The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Sarajevo '84, was a winter multi-sport event held between 8 and 19 February 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. It was the first Winter Olympic Games held in a Slavic language-speaking country, as well as the only Winter Olympics held in a communist country before the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. It was the second consecutive Olympic Games to be so held, after the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event held in Lake Placid, New York, United States, from February 13 to February 24. A total of 1,072 athletes from 37 nations participated in 38 events from 10 different sports.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Myasnikov is a retired field hockey player from Russia, who won the bronze medal with the Men's National Field Hockey Team from the Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He represented the Soviet Union again at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
Aleksandr Vyacheslavovich Golubev is a former Russian speed skater. Very surprisingly he came to the top in the 500 m in Vikingskipet at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. He didn't place in the top three in any other international championship after that. He stands with one individual victory on 500 m in the World Cup from 1993.
Aleksandrs Kerčs is a retired Soviet and Latvian professional ice hockey left winger who played five games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Edmonton Oilers. He also appeared in several World Championships and the 2002 Winter Olympics for the Latvian national team. Previously, he represented the Soviet Union at the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Privalov was a Soviet biathlete.
Alexander Nikolaevich Sidelnikov was a Soviet ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for Krylya Sovetov Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1976. He won a gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Aleksandrs Ņiživijs is a former Latvian professional ice hockey player. His last club was Dinamo Riga of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was also a regular Latvia national ice hockey team player.
Aleksandr Matveyevich Elizarov is a former Soviet biathlete. At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, he won a gold medal with the Soviet relay team, and an individual bronze medal.
Aleksandrs Beļavskis is a former Latvian/Soviet ice hockey player and captain of team Latvia, and current coach for the Latvia men's national ice hockey team. He played for two clubs for most of his player career Dinamo Riga where he started his professional career in 1985 and IF Björklöven. He was a prolific goal scorer and skilled playmaker.
Alexander Vladimirovich Gusev was a Russian Soviet ice hockey player and Olympic champion. He participated at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, where the Soviet team won the gold medal. He played the majority of his career with HC CSKA Moscow.
Sports Reference, LLC is an American company which operates several sports-related websites, including Sports-Reference.com, Baseball-Reference.com for baseball, Basketball-Reference.com for basketball, Hockey-Reference.com for ice hockey, Pro-Football-Reference.com for American football, and FBref.com for association football (soccer). They also operate a subscription based service for statistics, called Stathead. Between 2008 and 2020, Sports Reference also provided pages for the Olympic Games and its competitors.
Alexander Vadimovich Rumyantsev is a Russian speed skater.
Aleksandr Vinogradov is a Russian ice hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Aleksandr Yurievich Alekseyev is a Belarusian ice hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Aleksandr Shumidub was a Belarusian ice hockey player and manager. Shumidud played in the Soviet Hockey League and the Russian Superleague for HC Dinamo Minsk. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1998 Winter Olympics for Belarus.
Aleksandr Safronov was a Soviet speed skater. He competed in the men's 1000 metres events at the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Aleksandr Lebedev is a Russian speed skater. He competed in three events at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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