Vladimir Alikin

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Olympic medal record
Men's Biathlon
Gold	1980 Lake Placid	4 x 7.5 km relay
Silver	1980 Lake Placid	10 km sprint

Vladimir Alexandrovich Alikin (Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Аликин) (born May 10, 1957 in the village of Dolgy Mot near the settlement of Novoilyinsky, Nytvensky District, Perm Oblast) is a retired Soviet/Russial biathlete.

He began cross-country skiing in 1969 at Children and Youth Sport School and biathlon - in 1977. Since 1979 he trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Moscow. At the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York Alikin won a gold medal with the USSR relay team and he also won a silver medal in the sprint event. In the World Championships he has four medals. Bronze from the 10 km in 1982, and three relay bronze medals in 1979, 1981 and 1982.

Olympic champions in men's 4 x 7.5 km biathlon relay

1968 Soviet Union Aleksandr Tikhonov, Nikolay Pusanov, Viktor Mamatov & Vladimir Gundartsev 1972 Soviet Union Aleksandr Tikhonov, Rinnat Safin, Ivan Biakov & Viktor Mamatov 1976 Soviet Union Aleksandr Yelizarov, Ivan Biakov & Nikolay Kruglov, Aleksandr Tikhonov 1980 Soviet Union Vladimir Alikin, Aleksandr Tikhonov, Vladimir Barnachov & Anatoly Alyabyev 1984 Soviet Union Dmitri Vassiliev, Yuriy Kachkarov, Algimantas Shalna & Sergei Buligine 1988 Soviet Union Dmitri Vassiliev, Sergei Tchepikov, Alexander Popov & Valery Medvedtsev 1992 Germany Ricco Gross, Jens Steinigen, Mark Kirchner & Fritz Fischer 1994 Germany Ricco Gross, Frank Luck, Mark Kirchner & Sven Fischer 1998 Germany Ricco Gross, Peter Sendel, Sven Fischer & Frank Luck 2002 Norway Halvard Hanevold, Frode Andresen, Egil Gjelland & Ole Einar Bjørndalen 2006 Germany Sven Fischer, Michael Greis, Ricco Gross & Michael Rösch

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