Ivan Kuzmin

Ivan Nikolayevich Kuzmin (Russian: Иван Николаевич Кузьмин; born April 25, 1962) is a former Russian ski - orienteering.

Kuzmin was born into a sporting family. His mother ran ski; his father was a skier and mountaineer. As a teenager, he started with biathlon, before joining the ski orienteering. From the late 1980s he lived and trained in Sweden, where he met his future wife, Arja Hannu.

Kuzmin was at the World Championships in 1992 in the French Pontarlier on the short and on the long distance behind each Vidar Benjaminsen from Norway and Finland Vesa Mäkipää from third parties. With the CIS season, which also included Viktor Korchagin, Nikolai Bondar and Vladislav Kormtschikow, he won a silver medal. At the World Cup in Italy in 1994, he was short-distance world champion along with the Italians Nicolò Corradini due time equality. He also won the bronze medal with the Russian squadron.

After his career as a player to Kuzmin operated as an editor at various ski magazines. He was awarded " Honored Master of Sports " in 1996.

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