Ildar Garifullin (russian: Ильдар Гарифуппин); born 27 May 1963 in
Ufa) is a former
Soviet
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Russia
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nordic combined skier who competed in the early 1980s. He won a bronze medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the
1984 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
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Rovaniemi
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. Garifullin's best individual finish was 5th in
West Germany
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in 1984.
He also competed in the
Nordic combined event at the
1984 Winter Olympics
The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр ...
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1963 births
Living people
Soviet male Nordic combined skiers
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined
Russian male Nordic combined skiers
Olympic Nordic combined skiers of the Soviet Union
Nordic combined skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Ufa
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