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World Championships | ||
1985 Cervinia | Two-man |
Nikolay Zhirov (sometimes shown as Nikolai Schirov) is a Soviet bobsledder who competed in the mid-1980s. He won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1985 FIBT World Championships in Cervinia, Italy. [1]
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