| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Equestrian | ||
Representing the  Soviet Union | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
 | 1980 Moscow | Team jumping |
Vyacheslav Chukanov (born 24 April 1952) is a Soviet equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in show jumping with the Soviet team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. [1]
His son Andrea Chukanov is a professional football player. [2]
The Soviet Union (USSR) was the host nation of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. 489 competitors, 340 men and 149 women, took part in 202 events in 23 sports.
Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Ivanov is a former rower, and one of the most accomplished rowers of his generation. He rowed for the Soviet Union, and he won the Olympic gold medals in the single sculls class at the 1956 Melbourne Games, the 1960 Rome Games and the 1964 Tokyo Games.
Vyacheslav Petrovich Vedenin was a Soviet cross-country skier. His silver medal over 50 km was the only medal won by a Soviet male skier at the 1968 Olympics, as his 4×10 km team placed fourth. At the next Olympics he was the Olympic flag bearer for the Soviet Union and won three medals, with golds in the 30 km and 4×10 km and a bronze in the 50 km. In the 4×10 km event Vedenin ran the last leg and won by 10 seconds, despite starting with a one-minute lag from Norway. His gold in the 30 km was the first individual win for a Soviet male skier at the Winter Olympics.
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lemeshev was an Olympic boxer from the USSR. Soviet physiologists, while examining Lemeshev abilities with electronic measuring devices, discovered his extremely fast, split-second reaction, uncommon not only for boxers, but for the other athletes as well, and decisive when it comes to the counterpunches and cross-counters, in which he was one of the best in the entire middleweight, though severe trauma of the left hand ended his olympic career, and boxing career as well, when resulted in several knockout losses in a row.
Vyacheslav Oliynyk is a former Ukrainian wrestler and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He was born in Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
Anatoly Fomich Sass is a Russian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Vyacheslav Grigorevich Domani is a Russian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Zaytsev is a Russian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics, in the 1980 Summer Olympics, and in the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Vyacheslav, also transliterated Viacheslav or Viatcheslav, is a Russian and Ukrainian masculine given name. It is the equivalent of Belarusian Вячаслаў/Вацлаў, Croatian Vjenceslav, Czech Václav and Polish Wacław and Wieńczysław, which is Latinised as Wenceslaus.
Vyacheslav Strakhov is a Soviet former diver who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Khrynin was a Russian basketball player. Playing for the Soviet team he won a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics, a bronze medal at the 1963 FIBA World Championship, and gold medals at the EuroBasket 1963 and EuroBasket 1965. After retirement he worked as a coach with Dynamo Moscow and a sports functionary with the Soviet basketball federation.
Anatoly Alekseevich Chukanov was a Soviet and Russian cyclist. He was part of the Soviet team that won the 100 km team time trial at the 1976 Summer Olympics and 1977 UCI Road World Championships.
The following lists events that happened during 1930 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Andrea Vyacheslavovich Chukanov is an Italian-born Russian football player who plays for Shinnik Yaroslavl.
Chukanov is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Chukanova. It may refer to
Vyacheslav Kulebyakin is a Soviet hurdler. He competed in the men's 110 metres hurdles at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Vyacheslav Fursov is a Soviet racewalker. He competed in the men's 50 kilometres walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Vyacheslav Melnikov is a Soviet alpine skier. He competed in the men's slalom at the 1956 Winter Olympics.
Wiem Gommies is an Indonesian boxer. He competed in the men's middleweight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. At the 1972 Summer Olympics, he lost to Vyacheslav Lemeshev of the Soviet Union.
Vyacheslav Chechenev is a Soviet field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
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