Pavel Lednyov

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Pavel Serafimovich Lednyov ({{langx|ru|Павел Серафимович Леднёв}}, {{langx|uk|Павло Серафимович Ледньов}}; 25 March 1943, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia – 23 November 2010, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian-born Ukrainian soviet modern pentathlete and Olympic Champion. He won a total of seven Olympic medals in modern pentathlon, more than any other player to date. He won four individual World Championships, and two gold medals as a member of the Soviet team. Represented SKA Lviv) at the competitions.

Career

Lednyov competed in 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics, and won a total of two gold medals, two silver medals, and three bronze medals.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/le/pavel-lednyov-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417162147/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/le/pavel-lednyov-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|title=Profile: Pavel Lednyov|publisher=sports-reference.com|accessdate=6 March 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/olympics/2008/results/historical/athletes/11519.htm|title=Stats|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=8 March 2009}}

Lednyov became Soviet champion in 1968 and qualified for the Summer Olympics in Mexico City. At his first Olympic games, he won an individual bronze medal, and a silver medal with the Soviet team, which consisted of Lednyov, Boris Onishchenko, and Stasys Šaparnis. In Munich in 1972, he won a silver medal in the individual competition, behind András Balczó, and an Olympic gold medal in the team competition, together with Boris Onishchenko and Vladimir Shmelyov.

In London in 1973, Lednyov became double World Champion, by winning the individual competition with 5,412 points, 145 points ahead of Shmelyov, and the Soviet team won the team competition before West Germany.{{cite web|url=http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1087798/index.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102225143/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1087798/index.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 January 2013|title=A Roundup Of The Week Sept. 3-9|work=Sports Illustrated Vault|date=17 September 1973|accessdate=8 March 2009}} In 1973 he also became a national champion for the second time. He became a double World Champion again in 1974, and in 1975 he became an individual World Champion for the third time.

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he won an individual silver medal, behind gold winner Janusz Pyciak-Peciak. In 1978 he became World Champion again, his fourth in the individual competition. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, he won an individual bronze medal, and also his second Olympic gold medal with the Soviet team, together with Anatoli Starostin and Yevgeny Lipeyev.

Awards

Lednyov was listed among the Soviet Union top ten athletes of the year by the Federation of Sports Journalists of the USSR in 1973 and 1975. {{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}