Viktor Potapov
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Birth name | Виктор Яковлевич Потапов | ||||||||||
Full name | Viktor Yakovlevich Potapov | ||||||||||
Born | Dolgoprudny, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR, USSR | 29 March 1947||||||||||
Died | 10 December 2017 Dolgoprudny, Moscow Oblast, Russia | (aged 70)||||||||||
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Class(es) | Finn class | ||||||||||
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Viktor Yakovlevich Potapov (Russian: Виктор Яковлевич Потапов; 29 March 1947 – 10 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian sailor.[1] He won a bronze medal in the Finn class at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
He died in Dolgoprudny as a result of an automobile accident on 10 December 2017.[2][3]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%83_%D0%92._%D0%AF._%D0%B2_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg/220px-%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%83_%D0%92._%D0%AF._%D0%B2_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg)
Memorial plaque to Viktor Potapov in Dolgoprudny
References[]
External links[]
- Profile at sports-reference.com
Categories:
- 1947 births
- 2017 deaths
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in sailing
- Olympic sailors of the Soviet Union
- People from Dolgoprudny
- Road incident deaths in Russia
- Russian male sailors (sport)
- Sailors at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Finn
- Sailors at the 1976 Summer Olympics – 470
- Sailors at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Tornado
- Soviet male sailors (sport)
- World champions in sailing for Russia
- Tornado class world champions
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
- Russian sportspeople stubs
- European yacht racing biography stubs