Ihar Dolbik

Ihar Dolbik (born October 20, 1958) is a Belarusian masters long distance runner and marathoner. He won the 2015 World Masters Athletics Championships M55 Marathon and 8000 metres cross country event held near Lyon, France. During that same week, he also placed second at 5,000 metres and third at 10,000 metres. He finished second at the Half-Marathon event portion of the 2014 World Indoor Masters Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
At the 2014 European Veterans Athletics Championships in Izmir, Turkey, Dolbik was the M55 Champion in the 10,000 metres winning with 35:12.44, putting multiple laps on the second-place finisher. A week later, he was also won the Marathon, his time of 2:48:04 was faster than the winning times in the M50 and M45 divisions. At the 2012 Championships in the tri-country area near Zittau (as one of the older runners in his age division), he finished second in the M50 division.
He runs for Club Victoria from Minsk. When club president Sergey Koval was interviewed by Belarus magazine in 2014, about the members of the club, he singled out Dolbik as "one of the best in the world and twice took 2nd place in the World Championships among veterans."
Ihar also finished second in the M55 division at the 2015 Berlin Marathon. His time of 2:41:46 was the fastest of the Belorussian delegation. That time also ranked him #9 over all in 2015 for the nation of Belarus.
He finished second at the 2015 European Masters Half Marathon in Grosseto, Italy.
His personal best, achieved just short of his 52nd birthday is 2:38:16, set in Minsk. He finished fourth overall in the 2012 Moscow Marathon Luzhniki in Russia. He was the M50 winner of the 2011 White Nights Marathon in St. Petersburg.

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