Aleksandr Goncharov (; 27 March 1959 – 19 June 1990)
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player from the

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, who won the bronze medal with his national team at the boycotted

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,Национальный Олимпийский комитет Республики Казахстан
Олимпийская летопись
behind

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(gold) and

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(silver).

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* 1959 births 1990 deaths Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Olympic field hockey players for the Soviet Union Soviet male field hockey players Field hockey players at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Friendship Games medalists in field hockey Sportspeople from Almaty Kazakhstani male field hockey players {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub