Allar Levandi (born 28 December 1965) is an

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nordic combined Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and ski jumping. The Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics has been held since the first 1924 Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics in ...

skier who competed during the late 1980s and early 1990s under two different nations in three straight

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(1988:

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, 1992 and 1994:

). He trained at

Dynamo "Dynamo Electric Machine" (end view, partly section, ) A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos employed electromagnets for self-starting by using residual magnetic field left in the iron cores ...

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

when Estonia was under Soviet rule in the late 1980s. Allar Levandi ja Anna Levandi

Levandi won a bronze in the 15 km individual at the

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. Levandi also won a bronze medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the

1987 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1987 took place 11–21 February 1987 in Oberstdorf, West Germany. Following the domination of the skating technique at the previous championships, the International Ski Federation (FIS) introduced separate c ...

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Personal life

He is married to Anna Kondrashova, a retired competitive figure skater and a current figure skating coach and choreographer.

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* * * * 1965 births Living people Estonian male Nordic combined skiers Soviet male Nordic combined skiers Nordic combined skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Nordic combined skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Nordic combined skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Estonia Olympic Nordic combined skiers for the Soviet Union Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Skiers from Tallinn Olympic medalists in Nordic combined FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics {{Estonia-Olympic-medalist-stub