Aleksandr Aleksejevich Muzychenko (russian: Александр Алексеевич Музыченко; born 7 May 1955) is a retired
Soviet
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Russian
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sailor, Olympic champion for the
USSR team.
He started to sail in the age of 6, in Omsk, at the river Irtish, He scored his Olympic triumph in star class at the
1980 Summer Olympics in
Tallinn
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, together with
Valentyn Mankin
Valentyn Grigoryevich Mankin (russian: Валентин Григорьевич Манкин; 19 August 1938 – 1 June 2014) was a Soviet/ Ukrainian sailor from Kyiv, three times Olympic champion for the USSR team.
Life
Mankin was Jewish.
He ...
.
Now Aleksandr Muzychenko lives in
Latvia,
Riga and sails the Dragon class.
Bibliography
Bibliographic libraryGazete.ru Re: Moscow – 1980
References
External links
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1955 births
Living people
Soviet male sailors (sport)
Russian male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for the Soviet Union
Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in sailing
Sailors at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Star
Sportspeople from Omsk
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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