Valery Chaplygin

Chaplygin in 2009
Personal information
Born	(1952-05-23) 23 May 1952 Kursk, Russia
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	80 kg (180 lb)
Sport
Sport	Cycling
Club	Spartak Kursk
Medal record Competitor for the  Soviet Union Olympic Games Gold 1976 Montreal Team time trial World championships Silver 1974 Montreal Team time trial Silver 1975 Mettet and Yvoir Team time trial Gold 1977 San Cristóbal Team time trial

Valery Andreyevich Chaplygin (Russian: Валерий Андреевич Чаплыгин; born 23 May 1952) is a retired Soviet cyclist. He was part of the Soviet team that won the 100 km team time trial at the 1976 Summer Olympics and 1977 UCI Road World Championships and finished second at the world championships in 1974 and 1975.^[1] He also won three Peace Races in the team competition (1975, 1977 and 1980).^[2]

Individually, he finished in 39th place in the road race at the 1976 Olympics^[3] and won several international races during his career.^[2]

After retirement in 1982 he worked as a cycling coach, and between 1982 and 1985 trained the national team. He then worked at sports club Dynamo, and between 1999 and 2001 was responsible for sports in the administration of Kursk Oblast. Starting from 2005 he competed in cycling in the masters category and taught at the Kursk Technical University. He was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour (1976).^[2]

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