Vladimir Alikin
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Vladimir Alexandrovich Alikin ' onMouseout='HidePop("99975")' href="/topics/Nytvensky_District">Nytvensky District
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, Perm Oblast
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) is a retired Soviet
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/Russia
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n biathlete
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Alikin began cross-country skiing
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 in 1969 at Children and Youth Sport School and biathlon - in 1977. Since 1979 he trained at the Armed Forces sports society
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 in Moscow
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. At the 1980 Olympics
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 in Lake Placid, New York
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 Alikin won a gold medal with the USSR
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 relay team and he also won a silver medal in the sprint event. In the World Championships
Biathlon World Championships
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 he has four medals: bronze in 10 km sprint in 1982, and three relay bronze medals in 1979, 1981, and 1982. He also won the 1980 Biathlon World Cup
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in 10 km sprint and USSR Championships in the same event.

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