Nikolai Kovsh (born 22 January 1965) is a

cyclist Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from two ...

from

Soviet Union 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, ...

. He competed for the Soviet Union in the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

held in

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 of ...

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in the individual sprint event where he finished in second place. He also competed for the

Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics The Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics (russian: Объединённая команда на летних Олимпийских играх 1992) in Barcelona, Spain, was a joint team consisting of twelve of the fifteen former Soviet Union ...

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1965 births Living people Russian male cyclists Soviet male cyclists Olympic cyclists for the Soviet Union Olympic cyclists for the Unified Team Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in cycling Cyclists from Moscow Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics {{USSR-cycling-bio-stub