Andrei Georgievich Vedernikov (russian: Андрей Георгиевич Ведерников; 1 October 1959 — 29 February 2020) was a Soviet cyclist. In 1981 he became the first Soviet cyclist to win the individual amateur road race at world championships, and was named the road racer of the year by the

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. In 1980, he won the

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. Next year, he won the

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and finished second in the

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. Vedernikov was married and had a daughter, Lena, and a son, Andrei. His brother Mikhail is also a cyclist. He died on February 29, 2020, on the territory of one of the health resorts in Izhevsk as a result of a falling tree.Чемпиона мира по велоспорту насмерть придавило деревом
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