Valery Ivanovich Zyganov

Valery Zyganov
Full name	Valery Ivanovich Zyganov
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	14th October 1956 (age 63)
place of birth	Montchegorsk , Soviet Union
Career
discipline	Downhill , giant slalom , combination
status	resigned
End of career	1984
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 1978  Individual world cup victories 1  Overall World Cup 18th ( 1980/81 )  Downhill World Cup 6. (1980/81)  Giant Slalom World Cup 31. ( 1978/79 )  Combination World Cup 7. ( 1979/80 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 1 0 0

Valery Ivanovich Zyganow ( Russian Валерий Иванович Цыганов ; born October 14, 1956 in Montschegorsk ) is a former Russian ski racer from what was then the Soviet Union .

It won the downhill in Aspen on March 5, 1981 and ensured the first World Cup victory for a Russian ski racer. In the same month four more victories for Alexander Schirow followed . He had previously finished eighth in the Downhill at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid .

Web links

• Valery Ivanovich Zyganow in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Valery Ivanovich Zyganow in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Valery Ivanovich Zyganow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )