Aigars Fadejevs

He won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 50 km race walk, and was named the Latvian Sportsperson of the Year in 2000.[1] He was a champion junior race walker, winning the European U23 Championships in 1997.[2] Fadejevs holds the unofficial world record of 58:23 in the rare 15 km walk distance.Fadejevs quit race walking in 2004 and competed as a marathon runner.[4][5] In 2017, he revealed in an interview that he had experienced depression and fell into alcoholism at the end of his career, but was working to overcome these challenges.
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