Vadim Kalmykov is a former

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and

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athlete. He represented the Soviet Union at the

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, competing in four events in

and winning gold in all four. He was the USSR's most successful athlete at the 1988 Games. As this was the Soviet Union's first and only participation at the

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, he is the most successful Soviet

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ever. Like all Soviet athletes, he competed in events for the visually impaired; the "B2" category denotes severe visual impairment, falling short of total blindness. After a twelve-year absence, he returned just once to the Games, joining Ukraine's delegation to the

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. He placed sixth in the triple jump, but won the bronze medal in the pentathlon.Paralympic Games results database

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. (Note that for the 2000 Games, the IPC uses the spelling "Vad''y''m Kalmykov".)

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