Valery Medvedtsev

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Olympic medal record
Men's biathlon
Competitor for the Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union
Gold 1988 Calgary 4 x 7.5 km relay
Silver 1988 Calgary 10 km sprint
Silver 1988 Calgary 20 km individual
Competitor for the the Unified Team Unified Team
Silver 1992 Albertville 4 x 7.5 km relay

Valery Alekseevitch Medvedtsev (or Valeriy) (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Медведцев; born July 5, 1964 in Izhevsk) is a retired Russian biathlete.

He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Izhevsk. At the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, Medvedtsev, competing for the USSR, won two silver medals on the 10 km sprint and the 20 km individual, and also gold medal on the relay. At the 1992 Olympics in Albertville he won a silver medal in the relay competition for the Unified Team. In the World Championships, Medvedtsev has three relay medals gold from 1986 in Oslo, silver from 1987 in Lake Placid and silver from 1993 in Borovets. And he also has two individual gold medals from the World Championships, gold medals on the 20 km from 1986 in Oslo (Holmenkollen ski festival biathlon) and 1989 in Feistritz. He also has one gold medal from the 10 km from 1986 in Oslo (Holmenkollen ski festival biathlon).

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Olympic Champions in Men's 4×7.5 km biathlon relay
1968: Soviet Union Alexander Tikhonov, Nikolay Puzanov, Viktor Mamatov & Vladimir Gundartsev • 1972: Soviet Union Alexander Tikhonov, Rinnat Safin, Ivan Biakov & Viktor Mamatov • 1976: Soviet Union Aleksandr Yelizarov, Ivan Biakov & Nikolay K. Kruglov, Alexander Tikhonov • 1980: Soviet Union Vladimir Alikin, Alexander Tikhonov, Vladimir Barnachov & Anatoly Alyabyev • 1984: Soviet Union Dmitri Vassiliev, Yuri Kashkarov, Algimantas Šalna & Sergey Bulygin • 1988: Soviet Union Dmitri Vassiliev, Sergey Tchepikov, Alexander Popov & Valery Medvedtsev • 1992: Germany Ricco Groß, Jens Steinigen, Mark Kirchner & Fritz Fischer • 1994: Germany Ricco Groß, Frank Luck, Mark Kirchner & Sven Fischer * 1998: Germany Ricco Groß, Peter Sendel, Sven Fischer & Frank Luck • 2002: Norway Halvard Hanevold, Frode Andresen, Egil Gjelland & Ole Einar Bjørndalen • 2006: Germany Sven Fischer, Michael Greis, Ricco Groß & Michael Rösch


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