Pavel Kolchin
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Games | |||
| Men's Cross country skiing | |||
| Gold | 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | 15 km | |
| Bronze | 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | 30 km | |
| Bronze | 1964 Innsbruck | 4 x 10 km | |
| World Championships | |||
| Silver | 1958 Lahti | 15 km | |
| Silver | 1958 Lahti | 30 km | |
| Silver | 1958 Lahti | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1962 Zakopane | 4 x 10 km | |
Pavel Konstantinovich Kolchin (sometimes spelled Pavel Koltsjin; Russian: Павел Константинович Колчин) (born January 9, 1930 in Yaroslavl) was a Soviet cross-country skier who competed during the 1950s and 1960s, training at Dynamo in Moscow.
He competed in two Winter Olympics, earning a total of four medals. His bronze in the 15 km 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 15 km and 50 km 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 Honor (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.
[edit] External links
- FIS profile (As Pavel Koltsjin.)
- Holmenkollen medalists - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)
- Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)
1936 Finland Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Matti Lähde, & Kalle Jalkanen
1948 Sweden Nils Östensson, Nils Täpp, Gunnar Eriksson, & Martin Lundström
1952 Finland Heikki Hasu, Paavo Lonkila, Urpo Korhonen, & Tapio Mäkelä
1956 Soviet Union Fyodor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolay Anikin, & Vladimir Kuzin
1960 Finland Toimi Alatalo, Eero Mäntyranta, Väinö Huhtala, & Veikko Hakulinen
1964 Sweden Karl-Åke Asph, Sixten Jernberg, Janne Stefansson, & Assar Rönnlund
1968 Norway Odd Martinsen, Pål Tyldum, Harald Grønningen, & Ole Ellefsæter
1972 Soviet Union Vladimir Voronkov, Yuri Skobov, Fyodor Simashev, & Vyacheslav Vedenin
1976 Finland Matti Pitkänen, Juha Mieto, Pertti Teurajärvi, & Arto Koivisto
1980 Soviet Union Vasily Rochev, Nikolay Bazhukov, Yevgeny Belyayev, & Nikolay Zimyatov
1984 Sweden Thomas Wassberg, Benny Tord Kohlberg, Jan Ottosson, Gunde Svan
1988 Sweden Jan Ottosson, Thomas Wassberg, Gunde Svan & Torgny Mogren
1992 Norway Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, Kristen Skjeldal & Bjørn Dæhlie
1994 Italy Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta & Silvio Fauner
1998 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard
2002 Norway Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Kristen Skjeldal, & Thomas Alsgaard
2006 Italy Fulvio Valbusa, Giorgio di Centa, Pietro Piller Cottrer, & Cristian Zorzi
| Preceded by Toralf Engan |
Holmenkollen medal with Alevtina Kolchina, Astrid Sandvik, & Torbjørn Yggeseth 1963 |
Succeeded by Veikko Kankkonen, Eero Mäntyranta, Georg Thoma, & Halvor Næs |
Categories: 1930 births | Competitors at the 1956 Winter Olympics | Competitors at the 1964 Winter Olympics | Dynamo sports society athletes | Holmenkollen medalists | Holmenkollen winners | Olympic cross-country skiers of the Soviet Union | Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union | Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union | Possibly living people | Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour | Soviet cross-country skiers
