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Full name | Ivan Ivanovych Biakov | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Isakovtsy, Kirovo-Chepetsky District, RSFSR, Soviet Union[1] | 21 September 1944|||||||||||||||||
Died | 4 November 2009 Kyiv, Ukraine | (aged 65)|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Biathlon | |||||||||||||||||
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Teams | 2 (1972, 1976) | |||||||||||||||||
Medals | 2 (2 gold) | |||||||||||||||||
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Teams | 2 (1974, 1975) | |||||||||||||||||
Medals | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
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Ivan Ivanovych Biakov (Russian: Иван Иванович Бяков; 21 September 1944 – 4 November 2009) was a Soviet biathlete.[3]
At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, he won a gold medal with the Soviet relay team. He received another gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.[1] His second team gold Biakov won with help of French biathlon athlete[4] Yvon Mougel.
In 1966 Biakov represented the Kazakhstani team at the People's Spartakiad of the Soviet Union in Sverdlovsk (today Yekaterinburg). Since 1974 Biakov lived in Kyiv[4] and was a director of the Kyiv school of higher sports mastery. In 1992 he was among the founders of the Ukrainian Federation in biathlon becoming its first president.[5]