Alexander Tikhonov

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Olympic medal record
Men's biathlon
Gold	1968 Grenoble	4 x 7.5 km relay
Gold	1972 Sapporo	4 x 7.5 km relay
Gold	1976 Innsbruck	4 x 7.5 km relay
Gold	1980 Lake Placid	4 x 7.5 km relay
Silver	1968 Grenoble	20 km individual

Alexander Ivanovich Tikhonov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ти́хонов) (born January 2, 1947 in the village of Uyskoye, Kolkhozny District, Chelyabinsk Oblast) is a retired Russian biathlete who represented the USSR. Tikhonov trained at Dynamo in Novosibirsk. He is one of the most winning biathletes of all time, with nine world championship gold medals and four Olympic gold medals. He misses an individual Olympic gold medal in his cupboard, but was taking part to take relay gold medals in 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1980.

He was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1976) and Order of the Red Star (1969). In May 2002, he was chosen as vice president in the International Biathlon Union (IBU). He lived in Austria for several years in the early 2000s.

In 2000, he was accused of participating in planning a murder of Kemerovo Oblast governor Aman Tuleyev. According to the prosecution, a businessman named Mikhail Zhivilo and his company MIKOM had a business conflict with Tuleyev, and Zhivilo decided to organize Tuleyev's murder as revenge. Zhivilo knew Tikhonov and, allegedly, asked him for help. Tikhonov got him in touch with his younger brother, Viktor Tikhonov, who found two potential killers—Vladimir Kharchenko and Sergey Nikanorov. Kharchenko and Nikanorov went to FSB and told them about the murder plans. Viktor Tikhonov was convicted in 2002 to four years of imprisonment. Since Alexander Tikhonov lived in Austria for several years, he was indicted separately from the other accused. He currently lives in Moscow under a written undertaking not to leave the city. [1]

[edit] Achievements

• World Championships
  • 1967 - Silver on the relay
  • 1969 - Gold medal on the 20 km and the relay
  • 1970 - Gold medal on the 20 km and the relay
  • 1971 - Gold medal on the 20 km, silver on the relay
  • 1973 - Gold medal on the 20 km and the relay
  • 1974 - Gold medal on the relay
  • 1975 - Gold medal on the relay
  • 1977 - Gold medal on the 10 km and on the relay, silver on the 20 km
  • 1979 - Silver medal in the 20 km and bronze in the relay

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• (Russian) Biography

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Olympic Champions in Men's 4 x 7.5 km biathlon relay

1968: Soviet Union Alexander Tikhonov, Nikolay Pusanov, Viktor Mamatov & Vladimir Gundartsev * 1972: Soviet Union Alexander Tikhonov, Rinnat Safin, Ivan Biakov & Viktor Mamatov * 1976: Soviet Union Aleksandr Yelizarov, Ivan Biakov & Nikolay K. Kruglov, Alexander Tikhonov * 1980: Soviet Union Vladimir Alikin, Alexander Tikhonov, Vladimir Barnachov & Anatoly Alyabyev * 1984: Soviet Union Dmitri Vassiliev, Yuri Kachkarov, Alguimantas Šalna & Sergey Bulygin * 1988: Soviet Union Dmitri Vassiliev, Sergey Chepikov, 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