Vladimir Ilyich Gundarzew

Vladimir Gundarzew
Full name	Vladimir Ilyich Gundarzew
Association	Soviet Union
birthday	December 13, 1944
place of birth	Satka, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Soviet Union
date of death	November 25, 2014
Career
society	Dynamo Moscow
Trainer	WN Butin, GM Luzin Alexander Priwalow
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 × USSR championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1968 Grenoble Season bronze 1968 Grenoble singles  Biathlon world championships bronze 1966 Garmisch-Partenkirchen singles gold 1969 Zakopane Season USSR championships gold 1966 Season gold 1967 Season
World Cup balance
last change: April 29, 2010

Vladimir Ilyich Gundarzew ( Russian Влади́мир Ильи́ч Гундарцев ; born December 13, 1944 in Satka in Chelyabinsk Oblast , Soviet Union ; † November 25, 2014 ) was a Soviet biathlete , Russian biathlon trainer and Olympic champion.

Gundarzew began in 1964 under the coaches WN Butin and GM Luzin with the biathlon sport at Dynamo Moscow. In 1965 he was appointed to the "Sbornaja", the Soviet national team, by coach Alexander Priwalow . His first international appearance was an immediate success, he was at the Biathlon World Championships 1966 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the victory of the Norwegian Jon Istad best number three Soviet athletes who season in the cast Nikolai Meschtscherjakow , Nikolai Pusanow , Gundarzew and Vladimir Melanin was Fourth. The following year he could not take part in the World Cup. Gundarzew won his only world title in the relay, together with Alexander Tichonow , Wiktor Mamatow and Rinnat Safin he won in Zakopane in 1969 .

Gundarzew won the gold medal with the biathlon relay at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble together with Alexander Tichonow, Nikolai Pusanow, Viktor Mamatow and himself as the final runner. The third Norwegian runner, Magnar Solberg , had brought his relay forward with the best individual performance, but Gundarzew was still able to prevail against Jon Istad , the final runner in Norway. In the individual race he had to admit defeat with two penalty minutes to the faultlessly shooting Solberg and the strong runner Tichonow and won the bronze medal.

After the end of his active career, Gundarzew became a biathlon trainer, initially at Dynamo Moscow from 1974 to 1989. From 1989 to 1995 he was the coach of the Russian national team. His protégés included the later Olympic champions Jauhen Redskin and Juri Kaschkarow . He completed his training in 1974 at the Moscow Institute for Physical Culture and Sport and achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel as a member of the army . He received the honors Honored Master of Sports (1968) and Honored Coach of Russia (1992), in addition, he was an honorary citizen of his hometown Satka, where a junior ski race named after him is held every year.

Web links

• Wladimir Ilyich Gundarzew in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Conversation with Gundarzew (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} В. Н. Новоселов (WN Novoselow): ГУНДАРЦЕВ Владимир Ильич (Gundarzew Vladimir Iljitsch) ( Russian ) ИНФОРМАЦИОННАЯ ГРУППА 74.RU - 2003 ЭнециклИпИпЕК - 2003 Энецикло " 2003. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Vladimir Ilyich Gundarzew in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on April 29, 2010
3. ↑ ^{a b} Гундарцев Владимир Ильич (Gundarzew, Vladimir Ilyich) . www.viperson.ru. Retrieved on April 29, 2010.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.