VLADIMIR PETROVICH VORONKOV

Vladimir Voronkov - Soviet skier, Olympic champion, world champion, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR (1970). He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Physical (1976).

Vladimir Petrovich Voronkov was a Soviet/Russian cross country skier who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, training at the Armed Forces sports society in Moscow. He won the 4 x 10 km gold at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo for the USSR. Voronkov also finished 4th in the 30 km event at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble

He also won a gold medal at the 1970 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in the 4 x 10 km relay.

Sports career Olympic champion in 1972 in the 4x10 km

relay (with Fedor Simashevym, Yuri Skobov and Vyacheslav Vedenin)

Member of the Olympic Games in 1968 - 4th place (30 km), 16th (50 km), 22th (15 km)

At the Olympic Games 1972 - 12th place (15 km)

1970 World Champion (4x10 km relay) 5-time champion of the USSR in 1968 (relay 4

× 10 km), 1970 (15 km and 50 km), 1971 (15 and 70 km)

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