Yevgeniy Lyungin

Yevgeniy Lyungin (Russian: Евгений Люнгин; born 8 August 1938) is a former Soviet racewalker who competed in the 50 kilometres race walk distance.

[2] His major international debut came at the 1970 IAAF World Race Walking Cup held in Eschborn, West Germany.

[5] On his return to the competition at the 1975 IAAF World Race Walking Cup he defeated all opponents by a margin of over six minutes, in a new best of 4:03:42 hours.

This performance made Lyungin the only Soviet man ever to win that title at the IAAF World Race Walking Cup.

It was nearly a quarter of a century before a man from a former Soviet country topped the 50 km walk podium (Kazakhstan's Sergey Korepanov doing so in 1999).