Valery Medvedtsev
Valery Alekseyevich Medwedzew (Russian Валерий Алексеевич Медведцев; born July 5, 1964 in Ustinov ) is a retired Russian biathlete. He participated with great success in part in three Olympic Winter Games and several Biathlon World Championships.
Medwedzew trained for the Army Sports Club in Izhevsk. Since the mid- 1980s, he participated in international competitions in the men's area. At the beginning of the 1986/87 season he won in Antholz with a single in his first race in the Biathlon World Cup. His greatest success of Russian as a starter for the Soviet Union at the Biathlon World Championships 1986 at Holmenkollen in Oslo, where he won all three possible titles in singles, Sprint and together with Yuri Kasch Karow, Dmitri Vasilyev and Sergei Bulygin in the relay. Medwedzews time competitor in the coming years, Frank -Peter Roetsch, who won three titles at the Biathlon World Championships 1987 in Lake Placid. Medwedzew was fifth in the sprint, fourth in singles and won with Kasch Karow, Dmitry Vasiliev and Alexander Popov, the silver medal in the relay race. At the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988, he was beaten in singles and Sprint Roetsch and won the silver medals behind the German. With the season he was able to win with Vasilyev, Sergei Popov and Tschepikow as the final runner in the relay gold medal.
Less good was the 1988/89 season for Medwedzew. In Feistritz an der Drau he reached at the Biathlon World Championships in 1989 with ranks 27 in singles and eleven in the sprint less good results than before. But a year later, he returned to winning ways. At the World Championships of the Russian came to eighth place in the sprint and became world champion in singles. With the season he finished fifth, with the team he finished fourth. It was also Medwedzew third in the overall World Cup standings. The 1991 World Championships in Lahti brought a seventh place in the sprint and with Anatoly Schdanowitsch, Sergei Tarasov and won the bronze medal Tschepikow in the team competition. The highlight of the 1991/92 season were the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville. There Medwedzew ran on the 25th place in the sprint and won with Popov and Valery Kiriyenko Tschepikow Season silver. Success shifted more and more towards the relay events. He also won the silver medal at the Biathlon World Championships 1993 in Borovets. Completion of career Medwedzews the Olympic Winter Games in 1994 in Lillehammer, where he was no longer regularly used in individual and there was 24. After his playing career he became a coach. His protégés include, among others, his wife Olga Medvedtseva - Pyljowa.