- Yevgeny Belyayev
Yevgeny Prokopievich Belyayev ( _ru. Евгений Прокопьевич Беляев) (
March 20 1954 -March 15 ,2003 ) was a Soviet/Russia n cross-country skier who competed in the 1970s and 1980s, representing the USSR at the international level. Belyayev trained at VSS Trud in Leningrad until 1981 and at Dynamo in the same city since then. [ru icon Great Olympic Encyclopedia, vol.1-2, Moscow:Olympia Press Publisher, 2006, entry on "Евгений Беляев", available [http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/olympic/article/olymp/ol11/ol1-0667.htm online] ] He won the 15 km silver and the 4x10 km bronze at the1976 Winter Olympics inInnsbruck , then followed it with a 4x10 km gold at the1980 Winter Olympics inLake Placid, New York .Belyayev also won two silvers at the
1978 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in the 15 km and the 50 km.References
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* [http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv12n3/johv12n3v.pdf List of Belyayev's death in 2003]
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