- Valery Muratov
Valery Alekseyevich Muratov ( _ru. Валерий Алексеевич Муратов) (born
May 1 ,1946 inKolomna cite book|title=Panorama of the 1972 Sports Year|year=1973|pages=p. 50|publisher=Fizkultura i sport|location=Moscow|language=Russian] ) is a former ice speed skater from the USSR, who represented his native country in three consecutiveWinter Olympics , starting in 1968 inGrenoble, France . He trained inKolomna at Burevestnik and later at the Armed Forces sports society.cite book|title=All about Olympic Games.|author=Boris Khavin|publisher=Fizkultura i sport|edition = 2nd ed.|pages=p. 424|year=1979|location=Moscow|language=Russian]Muratov began speed skating in 1962 and became a member of the USSR National Team in 1966. Muratov won the first unofficial World Sprint Championships in 1970, and was runner-up in the first official World Sprint Championships in 1972. The next year he won the World Sprint Title. He never captured any Olympic title, but he got a bronze medal in 1972 and both silver and bronze in the
1976 Winter Olympics . He was five times national sprint champion. In 1970 he set a new 500 m world record three times, but he never got to keep for more than a few weeks.He started a successful career as coach for the Soviet Union (and later
Russia n) speed skating team, guiding World Sprint ChampionsSergey Khlebnikov andIgor Zhelezovsky .In 1972 Muratov was awarded the
Medal For Labour Heroism .References
External links
*ru icon [http://www.speedskating.ru/faces/muratov.html Biography and photos]
* [http://www.skateresults.com/skater/show/756 SkateResults]
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