Viktor Kasatkin

Career In May 1965, Kasatkin set his 200 metres personal best of 21.4 seconds at a meet in Baku.

In March 1966, Kasatkin entered the 60 metres at the inaugural European Athletics Indoor Championships. After running 6.7 in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, Kasatkin improved by 0.1 seconds in the finals, running 6.6 seconds alongside Barrie Kelly and Heinz Erbstößer. All three were assigned the same winning time and the 60 metres world record, though the gold medal was given to Kelly, silver to Erbstößer, and bronze to Kasatkin. After the race, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan praised his ability to accelerate but critiqued his running technique.

Outdoors in 1966, Kasatkin won the 4 × 100 m relay at the Soviet Athletics Championships. He also set his 100 metres personal best of 10.3 seconds at a meet in Odessa on 2 July.

In 1967, the European Indoor Championships had changed the shortest sprint distance from 60 m to 50 metres. At the championships, Kasatkin won his quarter-final with a 5.7 second-clocking and was runner-up in his semi-final. He again won the bronze medal in the finals, recording a 5.9-second time behind Pasquale Giannattasio and Aleksandr Lebedev. He represented the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and the Soviet Armed Forces in competition.