Oleksandr Mykhailovych Batyuk ( uk, Олекса́ндр Миха́йлович Батю́к; born 14 January 1960) is a former

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cross-country skier who competed in the 1980s, training at

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Chernihiv Chernihiv ( uk, Черні́гів, , russian: Черни́гов, ; pl, Czernihów, ; la, Czernihovia), is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within ...

. He won a silver in the 4 × 10 km relay 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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. He is a member of the Ski Federation of Ukraine and the only Olympian of the federation who received medal at Olympics.. Ski Federation of Ukraine Batyuk also won two medals in the 4 × 10 km relay at the

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with a gold in 1982 (tied with

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) and a silver in 1987. His best individual finish was sixth twice in the World Cup (1984, 1986). He was born in

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Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Olympic Games

* 1 medal – (1 silver)

World Championships

* 2 medals – (1 gold, 1 silver)

World Cup

Season standings

Team podiums

* 1 victory * 4 podiums Note: Until the 1999 World Championships and the

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, World Championship and Olympic races were included in the World Cup scoring system.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Batyuk, Alexander 1960 births Living people Sportspeople from Chernihiv Olympic cross-country skiers of the Soviet Union Soviet male cross-country skiers Dynamo sports society athletes Cross-country skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Cross-country skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing Medalists at the 1984 Winter Olympics