Vitali Semyonovich Davydov (russian: Виталий Семенович Давыдов), born 1 April 1939 in
Moscow
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, is a retired Russian
ice hockey
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player who spent his entire club career with
Dynamo Moscow
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of the Top Soviet Hockey Championship. On the international stage, he won three Olympic gold medals and nine
World Championship
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titles. He was inducted into the
Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame
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in 1963.
References
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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
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