Vladimir Konstantinovich Schmeljow

Vladimir Schmeljow medal table
Modern pentathlon
Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold	Munich 1972	team

Wladimir Konstantinowitsch Schmeljow ( Russian Владимир Константинович Шмелёв ; born  August 31, 1946 in Magadan ) is a former Soviet pentathlete .

Career

Shmelev took in 1972 at the Olympics in Munich in part in individual and team competition. In the individual, he missed a medal in fifth place. With the team, which included Borys Onyshchenko and Pavel Lednjow in addition to Minejew , he became Olympic champion .

At world championships he won the team competitions with Onyshchenko and Lednyov in 1973 and 1974 . In these competitions he was both times behind Lednyov and before Onyshchenko vice world champion. 1975 followed again a third place with the team. In 1971 and 1972 he became Soviet champion. After his active career he worked as a pentathlon coach.

Web links

• Wladimir Schmeljow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )