Viktor Viktorovich Manakov (cyclist, 1960)

Viktor Viktorovich Manakov

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Date of birth	July 28, 1960
date of death	May 12, 2019
nation	Soviet Union
discipline	Track cycling
Societies)
	St. Petersburg locomotive
Most important successes
Olympic games 1980 - team pursuit (with Valery Mowchan, Vladimir Ossokin and Vitaly Petrakow) UCI track world championships 1979 - team pursuit (with Vyacheslav Yekimov, Alexander Krasnov and Sergei Khmelinin) 1980 - points race 1981 - team pursuit (with Alexander Krasnow, Nikolai Kuznetsov and Alexander Kulikov) 1986 - Team Pursuit (Tinatautas Umaras, Alexander Krasnow and Vyacheslav Jekimov) 1987 - team pursuit (with Vyacheslav Yekimov, Alexander Krasnow and Sergei Khmelinin)
Last updated: April 21, 2014

Viktor Viktorovich Manakov ( Russian Виктор Викторович Манаков ; born July 28, 1960 in Budogoschtsch ; † May 12, 2019 in Moscow ) was a Soviet cyclist and cycling coach.

He started for the IfK Leningrad association. Several times he was Soviet champion in team pursuit and in two-man team driving , in 1979 he was champion in single pursuit. 1978 Viktor Manakov was vice world champion of the juniors in the single pursuit . The following year he won the World Cup silver medal in the team pursuit together with the four from Vassili Ehrlich , Vladimir Ossokin and Vitali Petrakow . At the UCI track world championships in 1980 he was runner-up in the points race .

1980 Viktor Manakow (with Valery Mowtschan , Ossokin and Petrakow) was Olympic champion in the team pursuit. The following year he won another silver medal in the team pursuit. In 1982 he started the Dutch Olympia’s Tour and came third overall. For several years the Soviet Union held a national championship in "six-day individual driving" , which Manakov won in 1982. In 1985 he won a stage of the Tour of Austria . In 1986 he won bronze with the track four at the track world championships, and in 1987 the Soviet team from Manakow, Vyacheslav Yekimov , Alexander Krasnow and Sergei Chmelinin became world champions.

In 1980 Manakow was named an Honored Master of Sport , and after retiring from his playing career, he worked as a coach. He was married to the former cyclist Jolanta Polikevičiūtė , whose twin sister Rasa Polikevičiūtė was 2001 world champion in road racing . The couple has a son, Viktor Manakov , who is now a successful cyclist.

Web links

• Viktor Viktorovich Manakov in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Wiktor Wiktorowitsch Manakow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The sources do not match the composition of this team.
2. ↑ Ушел из жизни олимпийский & #. In: rsport.ria.ru. May 12, 2019, Retrieved May 12, 2019 (Russian). 
3. ^ ^{A b} German Cycling Association of the GDR (Ed.): The cyclist . No. 47/1982 . Berlin, S. 1 .
4. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 35/1979 . Berlin 1979, p. 3 .
5. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 22/1983 . Berlin 1983, p. 3 .
6. ↑ oT. Sport Stories, accessed April 21, 2014 .