Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kirichenko (born 13 August 1967) is a Ukrainian

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

. He won the gold medal in the

1 km time trial The track time trial is a track cycling event where cyclists compete individually against the clock to record the fastest time over the specified distance from a standing start. Time trial bikes Track time trial bikes differ from normal track bik ...

at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

, competing for the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. The first coach for Olympics was Oleksandr Vasylovich Kulyk, which fall in battle in 2022.

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* 1967 births Living people Ukrainian male cyclists Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for the Soviet Union Olympic cyclists for the Unified Team Olympic cyclists for Russia Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in cycling Sportspeople from Kyiv Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Ukrainian track cyclists {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub