Valery Muratov
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| Olympic medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's Speed skating | |||
| Bronze | Sapporo 1972 | 500 metres | |
| Silver | Innsbruck 1976 | 500 metres | |
| Bronze | Innsbruck 1976 | 1000 metres | |
Valery Alekseyevich Muratov (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Муратов) (born May 1, 1946 in Moscow) is a former ice speed skater from the USSR, who represented his native country in two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan. He trained in Kolomna at Burevestnik and later at the Armed Forces sports society.
Muratov won the first unofficial World Sprint Championships in 1970, and was runner-up in the first official World Sprint Championships in 1972. The next year he won the World Sprint Title. He never captured any Olympic title, but he got a bronze medal in 1972 and both silver and bronze in the 1976 Winter Olympics. He was five times national sprint champion. In 1970 he set a new 500 m world record three times, but he never got to keep for more than a few weeks.
He started a successfull career as coach for the Soviet Union (and later Russian) speed skating team, guiding World Sprint Champions Sergey Khlebnikov and Igor Zhelezovsky.
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