Vladimir Petrovich Voronkov (russian: Владимир Петрович Воронков; 20 March 1944 – 25 September 2018)Died Vladimir Voronkov
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cross-country skier Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, training at the Armed Forces sports society in

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. He won the 4 x 10 km gold at the

1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Europe ...

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for the

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. Voronkov also finished 4th in the 30 km event at the

1968 Winter Olympics The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (french: Les Xes Jeux olympiques d'hiver), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 18 February 1968 in Grenoble, France. Thirty-seven countries participated. Frenchm ...

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He also won a gold medal at the

1970 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1970 took place 14–22 February 1970 in Vysoké Tatry, Czechoslovakia (present-day Slovakia). This was the second time this city hosted the event having done so in 1935. It was the first time an event was tel ...

in the 4 x 10 km relay.

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* * 1944 births 2018 deaths Olympic cross-country skiers of the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Soviet male cross-country skiers Russian male cross-country skiers Cross-country skiers at the 1968 Winter Olympics Cross-country skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics Armed Forces sports society athletes Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics People from Komsomolsky District, Chuvash Republic Sportspeople from Chuvashia {{USSR-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub