Evgeny Petrovich Klevtsov ( March 28, 1929 , Oboyan , Central Black Earth Region - March 24, 2003 ) - Soviet cyclist , bronze medalist at the 1960 Summer Olympics , ( Rome ) in the team race 100 km on the highway. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1959).
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| Date of Birth | March 28, 1929 | ||
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| Date of death | March 24, 2003 (73 years) | ||
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| Specialization | wagon | ||
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 Bronze medalist of the Olympics ( 1960 )Stage 1 World Cycle Race ( 1956 ) Stage 1 World Cycle Race ( 1958 ) | |||
Biography
Multiple champion of the USSR (1950, 1952,?, 1959) in the team race for 100 km and other cycling disciplines. The winner of the World Cycle Race (1956, 1958) as a member of the USSR team that won the team competition, the winner of stage 12 ( Prague ) of World Cycle Race 1956, and stage 8 part b ( Karl-Marx-Stadt ) World Cycle Race 1958 individually. Winner of the Games of the peoples of the USSR 1959 . Yevgeny Klevtsov is the first Kursk Olympic medalist, and the first Kurian is the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1959).
Until 1948 he lived in Oboyan , Kursk region , worked as a mechanic in the MTS. For the first time he took part in cycling competitions in 1948 in Kursk , at the age of 18, and won first place with a large margin. In the same year, he became the best rural racer of Russia at the All-Russian Rural Games in Pyatigorsk , after which he was invited to Moscow, to the club of CDKA .
In this society, and passed his whole sports life. Since 1952 - in the USSR national team. The captain of the first Olympic team of the USSR cyclists team, speaking at the Summer Olympics in 1952 ( Helsinki ), which also included Nikolai Bobarenko , Anatoly Kolesov and Vladimir Kryuchkov , and the Olympic cyclists team at the Summer Olympics in 1960 ( Rome ). After retiring from the sport, he worked as a mechanic of the CSKA team (later CSKA) and the country. Since 2008, the road race “Evgeny Klevtsov Memorial” has been held in Oboyan .
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- profile of Evgenia Klevtsov (English) . - on the Cycling Website. The date of circulation is January 17, 2009. Archived March 24, 2012.
- Evgeny Klevtsov . - The first Kursk Olympic medalist. The date of circulation is January 17, 2009. Archived March 24, 2012.
- “Cyclogeny” Klevtsov was the first of the Kuryans to conquer the Olympics The date of circulation is January 20, 2009. Archived March 24, 2012.