Valery Alexeyevich Medvedzew

Valery Medvedzew
Full name	Valery Alexeyevich Medvedzew
Association	Soviet Union United Team Russia
birthday	5th July 1964
place of birth	Ustinov
Career
society	Military association
status	resigned
End of career	1994
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 3 × 0 × World Cup medals 4 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 1988 Calgary singles silver 1988 Calgary sprint gold 1988 Calgary Season silver 1992 Albertville Season  Biathlon world championships gold 1986 Oslo singles gold 1986 Oslo sprint gold 1986 Oslo Season gold 1990 Minsk singles bronze 1991 Lahti team silver 1993 Borovets Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	3.  1989/1990
last change: February 1, 2009

Valery Alexejewitsch Medvedzew ( Russian Валерий Алексеевич Медведцев ; born July 5, 1964 in Ustinow ) is a former Russian biathlete. He took part in three Olympic Winter Games and several Biathlon World Championships , some with great success .

Medvedzew trained for the Army Sports Club in Izhevsk. Since the mid-1980s he took part in international men's competitions. At the beginning of the 1986/87 season he won his first race in the Biathlon World Cup with a single in Antholz . The Russian celebrated his greatest successes as a starter for the Soviet Union at the Biathlon World Championships in 1986 at Holmenkollen in Oslo , where he won all three possible titles in the individual, in the sprint and together with Yuri Kaschkarow , Dmitri Wassiljew and Sergei Bulygin in the relay. Medwedzew's permanent competitor for the next few years was Frank-Peter Roetsch , who won the three titles at the 1987 Biathlon World Championships in Lake Placid . Medvedzew was fifth in the sprint, fourth in the individual and won the silver medal in the relay race with Kashkarow, Dmitri Wassiljew and Alexander Popow . At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary he had to admit defeat in the individual and sprint Roetsch and won the silver medals behind the German. With the relay he was able to win the gold medal with Wassiljew, Popow and Sergei Tschepikow as the final runner in the relay.

The 1988/89 season went less well for Medvedzew. In Feistritz an der Drau he achieved less good results than before at the Biathlon World Championships in 1989 with ranks 27 in the individual and 11 in the sprint. But just a year later he was back on the road to success. At the world championships , the Russian came eighth in the sprint and became world champion in the individual. With the relay he reached fifth place, with the team he was fourth. In addition, Medvedzew was third in the overall World Cup ranking . The 1991 World Championships in Lahti brought a seventh place in the sprint and with Anatoli Zhdanovich , Sergei Tarasov and Tschepikow winning the bronze medal in the team competition. The high point of the 1991/92 season was the Winter Olympics in Albertville . There Medvedzew ran to 25th place in the sprint and won the relay silver with Popov, Tschepikow and Valery Kiriyenko . Successes shifted more and more towards the relay competitions. Here he also won the silver medal at the Biathlon World Championships in 1993 in Borovets . Medvedzew's career was completed at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , where he was only used in singles and was 24th there. After his playing career, he became a coach. His wife Olga Medwedzewa-Pyljowa is one of his protégés .

Biathlon World Cup placements

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place	2	1				2	5
2nd place	2	1			1	2	6th
3rd place		1			1		2
Top 10	8th	10			3	5	26th
Scoring	15th	18th			3	5	41
Starts	21st	21st			3	5	50
Status : (data not complete)

Web links

• Valery Alexejewitsch Medwedzew in the IBU database (English)
• Valery Alexejewitsch Medvedzew in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )