Look at his form as he runs. Smooth and flawless. No energy wasted. An example of practice makes perfect. And he peaked at just the right time.

I and my friends were in high school in 1972 and ran track. We had never seen a sprinter before who ran with such grace and power. To this day no one was more beautiful to watch in the hundred meters.

As a 9 year old boy it killed me to see him win those gold medals. Looking back, I admire his ability and give him all the credit a champion deserves. Seems like a very classy and decent man too....

one of my idols and respected guys

ONE OF MY IDOLS IS VALERI BORZOV

Even as a kid growing up in Kansas, Borzov was a hero to me. He seemed invincible. He truly was the Carl Lewis and Usain Bolt of his time...so dominating.

I had a crush on him at the time! I painted his picture but threw away his picture on the front of Radio Times. A great athlete with a lovely family.

Borzov was so handsome.

Borzov was amazing....

As a little boy Valerie stood out at the Munich olympics.he sticks in my mind as a great athlete

Love to watch him run beautiful form my twin brother and always said he was great sprinter.

ONE OF MY IDOLS AND HEROES

ONE OF MY IDOLS

Даже не верится 🙏🏼😊🥂

many memories of the 1972 Olympics 🏃 🏃

ONE OF MY IDOL IS VALERI BORZOV

Great talent fastest man in the world 1972.

Borzov married the beautiful Ludmilla Turischiva

WOW here I am watching this in 2023 no dropping runners fast dudes

NICE TO WATCH THIS

Look at Borzovs and you see a normal built body comparingly to most runners today looking like body-builders

i wishd im finnish borzov one of my idols and heroes

one of my idols and heroes is valeri borzov

I was in the middle of my high school track career in the Toronto area. I used to train at the South Industries building at the CNE during the winter months. Back then , every February, the local paper , the Toronto Star, held an indoor games at Maple Leaf Gardens. In winter of 1973, one year after the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw Borzov training with the rest of us. He was little taller than I imagined from watching the games on tv. Borzov won the 100 and 200 metres in Munich, thanks to two Americans getting their starting times wrong. Oh well.

Guarantee that track schedule mix up was intentional. It would have been an amazing race to witness with them in it.

one of my idols and heroes

one of my idols

Борзов ,просто человек разумный.

He had a beautiful stride.

NICE TO WATCH IT

Ahh yup I recall this

ONE OF MY IDOLS AND HEROES. I WISHD IM FINNISH BORZOV

one of my idols is valeri borzov

one of the best

one of my idols is borzov

Before the 1972 Games, ABC Sports did a feature on Borzov, using the phrase "scientifically trained to beat the Americans." They showed Borzov anchoring a 4x100 in a dual meet against West Germany. He got the stick down by a good 5-7 meters and ran down WG to lose on a lean. That is the fastest I have ever seen Borzov run. Even more impressive than those Bob Hayes anchors. Borzov was fluid. He did not run as fast in any of his Olympic races as he did on the anchor. His Munich wins were commanding and he could have run faster if pushed.

ONE OF MY IDOLS IS BORZOV

100 and 200 champion very rare talent.

my idol i wishd im sopme day finnish borzov

a good family man!

one of my idols is borzov i wishd im borzov

I styled my starts after him.

Величайший спортсмен и умнейший человек

Borzov and Florence Griffith-Joyner were both a joy to watch run, they were so smooth and relaxed.

I used to watch him as a kid. I was the sprinter myself Wayback in the day and I thought I was hot stuff with my 10.9 in the 100 yard dash in 9 th grade. That’s considered sloooow now🤪

a legend..

Здравствуй МИР! Здравствуй друг! Здравствуй песен щедрый круг! Здравствуй миг! Здравствуй век! Здравствуй! Добрый!Человек!

