At which event was Vladimir Smirnov killed whilst defending his Olympic gold medal
"of safety gear in fencing. Maraging steel blades (instead of the carbon steel ones of the day), kevlar (or other ballistic nylon) in the uniforms, and masks two to three times stronger than the one he wore, and other safety rules, all came about because of his death. Vladimir Smirnov (fencer) Vladimir Viktorovich Smirnov (, ; 20 May 1954 – 28 July 1982) was a Soviet foil fencer. Smirnov won the gold medal in individual men's foil at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He won the World Championships the following year. During the 1982 World Championships in Rome, Smirnov was fencing"
"rankings since 1980, as competitive performances in men's shot put declined in the 1990s). Sergey Smirnov (athlete) Sergey Valentinovich Smirnov (; born 17 September 1960 – 18 September 2003) was a Russian track and field athlete who competed in the shot put. He was a medallist at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 1987 and at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 1986 and 1987. Smirnov represented the Soviet Union at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics. Among his other honours were a gold medal at the 1986 Goodwill Games, a gold medal at"
"Sergey Smirnov (athlete) Sergey Valentinovich Smirnov (; born 17 September 1960 – 18 September 2003) was a Russian track and field athlete who competed in the shot put. He was a medallist at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 1987 and at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 1986 and 1987. Smirnov represented the Soviet Union at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics. Among his other honours were a gold medal at the 1986 Goodwill Games, a gold medal at the 1985 European Cup (in an unbeaten championship record), and a silver at the"
"lawyers refuse to comment. There are no press releases. Murder of Vladislav Tornovoy The murder of Vladislav Tornovoy happened in Krasnoarmeisky district of Volgograd in the night from 9 May to 10 May 2013 after celebration of Day of Victory. Three young men were torturing the young man and, at last, they killed him by smashing his head with a twenty-kilogram stone. All three members of the event – Alexey Burkov, Anton Smolin and Pavel Semikin – were arrested. According to recognition of one of them, the murder took part based on hatred to homosexuals. Closed trial under arrested started"
"Murder of Vladislav Tornovoy The murder of Vladislav Tornovoy happened in Krasnoarmeisky district of Volgograd in the night from 9 May to 10 May 2013 after celebration of Day of Victory. Three young men were torturing the young man and, at last, they killed him by smashing his head with a twenty-kilogram stone. All three members of the event – Alexey Burkov, Anton Smolin and Pavel Semikin – were arrested. According to recognition of one of them, the murder took part based on hatred to homosexuals. Closed trial under arrested started at December, 2013. The body of 23-year-old Vladislav Tornovoy"
"the Russian Pavel Smirnov. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, he won two gold medals: the individual 25 meter rapid fire pistol competition and the pairs competition in the same event together with Pemba Tamang. The same year, he won a bronze medal in the Asian Games. In 2006, he was awarded the Arjuna award by the Indian government. In 2007, he finished second at the Asian Championship in 25 metre center-fire pistol. He also won a silver medal at the 2009 ISSF World Cup Beijing in rapid fire pistol, where he was defeated by 0.1 points. In the 2010 Commonwealth"
"run 3 by Luke Demetre and Graeme Rinholm. Bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Four-man The four-man bobsleigh competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia was held at the Sliding Center Sanki near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia on 22–23 February 2014. On 24 November 2017, the IOC imposed a life ban on bobsledder Alexandr Zubkov. He was stripped of 2 gold medals (two-man and four-man bobsleigh). On November 27 IOC imposed similar sanctions to members of the same team Dmitry Trunenkov and Alexey Negodaylo. On 29 November 2017, IOC also sanctioned Alexander Kasjanov, Ilvir Huzin and Aleksei Pushkarev"
"the 1994 Winter Olympics, World Championship and Olympic races were included in the World Cup scoring system. Vladimir Smirnov (skier) Vladimir Mikhaylovich Smirnov (; born 7 March 1964) is a Kazakhstani former cross-country skier who raced from the 1982 until 1991 for the USSR and, later, for Kazakhstan. He is the first Olympic champion from independent Kazakhstan. He is also a vice president of the International Biathlon Union. Smirnov is a former member of International Olympic Committee. Smirnov was born in Shchuchinsk, Kazakh SSR. During the Soviet period, he trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Alma-Ata. Smirnov made"
"Vladimir Smirnov (skier) Vladimir Mikhaylovich Smirnov (; born 7 March 1964) is a Kazakhstani former cross-country skier who raced from the 1982 until 1991 for the USSR and, later, for Kazakhstan. He is the first Olympic champion from independent Kazakhstan. He is also a vice president of the International Biathlon Union. Smirnov is a former member of International Olympic Committee. Smirnov was born in Shchuchinsk, Kazakh SSR. During the Soviet period, he trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Alma-Ata. Smirnov made his debut in the FIS Cross-Country World Cup on 18 December 1982 at Davos in a 15"
"Svetlana Smirnova (sport shooter) Svetlana Alekseyevna Smirnova (née Veresova) (; born March 10, 1962 in Pskov) is a Russian sport shooter. She won two medals (silver and bronze), as a member of the Soviet Union shooting team, at the 1987 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Budapest, Hungary, and at the 1990 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Moscow, Russia. She also captured a total of 26 medals (8 gold, 10 silver, 8 bronze), and set a world record of 493 points (1998 in Munich) at the ISSF World Cup. At age thirty-four, Smirnova made her official debut for the 1996 Summer"
"Yezhov and the USSR Prosecutor Vyshinsky, protesting against his detention. On April 20 the same year, he was transferred to Moscow and, on 26 May 1937, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court USSR under the chairmanship of V. Ulrich sentenced him to death for participating in a counterrevolutionary terrorist organization. Smirnov was shot on the same day, becoming a victim of the Great Purge. On 16 November 1960, Smirnov was partially rehabilitated but not was fully rehabilitated until 1990. Vladimir Smirnov (politician) Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov (1887 – 26 May 1937) was a Russian Communist and member of the Bolshevik"
"Assassination of Boris Nemtsov The assassination of Boris Nemtsov, a Russian politician opposed to the government of Vladimir Putin, happened in central Moscow on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge at 23:31 local time on 27 February 2015. An unknown assailant fired seven or eight shots from a Makarov pistol; four of them hit Boris Nemtsov in the head, heart, liver and stomach, killing him almost instantly. He died hours after appealing to the public to support a march against Russia's war in Ukraine. Nemtsov’s Ukrainian partner Anna Duritskaya, survived the attack, as sole eyewitness. The assassination was met with widespread international condemnation"
"Aleshin; many taking over other drivers for just this event. On 21 July 2013, during the World Superbike weekend, Italian rider Andrea Antonelli was killed in the World Supersport race after being hit on the back straight by fellow rider Lorenzo Zanetti. Antonelli was airlifted to hospital where he died of massive head trauma, and the rest of the weekend's action was cancelled due to the torrential downpour that unquestionably contributed to the fatal crash. Moscow Raceway Moscow Raceway is an FIA-approved motor racing venue, which is situated in the Volokolamsky District of Moscow Oblast, near the villages of Sheludkovo"
"Video Igor Smirnov (scientist) Igor Viktorovich Smirnov (Russian: Абакумов Игорь Викторович, Смирнов Игорь Викторович) (April 5, 1951 – November 5, 2004) was a controversial Russian scientist best known for his role in Soviet-era mind control research as well as an obscure field of human behavior study he called ""psychoecology"". He was a son of Soviet Minister of State Security Viktor Abakumov, who was executed for his role in Josef Stalin's political repressions. Smirnov has been characterized in the media as a Rasputin-like character with ""almost mystical powers of persuasion"". According to his wife Rusalkina, the Soviet military enlisted Smirnov's psychotechnology"
"Bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Two-man The two-man bobsleigh competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia was held at the Sliding Center Sanki near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia on 16–17 February. On 24 November 2017, the IOC imposed a life ban on bobsledder Alexandr Zubkov. He was stripped of 2 gold medals (two-man and four-man bobsleigh). On 18 December 2017, Zubkov's two-man bobsleigh teammate Alexey Voyevoda also received a lifetime ban by the IOC due to doping violations at the 2014 Winter Olympics. On 29 November 2017, IOC also sanctioned Alexander Kasjanov for doping offences and stripped"
"Murder of Egor Sviridov The Murder of Egor Sviridov refers to an FC Spartak Moscow fan's death in a clash between two groups of youth, one of which was composed of recent migrants from Russia's North Caucasus republics. The affair took place on December 6, 2010, at Kronstadt boulevard in the north of Moscow. Sviridov's death provoked a number of high-profile rallies and rioting in the capital as well as in Saint Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don and other cities across Russia. Sviridov graduated high school No. 1151 in Moscow in 1999. In 2004, he graduated from Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute. From 2004"
"Igor Smirnov (scientist) Igor Viktorovich Smirnov (Russian: Абакумов Игорь Викторович, Смирнов Игорь Викторович) (April 5, 1951 – November 5, 2004) was a controversial Russian scientist best known for his role in Soviet-era mind control research as well as an obscure field of human behavior study he called ""psychoecology"". He was a son of Soviet Minister of State Security Viktor Abakumov, who was executed for his role in Josef Stalin's political repressions. Smirnov has been characterized in the media as a Rasputin-like character with ""almost mystical powers of persuasion"". According to his wife Rusalkina, the Soviet military enlisted Smirnov's psychotechnology in"
"Bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Four-man The four-man bobsleigh competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia was held at the Sliding Center Sanki near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia on 22–23 February 2014. On 24 November 2017, the IOC imposed a life ban on bobsledder Alexandr Zubkov. He was stripped of 2 gold medals (two-man and four-man bobsleigh). On November 27 IOC imposed similar sanctions to members of the same team Dmitry Trunenkov and Alexey Negodaylo. On 29 November 2017, IOC also sanctioned Alexander Kasjanov, Ilvir Huzin and Aleksei Pushkarev for doping offences and stripped their team of"
"Vitali Smirnov Vitali Georgyevich Smirnov () (born 14 February 1935) is a former Russian member of the International Olympic Committee. 1970—1975 — First Vice-Minister of Sport of the USSR; 1981—1990 — Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation 1975—1981 — Executive President of the Organising Committee of the Games of the XXII Olympiad in Moscow in 1980. 1990—1992 — USSR National Olympic Committee President. 1992—2001 — Russian National Olympic Committee President. 1974—1978, 1986—1990 — Member of the Executive Board of the IOC; 1978—1982, 1990—1994, 2001—2005 — Vice-President of the IOC ; 1992—1998 — Chairman of the Eligibility Commission; 1978—1982, 1991—1995,"
"Vladimir Melanin Vladimir Mikhailovich Melanin (; 1 December 1933 – 10 August 1994) was a Soviet biathlete. He won an Olympic gold medal for the USSR in the 20 km individual in the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck ahead of his fellow Soviet Aleksandr Privalov and the Norwegian Olav Jordet. Melanin also won three individual world titles in the 20 km, in 1959, 1962 and 1963. Melanin started as a cross-country skier, but changed to biathlon while. His strong skiing base helped him win all his titles, as his shooting skills were mediocre. Because of poor shooting, he finished outside of"
"William Plotnikov William Plotnikov (May 3, 1989 in Megion, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – July 14, 2012) was a Russian Canadian boxer and Canadian citizen who converted to Islam, joined the Islamist insurgent organization Caucasus Emirate in the Russian republic of Dagestan and was killed there in combat by Russian government forces. According to unconfirmed media reports, Plotnikov might have been a contact of the Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev via social media and perhaps when Tsarnaev unsuccessfully attempted to join the insurgency in Dagestan as well, before returning to the United States after Plotnikov was killed. Plotnikov immigrated to"
"women's 10 m air pistol, as a 46-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She finished only in ninth place, and thereby missed out of the final by one point behind Finland's Mira Nevansuu, for a total score of 383 targets. Svetlana Smirnova (sport shooter) Svetlana Alekseyevna Smirnova (née Veresova) (; born March 10, 1962 in Pskov) is a Russian sport shooter. She won two medals (silver and bronze), as a member of the Soviet Union shooting team, at the 1987 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Budapest, Hungary, and at the 1990 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Moscow, Russia."
"Ivan Vasilyevich Smirnov Ivan Vasilyevich Smirnov or Iwan Smirnoff (; January 30, 1895 – October 28, 1956) was a Russian World War I flying ace and naturalized Dutch aviator who pioneered the Europe to South East Asia routes. He was born to a poor peasant family, but through courage and good fortune managed to become an officer in the Imperial Russian Air Service. After surviving extremely dangerous infantry combat, he trained as a pilot, and was subsequently credited with 11 aerial victories during World War I. When the October Revolution ended his participation in the war, he deserted and became"
"Vladimir Isakov Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Isakov (); born 28 February 1970 in Pushkino, Moscow Oblast) is a Russian sport shooter. He has been a member of the Russian national shooting team since 1991. He lives in Pushkino and is married to Irina. They have a son, Maxim, and a daughter, Maria. In the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, he finished fourth in the men's 50 metre pistol event, after winning a seemingly unimportant shoot-off for fourth place against Oleg Omelchuk (9.1 versus 6.5). However, after silver medalist Kim Jong-su was disqualified for propranolol use, this shoot-off gained in relevance, giving Isakov"
