Pavel Kolchin

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Medal record
Olympic Games
Men's Cross country skiing
Gold	1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	4 x 10 km
Bronze	1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	15 km
Bronze	1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	30 km
Bronze	1964 Innsbruck	4 x 10 km
World Championships
Silver	1958 Lahti	15 km
Silver	1958 Lahti	30 km
Silver	1958 Lahti	4 x 10 km
Bronze	1962 Zakopane	4 x 10 km

Pavel Konstantinovich Kolchin (sometimes spelled Pavel Koltsjin; Russian: Павел Константинович Колчин) (born January 9, 1930 in Yaroslavl) was a Soviet cross-country skier who competed during the 1950s and 1960s, training at Dynamo in Moscow.

He competed in two Winter Olympics, earning a total of four medals. His bronze in the 15 km at the 1956 Winter Olympics was the first ever medal awarded to a non-Scandinavian (Finland, Norway, and Sweden) in cross-country skiing. Kolchin also won at the Holmenkollen ski festival, winning both the 15 km and 50 km events in 1958. His wife, Alevtina Kolchina, was also an Olympic champion in cross country skiing in 1964.

Kolchin also found success was at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where he won three silver medals in 1958 (15 km, 30 km, and 4 x 10 km) and a bronze medal in 1962 (4 x 10 km).

Kolchin was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (twice - in 1957 and 1972) and Order of the Badge of Honor (1970). For his successes at the Winter Olympics, the Nordic skiing World Championships and the Holmenkollen, Kolchin received the Holmenkollen medal in 1963 (Shared with his Alevtina Kolchina (his wife), Astrid Sandvik, and Torbjørn Yggeseth). Kolchin and Kolchina are the first husband and wife team to ever win the Holmenkollen Medal.

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• Holmenkollen Winners since 1892
• Holmenkollen Medalists
• FIS Profile (Shown as Pavel Koltsjin.)

Olympic champions in men's 4 x 10 km cross country relay

1936 Finland Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Matti Lähde, & Kalle Jalkanen 1948 Sweden Nils Östensson, Nils Täpp, Gunnar Eriksson, & Martin Lundström 1952 Finland Heikki Hasu, Paavo Lonkila, Urpo Korhonen, & Tapio Mäkelä 1956 Soviet Union Fyodor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolai Anikin, & Vladimir Kuzin 1960 Finland Toimi Alatalo, Eero Mäntyranta, Väinö Huhtala, & Veikko Hakulinen 1964 Sweden Karl-Åke Asph, Sixten Jernberg, Janne Stefansson, & Assar Rönnlund 1968 Norway Odd Martinsen, Pål Tyldum, Harald Grønningen, & Ole Ellefsæter 1972 Soviet Union Vladimir Voronkov, Yuri Skobov, Fyodor Simashev, & Vyacheslav Vedenin 1976 Finland Matti Pitkänen, Juha Mieto, Pertti Teurajärvi, & Arto Koivisto 1980 Soviet Union Vasily Rochev, Nikolay Bazhukov, Yevgeniy Belyayev, & Nikolay Zimyatov 1984 Sweden Thomas Wassberg, Benny Tord Kohlberg, Jan Ottosson, Gunde Svan 1988 Sweden Jan Ottosson, Thomas Wassberg, Gunde Svan & Torgny Mogren 1992 Norway Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, Kristen Skjeldal & Bjørn Dæhlie 1994 Italy Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta & Silvio Fauner 1998 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard 2002 Norway Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Kristen Skjeldal, & Thomas Alsgaard 2006 Italy Fulvio Valbusa, Giorgio di Centa, Pietro Piller Cottrer, & Cristian Zorzi

Preceded by Toralf Engan

Holmenkollen medal with Alevtina Kolchina, Astrid Sandvik, & Torbjørn Yggeseth 1963

Succeeded by Veikko Kankkonen, Eero Mäntyranta, Georg Thoma, & Halvor Næs