Valery Likhachov
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Valery Nikolayevich Likhachov (russian: Валерий Николаевич Лихачëв; born 5 December 1947) is a retired Russian cyclist. He was part of the Soviet team that won the 100 km team time trial event at the
1970 UCI Road World Championships The 1970 UCI Road World Championships took place from 13 to 16 August 1970 at Mallory Park in Leicester, United Kingdom. Results Medal table External links Men's results* {{UCI Road World Championships UCI Road World Champions ...
and the
1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...
; individually, he finished in 34th place in the road race in 1972. In 1972 he also won the Tour du Maroc and Tour de la Province de Namur. Next year he won six stages of the
Peace Race The Peace Race (german: Friedensfahrt, cs, Závod míru, sk, Preteky mieru, russian: Велогонка Мира (), pl, Wyścig Pokoju , french: Course de la Paix, it, Corsa della Pace, ro, Cursa Păcii) was an annual multiple stage bicycl ...
, finishing third overall; in 1975, he won three stages individually, and the overall race in the team competition.


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1947 births Living people People from Tatarstan Olympic cyclists of the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Cyclists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in cycling Russian male cyclists Soviet male cyclists Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics UCI Road World Champions (elite men) Sportspeople from Tatarstan {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub