Aleksey Borovtin (born 14 February 1954 in Kirov) is a

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ski jumper who competed from 1974 to 1981. He won two bronze medals in the individual normal hill event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (1974, 1978). Borovtin won the ski jumping competition at the 1977

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and also finished 4th in the

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that same year. He also participated in two Winter Olympics with a 15th place in the normal hill event at the

1976 Winter Olympics The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( bar, Innschbruck 1976, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a ...

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as his best result.

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Holmenkollen winners since 1892
- click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file 1954 births Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners Living people Soviet male ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers of the Soviet Union Ski jumpers at the 1976 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 1980 Winter Olympics FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping Sportspeople from Kirov, Kirov Oblast {{USSR-skijumping-bio-stub