- Nikolay Anikin
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Medal record 
Nikolay AnikinMen's cross country skiing Competitor for 
Soviet UnionOlympic Games Gold 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 4 x 10 km Bronze 1960 Squaw Valley 4 x 10 km Bronze 1960 Squaw Valley 30 km World Championships Silver 1958 Lahti 4 x 10 km Nikolay Petrovich Anikin (Russian: Николай Петрович Аникин; January 25, 1932, Ishim, Tyumen Oblast, Russia, USSR - November 14, 2009, Duluth, Minnesota, United States) was a Soviet cross-country skier who competed during the late 1950s and early 1960s, training at Dynamo in Moscow.
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Medals
He earned three medals at the Winter Olympics with two medals in the 4x10 km relay (gold: 1956, bronze: 1960) and a bronze in the 30 km (1960). He also earned a silver medal in the 4x10 km relay at the 1958 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.
Awards
He was awarded Order of the Badge of Honor (1957).
Death
Anikin died from cancer at his home in Duluth, Minnesota, aged 77.[1]
References
Categories:- 1932 births
- 2009 deaths
- Cancer deaths in Minnesota
- People from Tyumen Oblast
- Olympic cross-country skiers of the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Soviet cross-country skiers
- Dynamo sports society athletes
- Cross-country skiers at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1960 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
- Soviet Winter Olympic medalist stubs
- Russian cross-country skiing biography stubs
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