Borzov retired after the 1972 Olympics. He came out of retirement in 1974 to win the European championship in the 100 meters in a relatively slow time. In 1975 he won several smaller races and showed some of his previous form. While training for the 1976 Olympics Borzov sustained an injury and missed considerable training time. The Valery Borzov that competed in the 1976 Olympics was a pale imitation of the version that dominated the 100 and 200 meter events in 1972. He struggled in the heats and showed no menace. He was fortunate to make the finals and even more surprisingly win a bronze medal. He never bothered to run in the 200 meters. His gold medal winning time in the 200 meters in 1972 would have been good enough to finish second to Usain Bolt in the 2016 Olympics.

That was one fast Commie....always liked to watch him run. So "comfortable" in his strides.

one of my idols i wishd im some day finnish borzov 91.23.57

The coaches who failed to get Eddie Hart and Rey Robinson to the starting line should probably have lived the rest of their lives in exile. Borzov may have won anyway, but Hart and Robinson should have had their chance.

He was a highly talented athlet

i wishd im some day finnish valeri borzov

The perfect Soviet product!

Didn't know he married Lyudmilla

At the time, Borzovs winning time for the 200m was the 3rd fastest in history,and the 2 fastest times had been run at altitude (1968 Mexico Olympics).I think at his peak Borzov would have run 19.75 easily at altitude.

George McNeil from Tranent, Scotland, as everybody in sprinting knows, was the fastest man in the world at that time. He broke the world professional 120 yard record in 11.14 seconds in 1970. It still stands to this day, 2023.

A great champion, but I still can't help but think that if Eddie Hart wasn't told the wrong time by his coach it would have been a lot closer finish. Not saying Borzov would have lost or Hart would have won, but it would have been great.

He was super fast, but he didn’t race against the best of the best that day.

As an English schoolboy sprinter at the time Valeriy was a hero as he was the one I could identify with . I knew nothing of politics . Today I would probably be labelled negatively for this ?

God and men are not supposed to be separate but together

Great sprinter in his day. Today at any major Championship, Borzov would not even get out of the heats, despite modern nutrition and training. Caribbean sprinters will dominate the 100m for decades to come.

Борзов Великий Советский Украинский спортсмен

what is borzov's best 100

I WISHD IM FINNISH BORZOV

He was like the Steve Austin of the Soviet union, we can build a sprinter to do the olympic sprint double .

It wasn't Eddie Hart of Rey Lewis' fault. They were sleeping in bed - their coach screwed up big time. They were devastated.

No mention was made that Quarry was absent through injury but good presentation otherwise.

Eric Liddell

Some free counties too

Man did he close in the 200 or what?

At 8:36 the wife says her happiest day in her life was when she won gold and the second was the birth of her daughter: I guess that lives VB out in the cold...

juiced to the gills

Was there a doping test back then?

paper tubes 😬😗

I met this guy as part of a Ukraine delegation attending a wellness and sport event at a local school where I live. He would have been about 62. Really nice, congenial fellow with a smiling, friendly face.

After two American sprinters were given wrong times, that was a bad Olympics if you remember. Don’t think they drug tested back then either.

Τα σώματα των αθλητών έχουν αλλάξει πολύ μεγάλη διαφορά με τους σημερινους

A 9 month old schedule come on now that seems like sabotage

The last white man to win the Olympic 100 metres dash.

On soupçonnait les russes de dopage à l'époque... Que doit-on penser des athlètes à partir des années 80 jusqu'à aujourd'hui? Les athlètes de l'époque avaient l'air de gens presque ordinaires... et j'avoue que je préfère!

Borzov: better bodies through chemistry! (Which is not to say that his _opponents_ were "unjuiced.")

You can tell early in the video he has a smooth easy way of running nobody could touch him in his day, but it would have been great to see Eddie Hart try. Would have been a great race.

they were deliberately given the incorrect times. as pay back for smith and Carlos 4 years earlier in 68...

Like για το παλιό Καραϊσκάκη.

