Vitali Semyonovich Davydov (russian: Виталий Семенович Давыдов), born 1 April 1939 in

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, is a retired Russian

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player who spent his entire club career with

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of the Top Soviet Hockey Championship. On the international stage, he won three Olympic gold medals and nine

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titles. He was inducted into the

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in 1963.

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* 1939 births Russian ice hockey defencemen Soviet ice hockey defencemen Ice hockey people from Moscow HC Dynamo Moscow players Ice hockey players at the 1964 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1968 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1972 Winter Olympics IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Living people Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Merited Coaches of the Soviet Union Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1968 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic ice hockey players of the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in ice hockey {{USSR-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub