Aleksandr Aleksejevich Muzychenko (russian: Александр Алексеевич Музыченко; born 7 May 1955) is a retired

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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

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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.

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Gazete.ru Re: Moscow – 1980

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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 {{Russia-yachtracing-bio-stub