Sergey Savelyev

Medal record
Men's cross country skiing
Olympic Games
Gold 1976 Innsbruck 30 km
Bronze 1976 Innsbruck 4 × 10 km
World Championships
Gold 1978 Lahti 30 km

Sergey Petrovich Savelyev (Russian: Серге́й Петро́вич Саве́льев; born December 26, 1948 in Raychikhinsk died October 29, 2005 in Moscow [1]) is a retired Russian cross country skier who represented the USSR.

Savelyev trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Moscow. He won two medals a the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck with a gold in the 30 km and a bronze in the 4×10 km. Savelyev also won the 30 km event at the 1978 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti. Savelyev was awarded Order of the Badge of Honor (1976).

External links

  1. ^ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sa/sergey-savelyev-1.html
1956: Veikko Hakulinen (FIN) * 1960 Sixten Jernberg (SWE) * 1964: Eero Mäntyranta (FRA) * 1968: Franco Nones (ITA) * 1972: Vyacheslav Vedenin (URS) * 1976: Sergey Savelyev (URS) * 1980: Nikolay Zimyatov (URS) * 1984: Nikolay Zimyatov (URS) * 1988: Alexey Prokurorov (URS) * 1992: Vegard Ulvang (NOR) * 1994: Thomas Alsgaard (NOR) * 1998: Mika Myllylä (FIN) * 2002: Christian Hoffmann (AUT)
1926: Matti Raivio (FIN) * 1954: Vladimir Kuzin (URS) * 1958: Kalevi Hämäläinen (FIN) * 1962: Eero Mäntyranta (FIN) * 1966: Eero Mäntyranta (FIN) * 1970: Vyacheslav Vedenin (URS) * 1974: Thomas Magnusson (SWE) * 1978: Sergey Savelyev (URS) * 1982: Thomas Eriksson (SWE) * 1985: Gunde Svan (SWE) * 1987: Thomas Wassberg (SWE) * 1989: Vladimir Smirnov (URS) * 1991: Gunde Svan (SWE) * 1993: Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR) * 1995: Vladimir Smirnov (KAZ) * 1997: Alexey Prokurorov (RUS) * 1999: Mika Myllylä (FIN) * 2001: Andrus Veerpalu (EST) * 2003: Thomas Alsgaard (NOR)