Andrei Viktorovich Gruzdev (russian: Андрей Викторович Груздев; born 21 May 1977 in

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) is a Russian

ski-orienteering Ski orienteering (SkiO) is a cross-country skiing endurance winter racing sport and one of the four orienteering disciplines recognized by the IOF. A successful ski orienteer combines high physical endurance, strength and excellent technical skii ...

competitor Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, ind ...

and world champion.

Ski orienteering

He received a gold medal in ''sprint'' at the 2002

World Ski Orienteering Championships The World Ski Orienteering Championships (Ski-WOC) is the official event to award the titles of World Champions in ski orienteering. The World Championships is organized every odd year. The programme includes Sprint, Middle and Long Distance compe ...

in Borovetz, and a gold medal in the ''middle distance'' in Levi in 2005.World Ski Orienteering Championships
– ''International Orienteering Federation'' (Retrieved on 24 October 2008) In 2007 he won a gold medal in the ''relay event'' (with Kirill Veselov and

Eduard Khrennikov Eduard Alexandrovich Khrennikov (russian: Эдуард Александрович Хренников; born 19 May 1973 in Usolye-Sibirskoye) is a Russian ski-orienteering competitor and world champion, and three t ...

). He has received two individual silver medal and three bronze medals at the world championships. At the

World Cup in Ski Orienteering The World Cup in Ski Orienteering is a series of ski-orienteering competitions organized by the International Orienteering Federation. The first official World Cup was held in 1989, then every second year up to 1999, and then in 2000, 2001, 2003, ...

in 2000 Gruzdev finished overall second, behind winner

.World Cup in Ski Orienteering
– ''International Orienteering Federation'' (Retrieved on 24 October 2008)

References

Living people Russian orienteers Male orienteers Ski-orienteers 1977 births 21st-century Russian people {{Russia-orienteering-bio-stub