Vladimir Dolgov
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Born | Kharkiv, USSR | 11 May 1960|||||||||||||||||||
Died | 10 January 2022 North Carolina, U.S. | (aged 61)|||||||||||||||||||
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Vladimir Genrikhovich Dolgov (Russian: Владимир Генрихович Долгов, 11 May 1960 – 10 January 2022) was a backstroke swimmer from the Soviet Union.[1] He won the bronze medal in the men's 100m backstroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.[2] He later emigrated to the United States, working as a swimming coach for Sailfish Aquatics at Huntersville Family Fitness & Aquatics in North Carolina.
Dolgov died from stomach cancer on 10 January 2022, at the age of 61.[3]
References[]
- ^ databaseOlympics
- ^ Sports Reference profile
- ^ Edmund, Emma (10 January 2022). "Olympic Medalist and Sailfish Aquatics Coach Vladimir Dolgov Dies at 61". Swim Swam. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
External links[]
- Vladimir Dolgov at Olympedia
- Vladimir Dolgov at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1960 births
- 2022 deaths
- Russian male swimmers
- Soviet male swimmers
- Male backstroke swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Universiade medalists in swimming
- Universiade silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Medalists at the 1981 Summer Universiade
- Sportspeople from Kharkiv
- Deaths from cancer in North Carolina
- Deaths from stomach cancer
- Soviet sportspeople stubs
- Russian swimming biography stubs