Vladimir Yuryevich Ossokin

Ossokin (left) together with Juri Zajak on the sidelines of the peace drive in 1977

Vladimir Jurjewitsch Ossokin ( Russian Владимир Юрьевич Осокин ; born January 8, 1954 in Leningrad ) is a former Soviet cyclist who was the 1980 Olympic champion in the team pursuit .

At the cycling world championships in 1975 in Liège, Ossokin won two silver medals: In the final of the single pursuit he was defeated by Thomas Huschke from the GDR, in the team pursuit Vladimir Ossokin, Alexander Perow , Vitali Petrakow and Viktor Sokolov were defeated by the four from the Federal Republic of Germany. A year later at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , both teams faced each other again in the final of the team pursuit, the Soviet four, starting in the same line-up as in the previous year, was again defeated by the German four. In the single pursuit, Ossokin took fourth place. Again he lost to Thomas Huschke, this time in the small final.

In 1977 Ossokin was also successful as a road driver. He won three stages of the peace race, including the individual time trial in Berlin, and came second in the overall standings. In the team classification of the Peace Trip, he was a member of the victorious Soviet team for the second time after 1975. On the track from 1977 to 1979 the four-man from the GDR won the world championship three times in a row. While the Soviet team couldn't win a medal in fourth place in 1977, the four-man was more successful in Munich in 1978 . Together with Wassili Ehrlich and Igor Pilipenko, Ossokin and Petrakow reached the final against the GDR. In 1979 the Soviet four consisted of Ehrlich, Viktor Manakow , Ossokin and Petrakow, these four drivers reached the world championship final in Amsterdam and again won silver behind the GDR four.

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , Valery Mowtschan moved up into the foursome for Ehrlich. In the quarter-finals, the Soviet four-man beat the Australians in 4: 14.64 minutes and undercut the nearly twelve-year-old world record that the German four-man set at the Olympic Games in Mexico City . After the semi-final victory against the four from Czechoslovakia, the four Soviet drivers were in the final, the opponent was the world champion from the GDR, who had changed two positions. The Soviet four-man won the final in 4: 15.70 minutes, again falling below the old world record. Ossokin also started in the individual standings, this time finishing fifth.

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Osokin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Vladimir Osokin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• World Championships in Team Pursuit