Valery Andreevich Chaplygin

Valery Chaplygin

(2009)
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Full name	Valery Andreevich Chaplygin
Date of birth	May 23, 1952
nation	Soviet Union
discipline	Street
Most important successes
Olympic games Olympic champion team time trial 1976 UCI Road World Championships 1974 : - team time trial 1975 : - team time trial

Valery Andreevich Tschaplygin (Russian: Валерий Андреевич Чаплыгин; born May 23, 1952 in Kursk ) is a former Soviet cyclist and Olympic champion in cycling .

Athletic career

Tschaplygin was a specialist in time trials on the road, but also a strong stage driver . Tschaplygin (also Schaplygin or Chaplygin in German media) was one of the strongest drivers of his time with a height of 1.86 meters and 80 kilograms. In 1973 he won the Baltic Tour (ahead of Aavo Pikkuus ), a stage race that was mainly contested by young riders from Eastern Europe . In 1974 he won the Grand Prix de l'Humanité (French: Grand Prix cycliste de L'Humanité ) in Paris .

At the UCI Road World Championships in 1974 , he and his team won the silver medal in the team time trial . The following year he won the Giro del Bergamasco in Italy before Vittorio Algeri , although the difficult mountain course with his physical dimensions did not suit him. At the UCI Road World Championships in 1975 he was again represented in the Soviet four-man, which was also second again. In 1976 he won the gold medal at the Olympic Summer Games in Montreal in the team time trial with Anatoli Tschukanow , Wladimir Kaminski and Aavo Pikkuus . In the Olympic road race , he finished 39th. He also won the Soviet championship in this discipline in the Olympic year (where he started with the national team, which then became Olympic champion in this line-up). In 1978 he had to take a break for health reasons. In 1979 he competed again and in 1981 ended his career in the national team after the Tour of Austria . Up until then he had contested some of the great amateur country tours and won several stages. He competed in the International Peace Tour in 1975 (4th place), 1977 (52nd place) and 1980 (12th place).

Honors

Tschaplygin became an honorary citizen of his hometown in 2007 .

Web links

Commons : Valery Chaplygin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Valery Andreevich Tschaplygin in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Valery Andreevich Tschaplygin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 39/1976 . Berlin 1976, p. 3 .
2. ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 261 .