Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanenko is a retired race walker who represented the USSR. He won the gold medal over 50 kilometres at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a personal best time of 3:38:29. He also won a silver at the 1986 European Championships and a bronze at the 1987 World Championships.
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 is a retired 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 Nikolayevich Lykho is a retired Russian shot putter who represented the USSR, the Unified Team, and later Russia. He won the bronze medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. He was stripped of his bronze medal won at the 1990 European Championships in Split due to a doping offence.
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 Mariupol, Ukrainian SSR.
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 Chukanov 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.
Vyacheslav Grigorevich Domani is a Russian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Pozdnyakov is a Russian fencer, who has won bronze Olympic medal in the team foil competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Vyacheslav Skomorokhov was a Ukrainian track and field athlete who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was almost deaf since early childhood and also competed in the Deaf World Games in 1961,1969, 1973 and 1977. He also has won medals at the Deaflympics.
Vyacheslav Strakhov is a Russian former diver who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Khrynin is a retired 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.
Vyacheslav Skoromnov is an Uzbek-born Qatari sport shooter. He has been selected to compete for his native Uzbekistan in rifle shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has achieved a total of two medals, a gold and a silver, and numerous top ten finishes in a major international competition, spanning the Asian Games, and the Asian Championships. Currently living in Doha, Qatar since 2010, Skoromnov holds his dual citizenship to compete internationally in shooting.
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.
Vyacheslav Berduta is a Kazakhstani judoka. He competed in the men's heavyweight event at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Vyacheslav Bezukladnikov was a Russian ice hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Vyacheslav Plaksunov is a Belarusian cross-country skier. He competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1998 Winter Olympics.
