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Ardalion Vasilyevich Ignatyev
(
Russian
:
Ардалион Васи?льевич Игна?тьев
; November 24, 1930 ? October 24, 1998)
[1]
[2]
was a
Soviet
athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He was born in the village of Novoye Toyderyakovo,
Yalchiksky District
,
Chuvash ASSR
.
He was European champion over 400 metres in 1954, when he also won a silver medal over 200 metres. He competed for the
USSR
in the
1956 Summer Olympics
held in
Melbourne
,
Australia
in the 400 metres where he won the bronze medal jointly with Finland's
Voitto Hellsten
. After his career was finished, Ignatyev worked at sports school in Cheboksary as a director, and was also a lecturer at Yakovlev Chuvash State Pedagogical University from 1970 to 1976.
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