days.

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