Dmitrijs Jurkevičs

Dmitrijs Jurkevičs (born 7 January 1987 in Daugavpils) is a Latvian track and field athlete who specialises in middle-distance running. He holds the Latvian record in 1500 metres.

He competed over 1500 metres at the 2005 European Athletics Junior Championships and came sixth in the final. He was a semi-finalist in the 800 metres and the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics. He set an 800 m best of 1:46.44 minutes in Sollentuna in 2008 and improved his 1500 m best to 3:39.69 minutes the following year. In his senior world debut, he was eliminated in the 800 m heats at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. He began to focus on running the 1500 m from 2010 onwards, and he represented Latvia in that event at the 2010 European Athletics Championships.^[1] He achieved a Latvian record over 1500 m in Prague in June 2011 and bettered that mark by over a second and a half to 3:37.35 minutes at the Sollentuna Grand Prix a few weeks later.^[2] He represented Latvia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's 1500 m.^[3]

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• Dmitrijs Jurkevičs at the Latvijas Olimpiskā komiteja (in Latvian) (English translation, archive)

• 1987 births
• Living people
• Sportspeople from Daugavpils
• Latvian male middle-distance runners
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Olympic athletes for Latvia
• Competitors at the 2007 Summer Universiade
• Competitors at the 2011 Summer Universiade
• Competitors at the 2013 Summer Universiade

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