Pavel Kolchin
Template:Short description Template:Infobox skier
Pavel Konstantinovich Kolchin (sometimes spelled Pavel Koltsjin; Template:Langx; 9 January 1930 – 29 December 2010) was a Soviet cross-country skier who competed during the 1950s and 1960s, training at Dynamo in Moscow. He was born in Yaroslavl.
He competed in two Winter Olympics, earning a total of four medals. His bronze in the Template:Convert at the 1956 Winter Olympics was the first ever medal awarded to a non-Scandinavian (Finland, Norway, and Sweden) in cross-country skiing. Kolchin also won at the Holmenkollen ski festival, winning both the Template:Convert and Template:Convert events in 1958. His wife, Alevtina Kolchina, was also an Olympic champion in cross-country skiing in 1964.
Kolchin also found success was at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where he won three silver medals in 1958 (15 km, 30 km, and 4 x 10 km) and a bronze medal in 1962 (4 x 10 km).
Kolchin was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (twice - in 1957 and 1972) and Order of the Badge of Honour (1970). For his successes at the Winter Olympics, the Nordic skiing World Championships and the Holmenkollen, Kolchin received the Holmenkollen medal in 1963 (Shared with his Alevtina Kolchina (his wife), Astrid Sandvik, and Torbjørn Yggeseth). Kolchin and Kolchina are the first husband and wife team to ever win the Holmenkollen Medal. Kolchin died on 29 December 2010.
References
- Template:FIS cross-country skier
- Template:Webarchive - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file Template:In lang
- Template:Webarchive - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file Template:In lang
- Template:SR/Olympics profile
Script error: No such module "Navbox". Template:Holmenkollen medal
- Pages with script errors
- 1930 births
- 2010 deaths
- Sportspeople from Yaroslavl
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism, Department of Chess alumni
- Cross-country skiers at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Dynamo Sports Club sportspeople
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
- Holmenkollen medalists
- Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
- Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic cross-country skiers for the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Russian male cross-country skiers
- Soviet male cross-country skiers
- Estonian sports coaches
- 20th-century Russian sportsmen