- Vyacheslav Vedenin
Vyacheslav Petrovitch Vedenin ( _ru. Вячеслав Петрович Веденин; born
October 1 ,1941 in the village of Sloboda, Dubensky District,Tula Oblast Great Russian Encyclopedia (2006),Moscow : Bolshaya Rossiyskaya Entsiklopediya Publisher, vol. 4, p. 692] ) was a Soviet cross country skier who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, training at Dynamo inMoscow .He won the 50 km silver at the
1968 Winter Olympics inGrenoble . Vedenin was the USSR Olympic Team Flag Bearer at the1972 Winter Olympics inSapporo and won three medals there with golds in the 30 km and 4x10 km, and a bronze in the 50 km. In the 4x10 km event Vedenin, starting on the last of four stages, eliminated team's one-minute lag fromNorway , a unique achievement in history of this discipline. Vedenin's gold in the 30 km was the first individual win for a Soviet/Russian male skier in theWinter Olympics .He also won three medals at the
1970 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with two golds (30 km, 4x10 km) and one silver (50 km).Vedenin was awarded
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1970) andOrder of Lenin (1972).Since 1989 a competition "Vedenin's Ski Track" ( _ru. «Лыжня Веденина») is held yearly in
Dubna in his honor.References
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