I remember this clearly and feeling good about a white athlete winning in a black dominated event.

he took gold in both the 100&200. eddie hart and rey Robinson, didn't have the wrong schedule in the first few rounds..plus they qualified for the finals after the semi finals. this tells me industrial sabotage was taken place. someone wanted to punches the black sprinters for smith and carlos black power solute in 68. black fear cause black people to run for the hills. they were black listed in America, but it didn't really matter because America hated us then, and they hate us now..

Ja Borsov tja Bborsov der Borsov , hat die schönste Ljudmila in land bekommen . Zvonimir

One thing. Steroids.

Can you say P.E.D.'s or more bluntly to the point steroids

Steroid abuse is rife amongst sports men and women.

Я продвигаю в массы только одну мысль - негры все равно сильнее. Они были сильнее до Борзова, во время Борзова и после Борзова. Борзов далеко не лучший спринтер. Было когда-то время, когда Борзов действительно блистал на фоне не самых лучших спринтеров мира - в период застоя на спринтерских дистанциях. А далее всё изменилось. К 1978 году он уже был никакой и если рассматривался, как претендент на место в призовой тройке, то скорее уже по инерции, чем по факту.

Borzov was an amazing sprinter and athlete, but he was also likely juiced to the max. The Soviet system didn't regard Borzov as a sprinter. They regarded him as the embodiment of a superior socialistic system -- as running for the glory of the rodina, the homeland, the superpower that was the USSR. The Soviet powers that be likely had him on a cocktail of PEDs and would not have permitted a clean competition because the race in 1972 was not about Borzov; it was a race between socialism and capitalism. Look at the East German athletes in the 1960s through 1980s, especially runner Marita Koch and the female swimmers. Cheaters all. The fact that Borzov didn't shatter world records (10.14 in the 1972 final) does not argue to the contrary. It simply suggests Borzov was not non plus ultra, to begin with, and that the state of the art of cheating had not reached maturity, as it finally did in the 1990s. Today, cheating is industry-wide. With today's PEDs, Borzov might have shattered world records in 1972, but imagine the faster times Jim Hines & Co. could have posted in that era. Subtract the advantages from today's PEDs and synthetic, speed-boosting tracks, and the adjusted times would be only marginally faster than in the early 1980s, but that's not what sells tickets and wins endorsements. Fans want speed, not saints. Sadly, the real pathology on exhibit is how fans of sprinting today happily ignore the fact that their sport is corrupt and will never reclaim its innocence. Today, the real race is between biochemists, not athletes.

CaneFu that video was shot while his country was still communist. Judge not that ye be not judged said Jesus but you wouldn't know that because you don't read the bible. You look at you tube videos but not the most read book of all time. I used to be like you not believing in God or anything but myself. God saved me one evening though when I needed and asked for his help. Now I know he's real and his spirit is in me and those who love him and ask for his spirit through Jesus. By the way God doesn't like us to call each other stupid. I pray that the Lord will soften your heart and show you what true wisdom is.

and yes, the eastern block runners were wired on drugs even before we new about it..

Un gran campeón, pero en 1972, ganador de la medalla de oro en los 100 metros y 200 metros, no era el hombre mas rápido de la tierra, pues dos americanos habían corrido los 100 metros planos por debajo de los 10 segundos. Borzov a pesar de lo gran atleta que fue nunca pudo bajar los 10 segundos en los 100 metros. Sigue teniendo el privilegio de ser el único europeo en ganar los 100 y 200 metros en una olimpiada.

The two favourites for 72 100m were two US men. Because the US coach misread the timetable....he thought 14.00 hrs was FOUR o.clock. So the US lads turned up late. An old timetable was blamed conveniently.

Russia, I don't mess with them,now they destroying Ukraine, Not right, but borzoi he was fast

From the start, he was taught the basics of Soviet Sprinting, which begins with steroids, lots of steroids. I don't care what anyone says, this guy was pumped full of steroids! How many white men have won the Olympic or World sprint championships since then? I believe it is zero.

The Soviets were doing a lot of juicing all those years.