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Vyacheslav Vedenin

1941 - 2021

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Vyacheslav Petrovich Vedenin (Russian: Вячесла́в Петро́вич Веденин; 1 October 1941 – 22 October 2021) was a Soviet cross-country skier. His silver medal over 50 km was the only medal won by a Soviet male skier at the 1968 Olympics, as his 4×10 km team placed fourth. At the next Olympics he was the Olympic flag bearer for the Soviet Union and won three medals, with golds in the 30 km and 4×10 km and a bronze in the 50 km. In the 4×10 km event Vedenin ran the last leg and won by 10 seconds, despite starting with a one-minute lag from Norway. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vyacheslav Vedenin is the 1,787th most popular athlete (down from 1,570th in 2019), the 2,245th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,326th in 2019) and the 78th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 1,787 out of 6,025. Before him are Garrett Serviss, Wolfgang Mager, Ross Collinge, Charilaos Vasilakos, Ivan Kizimov, and Leni Schmidt. After him are Zygmunt Chychła, Folke Alnevik, Bill Hobbs, Paula Ivan, Hugo Simon, and Victor Verschueren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 547. Before him are Ulf Sterner, Helga Niessen Masthoff, Takao Sakurai, Bobby Hutcherson, Jagjit Singh, and Rubén Correa. After him are Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Karlo Stipanić, Gordon Tootoosis, Meinhard Nehmer, Tony Dunne, and Bertrand Halperin. Among people deceased in 2021, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 549. Before him are Fayez Tarawneh, Moudud Ahmed, Ottorino Sartor, Aleksandr Klepikov, Hubert Auriol, and Mehdi Cerbah. After him are Raymond T. Odierno, Norm Macdonald, Richard Rush, Raúl Rivero, Enrique Chazarreta, and Willard Scott.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 2,245 out of 3,761. Before him are Denis Urubko (1973), Kazimierz Laskowski (1899), Mischa Zverev (1987), Ivan Kizimov (1928), Aksel Berg (1893), and Vasily Nebenzya (1962). After him are Natalya Andreychenko (1956), Boris Plotnikov (1949), Gennadi Volnov (1939), Olga Morozova (1949), Anna Polina (1989), and Vagiz Khidiyatullin (1959).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 78. Before him are Vladimir Belousov (1946), Vladimir Nevzorov (1952), Maria Golubnichaya (1924), Ellina Zvereva (1960), Aleksandr Klepikov (1950), and Ivan Kizimov (1928). After him are Yury Zaitsev (1951), Nadezhda Ilyina (1949), Olga Kuzenkova (1970), Yury Sisikin (1937), Grigory Mkrtychan (1925), and Tamara Bykova (1958).

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