Volodymyr Stepanovych Holubnychy was a Soviet and Ukrainian race walker, who competed for the Soviet Union. He dominated the 20 kilometre race walk in the 1960s and 1970s, winning four Olympic medals from 1960 to 1972 and finishing seventh in 1976. He became Olympic champion in 1960 and 1968. He is regarded as one of the greatest race walkers of all time and competed at the Olympics on five occasions in 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976.
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 317 competitors, 254 men and 63 women, took part in 154 events in 19 sports.
Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Lukashenko is a Ukrainian sabre fencer.
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. 272 competitors, 233 men and 39 women, took part in 135 events in 17 sports.
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. 312 competitors, 246 men and 66 women, took part in 164 events in 18 sports.
Volodymyr Pulnikov is a Ukrainian former road racing cyclist.
Volodymyr Ivanovich Byelyayev is a Ukrainian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Shatskykh is a Ukrainian former Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler who represented his country at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. He won his division at the 2006 World Championships.
Vladimir Nikolaevich Belyaev was a Soviet weightlifter, World champion (1966) and Olympic medalist (1968) who competed for the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Ivanovich Synyavsky was a lightweight freestyle wrestler from Ukraine who won a world title in 1959 and placed second at the 1960 Olympics and 1961 World Championships. At the 1959 World Championships he won all his opponents by fall.
Nikolay Fyodorovich Balboshin is a retired Soviet heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler. He rarely lost a bout in the 1970s, winning five world titles, six European titles, and an Olympics gold medal in 1976. At the 1976 Olympics he pinned all his five opponents, in total spending less than 17 minutes on the mat. He was the Soviet flag bearer and a clear favorite at the Moscow Olympics, but injured an Achilles tendon in the second bout and withdrew from the tournament. He recovered by 1984, when he won his last Soviet title and was selected for the 1984 Games, but could not compete because of the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott by the Soviet Union. He retired from competitions to become a wrestling coach n Moscow. In 2006 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Vladimir Popov is a Russian former wrestler who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics. Vladimir Popov took up wrestling in 1973 and made the Soviet national team in 1986.
Vladimir Cheboksarov is a Russian former wrestler who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Vladimir Anatolievich Zubkov is a retired Greco-Roman wrestler from Russia. He won the world light-flyweight title in 1971 and 1973–1975, placing second in 1970, and competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics. After retiring from competitions he worked as a wrestling coach, and is currently training the Austrian national team.
Megdiin Khoilogdorj is a Mongolian former wrestler who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Konstantin Schneider is an amateur German Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's middleweight category. He won a silver medal for his division at the 2003 World Wrestling Championships in Créteil, France, and bronze at the 2005 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Schneider is also a member of the wrestling team for KSV Köllerbach in Püttlingen, and is coached and trained by his father Heinrich Schneider.
Mohammad Reza Babulfath is a retired amateur Iranian Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's middleweight category. Babulfath obtained a fourth position in the 74-kg division at the 2003 European Championships in Riga, Latvia, and also represented his naturalized homeland Sweden at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Before his sporting career ended in 2008, Babulfath trained for Spårvägens Sports Club in Stockholm, under Polish-born personal coach Ryszard Swierad.
Vladimir Tkachenko is a Ukrainian former swimmer who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Volodymyr Atamas is a Soviet sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Vladimir Kopytov is a Belarusian former wrestler. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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