Valeri Kalachikhin
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| Full name | Valeri Alexeyevich Kalachikhin | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Валерий Алексеевич Калачихин | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Russian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 May 1939 Leningradskaya, Krasnodar Krai, Russian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 27 November 2014 (aged 75) Rostov-on-Don, Russia | ||||||||||||||
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Valeri Alexeyevich Kalachikhin (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Калачихин, 20 May 1939 – 27 November 2014) was a Russian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in the Sovkhoz Vtoraya Pyatiletka near Leningradskaya, Krasnodar Krai. In 1964, he was part of the Soviet team, which won the gold medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all nine matches.
External links
[edit]- Valery Kalachikhin at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Valeri Kalachikhin at Olympics.com
- Valeri Kalachikhin's obituary (in Russian)
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- 1939 births
- 2014 deaths
- Soviet men's volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union
- Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Russian men's volleyball players
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Krasnodar Krai
- 20th-century Russian sportsmen
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
- Russian volleyball biography stubs