Pavel Kolchin
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Pavel Kolchin
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| Born | (1930-01-09)9 January 1930 Yaroslavl, Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 29 December 2010(2010-12-29) (aged 80) Otepää, Estonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ski club | Dynamo Moscow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Pavel Konstantinovich Kolchin (sometimes spelled Pavel Koltsjin; Russian: Павел Константинович Колчин; 9 January 1930 – 29 December 2010) was a Soviet cross-country skier who competed during the 1950s and 1960s, training at Dynamo in Moscow. He was born in Yaroslavl.
He competed in two Winter Olympics, earning a total of four medals. His bronze in the 15 km (9 mi) at the 1956 Winter Olympics was the first ever medal awarded to a non-Scandinavian (Finland, Norway, and Sweden) in cross-country skiing. Kolchin also won at the Holmenkollen ski festival, winning both the 15 km (9 mi) and 50 km (31 mi) events in 1958. His wife, Alevtina Kolchina, was also an Olympic champion in cross-country skiing in 1964.
Kolchin also found success was at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where he won three silver medals in 1958 (15 km, 30 km, and 4 x 10 km) and a bronze medal in 1962 (4 x 10 km).
Kolchin was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (twice - in 1957 and 1972) and Order of the Badge of Honor (1970). For his successes at the Winter Olympics, the Nordic skiing World Championships and the Holmenkollen, Kolchin received the Holmenkollen medal in 1963 (Shared with his Alevtina Kolchina (his wife), Astrid Sandvik, and Torbjørn Yggeseth). Kolchin and Kolchina are the first husband and wife team to ever win the Holmenkollen Medal. Kolchin died on 29 December 2010.
References[edit]
Pavel Koltsjin. at the International Ski Federation
Holmenkollen medalists at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-02-24) - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)
Holmenkollen winners since 1892 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-02-24) - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)
Pavel Kolchin at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
Olympic champions in men's 4 × 10 km cross-country relay | |
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Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Matti Lähde, Kalle Jalkanen 
Nils Östensson, Nils Täpp, Gunnar Eriksson, Martin Lundström 
Fyodor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolay Anikin, Vladimir Kuzin 
Odd Martinsen, Pål Tyldum, Harald Grønningen, Ole Ellefsæter 
Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta, Silvio Fauner 
Fulvio Valbusa, Giorgio Di Centa, Pietro Piller Cottrer, Cristian Zorzi Categories:
- 1930 births
- Cross-country skiers at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Dynamo sports society athletes
- Holmenkollen medalists
- Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
- 2010 deaths
- Olympic cross-country skiers of the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Soviet male cross-country skiers
- Russian male cross-country skiers
- Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
- Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics
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