"Stelnov died on March 24, 2009 after a long illness. Igor Stelnov Igor Anatolievich Stelnov (Russian: Игорь Анатольевич Стельнов """"Igor Styelnov"""") (b. February 12, 1963 in Moscow, Soviet Union - d. March 24, 2009 in Moscow, Russia) was an ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1984. Olympic and World champion. 8-times champion of USSR (1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990). On the international stage, Stelnov won two golds (1984, 1988) in the Olympics, and one"
"World Olympic Qualification Tournament, which was held in Tokyo on 19–27 May 2012. On 29 August 2012, 43-year-old Sergei Ovchinnikov was found dead in his hotel room at his team's training camp in the Croatian town of Poreč. Croatian police, after examining the place of the tragedy, found no evidence of foul play, and concluded that it was a suicide. The reason for the suicide remains unknown, although it was pointed out that Russian media heavily criticized Ovchinnikov for the failure at the Olympic Games in London, where his team was considered as the leading medal contenders but lost in"
"bodyguards. Karlov had begun his speech when Altıntaş fired several shots at the Russian ambassador from the back, fatally wounding him and injuring several other people. After shooting Karlov, Altıntaş circled the room, smashing pictures that were on display and shouting in Arabic and Turkish: """"Allahu Akbar"" (God is the greatest). We are the descendants of those who supported the Prophet Muhammad, for jihad. Do not forget Aleppo, do not forget Syria"" and ""We die in Aleppo, you die here"". Shortly after, Altıntaş was shot and killed by Turkish security forces. Karlov was taken to the hospital, but died from"
"a new Olympic medal. Vladimir Isakov Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Isakov (); born 28 February 1970 in Pushkino, Moscow Oblast) is a Russian sport shooter. He has been a member of the Russian national shooting team since 1991. He lives in Pushkino and is married to Irina. They have a son, Maxim, and a daughter, Maria. In the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, he finished fourth in the men's 50 metre pistol event, after winning a seemingly unimportant shoot-off for fourth place against Oleg Omelchuk (9.1 versus 6.5). However, after silver medalist Kim Jong-su was disqualified for propranolol use, this shoot-off gained"
"Nikolay Khrenkov Nikolay Khrenkov (15 July 1984 – 2 June 2014) was a Russian bobsledder. Khrenkov's best World Cup finish was first in the four-man event at Park City, Utah in December 2010. He also finished second in a four-man World Cup race at Whistler Sliding Centre in February 2012. He was also a member of the four-man crew led by Alexandr Zubkov which won silver medals at the Bobsleigh European Championship in 2011 and 2012. Khrenkov was killed in a car crash near the village of Podgorny on 2 June 2014. He was on his way to see his"
"2012 Moscow shooting The 2012 Moscow shooting was an incident on November 7, 2012, in which six people were killed and one person injured by a lone gunman at a warehouse in northeast Moscow, Russia. Five people were killed in a shooting spree in northeast Moscow in Russia. Hours before the shooting, Dmitry Vinogradov posted his hatred towards mankind on one of Russia's top social networks, ""Vkontakte"". The gunman entered the warehouse on Chermanskaya Street at around 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, November 7, 2012, dressed in camouflage gear and armed with two semiautomatic shotguns, a Saiga 12 variant and a"
"Nikolay Ivanovich Smirnov Nikolay Ivanovich Smirnov (Russian Никола́й Ива́нович Смирно́в) (22 September 1917 – 8 July 1992) was a Soviet Navy Admiral and a Hero of the Soviet Union (1984). Smirnov was born in a peasant family and graduated from an agricultural institute. He joined the Navy in 1937 and completed the M.V. Frunze Higher Naval School in Leningrad in 1939. He joined the Pacific fleet and qualified as a navigator on submarines. In 1943–44 he commanded a Pacific Fleet submarine. In June 1944 he was transferred to the Black Sea Fleet where he commanded a submarine. After the war"
"Grigory Smirnov Grigory Sergeyevich Smirnov (, born 1 April 1997) is a Russian competitive ice dancer. With partner Anastasia Shpilevaya, he is the 2016 Youth Olympic champion and 2017 Russian junior national champion. Grigory Sergeyevich Smirnov was born on 1 April 1997 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. He resides in Moscow. Smirnov began learning to skate in 2002. He competed with Yulia Borisova in the 2010–11 season and with Valeria Neyman in 2011–12. Smirnov teamed up with Anastasia Shpilevaya ahead of the 2012–13 season. Competing on the junior level, they placed fifth at the Ice Challenge and won silver at the"
"Vladimir Gontcharov Vladimir Aleksandrovich Goncharov (also ""Vladimir Gontcharov"", ; born 21 May 1977) is a Russian sport shooter. He collected a total of three bronze medals in pistol shooting at the ISSF World Shooting Championships (2002, 2006, and 2014), and was also selected to represent Russia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, finishing ninth in the air pistol and fourth in the free pistol. Gontcharov is also a member of the shooting team for Dynamo St. Petersburg, under head coach Anatoliy Suslov. Gontcharov qualified for the Russian squad in pistol shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney after"