- Mikhail Ivanov (cross-country skier)
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Medal record
Ivanov (right) in 2002.Men's cross country skiing Olympic Games Gold 2002 Salt Lake City 50 km World Championships Bronze 2001 Lahti 30 km Mikhail Ivanov (born November 20, 1977 in Ostrov, Pskov Oblast) is a Russian cross country skier who competed since 1996. He finished 2nd in the 50km at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City to Spain's Johann Mühlegg, but was awarded the gold medal in 2004 upon Mühlegg's blood-doping disqualification of darbepoetin.
Ivanov's won the bronze medal in the 30 km event at the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti. He also won two World Cup events in his career (30km: 2000, 15km: 2001).
References
Olympic champions in men's 50 km cross-country 1924: Thorleif Haug (NOR) * 1928: Per-Erik Hedlund (SWE) * 1932: Veli Saarinen (FIN) * 1936: Elis Wiklund (SWE) * 1948: Nils Karlsson (SWE) * 1952: Veikko Hakulinen (FIN) * 1956: Sixten Jernberg (SWE) * 1960: Kalevi Hämäläinen (FIN) * 1964: Sixten Jernberg (SWE) * 1968: Ole Ellefsæter (NOR) * 1972: Pål Tyldum (NOR) * 1976: Ivar Formo (NOR) * 1980: Nikolay Zimyatov (URS) * 1984: Thomas Wassberg (SWE) * 1988: Gunde Svan (SWE) * 1992: Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR) * 1994: Vladimir Smirnov (KAZ) * 1998: Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR) * 2002: Mikhail Ivanov (RUS) * 2006: Giorgio Di Centa (ITA) * 2010: Petter Northug (NOR)Categories:- 1977 births
- Living people
- People from Ostrov, Pskov Oblast
- Russian cross-country skiers
- Cross-country skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Olympic cross-country skiers of Russia
- Olympic gold medalists for Russia
- Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
- Russian cross-country skiing biography stubs
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