Ivan Ivanovych Biakov (russian: Иван Иванович Бяков; 21 September 1944 – 4 November 2009) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and shooting sports, rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into sh ...

. At the

1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Europe ...

Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city ...

, he won a gold medal with the Soviet relay team. He received another gold medal 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 ...

in Innsbruck. His second team gold Biakov won with help of French biathlon athlete Yvon Mougel. In 1966 Biakov represented the Kazakhstani team at the People's Spartakiad of the Soviet Union in Sverdlovsk (today

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administra ...

). Since 1974 Biakov lived in KyivSlastnikov, N.P.
How Chepetsk boys were mining for the Olympic "gold" (Как чепецкие парни олимпийское «золото» добывали )
'. Chepetsk.ru. and was a director of the Kyiv school of higher sports mastery. In 1992 he was among the founders of the Ukrainian Federation in biathlon becoming its first president.

Biathlon results

All results are sourced from the

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Olympic Games

''2 medals (2 gold)''

World Championships

:''*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.''

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* * 1944 births 2009 deaths People from Kirovo-Chepetsky District National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport alumni Avanhard (sports society) sportspeople Soviet male biathletes Biathletes at the 1972 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 1976 Winter Olympics Olympic biathletes for the Soviet Union Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in biathlon Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union {{USSR-biathlon-bio-stub