Vyacheslav Yemelyanovich Drjagin

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Vyacheslav Drjagin Nordic combination
Full name Vyacheslav Jemeljanowitsch Drjagin
Russian Вячеслав Емельянович Дрягин
nation Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union
birthday September 20, 1940
place of birth KirovRussian SFSR
size 173 cm
Weight 72 kg
date of death February 22, 2002
Career
society Dynamo Kirov
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
bronze 1970 Štrbské Pleso Single (NH)
 

Vyacheslav Jemeljanowitsch Drjagin ( Russian Вячеслав Емельянович Дрягин ; born September 20, 1940 in Kirov ; † February 22, 2002 ) was a Soviet Nordic combined . He competed three times at the Winter Olympics between 1964 and 1972 and won bronze at the 1970 World Cup .

Career

Drjagin celebrated his first major success with seventh place at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , which was also rated as the Nordic World Ski Championships. He reached 10th place in jumping and 12th in cross-country skiing. Four years later at the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble he was eighth in the individual.

Drjagin started two years later at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1970 in Štrbské Pleso . In the individual combination, he won the bronze medal behind Czechoslovak Ladislav Rygl and his compatriot Nikolai Nogowizyn . He only had to admit defeat to it by 0.34 points.

At his third Olympic Winter Games in Sapporo in 1972 , he started again at the age of 31 and was able to achieve 29th place again.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Вятские на зимних Олимпиа. (No longer available online.) In: vk-smi.ru. January 28, 2014, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 1, 2017 (Russian).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / vk-smi.ru  
  2. World Ski Championships 1970 - Men's Individual K90 / 15.0 km in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 1, 2017