Vladimir Melanin

Melanin Vladimir was born in 1934, Soviet athletes (biathlon), Honored Master of Sports. Olympic champion in 1964 in Innsbruck, the world champion in 1959, 1962-1963 period, repeated winner of the All-Union championships in biathlon.

Three-time biathlon world champion Vladimir Melanin bad start Olympic season in 1964. In the championship of the USSR, which was determined on the basis of commands, send in Innsbruck, he took only fifteenth. Candidacy of thirty veteran met such strong opposition that the coach just to defend it. And they were right.

Competitions shooting skiers were twenty kilometers from the capital of Tyrol in Seefeld. This place was convenient in that it is on all sides was surrounded by walls of mountains, which are securely guarded the route from the treacherous Biathlon warm wind. Vladimir Melanin was the fastest on the ski track, but his precise shooting left nor the slightest chance of his rivals. He opened a long list of Soviet Biathlon - Olympic champions.