Valery Medvedtsev
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Competitor for the  Soviet Union |
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| Gold | 1988 Calgary | 4 x 7.5 km relay | |
| Silver | 1988 Calgary | 10 km sprint | |
| Silver | 1988 Calgary | 20 km individual | |
Competitor for the  Unified Team |
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| Silver | 1992 Albertville | 4 x 7.5 km relay | |
Valery Alekseevitch Medvedtsev (or Valeriy) (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Медведцев) (born July 5, 1964 in Izhevsk) is a retired Russian biathlete.
He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Izhevsk. At the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, Medvedtsev, competing for the USSR, won two silver medals on the 10 km sprint and the 20 km individual, and also gold medal on the relay. At the 1992 Olympics in Albertville he won a silver medal in the relay competition for the Unified Team. In the World Championships, Medvedtsev has three relay medals gold from 1986 in Oslo, silver from 1987 in Lake Placid and silver from 1993 in Borovets. And he also has two individual gold medals from the World Championships, gold medals on the 20 km from 1986 in Oslo (Holmenkollen ski festival biathlon) and 1989 in Feistritz. He also has one gold medal from the 10 km from 1986 in Oslo (Holmenkollen ski festival biathlon).
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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
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