Anatoly Nikolayevich Yarkin (russian: Анатолий Николаевич Яркин; born 11 November 1958) is a retired Soviet cyclist. He was part of the Soviet team that won the
time trial event at the
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
. Individually, he finished in sixth place in the
road race, helping
Sergei Sukhoruchenkov and
Yuri Barinov to win the race.
[ Next year, he won a silver medal in the team time trial at the 1981 UCI Road World Championships.][
He retired from the Soviet team in 1984, but a few years later competed for a club in Chile. After that he worked as a cycling coach in ]Samara
Samara ( rus, Сама́ра, p=sɐˈmarə), known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev (; ), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara (Volga), Samara rivers, with ...
and later as a popularizer of mountain biking in Tolyatti
Tolyatti ( rus, Толья́тти, p=tɐlʲˈjætʲ(ː)ɪ), also known as Togliatti, formerly known as Stavropol (1737–1964), is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Samara Oblast, Russia. It is the largest city in Russia which doe ...
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References
1958 births
Living people
Soviet male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for the Soviet Union
Cyclists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in cycling
Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
People from Zaporizhzhia Oblast
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