Vyacheslav Chukanov
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Vyacheslav Chukanov (born 24 April 1952) is a Soviet
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and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in
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with the Soviet team at the
1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
in Moscow.


Personal life

His son
Andrea Chukanov Andrea Vyacheslavovich Chukanov (russian: Андреа Вячеславович Чуканов; born 18 December 1995) is an Italian-born Russian football player who plays for Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk. Club career He made his debut in the Russian ...
is a professional football player.


References

1952 births Living people Russian male equestrians Soviet male equestrians Olympic equestrians for the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Equestrians at the 1980 Summer Olympics Equestrians at the 1988 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Moscow Olympic medalists in equestrian Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics {{Russia-equestrian-bio-stub