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Born |
Moscow, Russia |
12 March 1927||||||||||||
Died | 16 June 1984 | (aged 57)||||||||||||
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Sport | Modern pentathlon | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Aleksandr Tarasov (23 March 1927 – 16 June 1984) was a Soviet modern pentathlete and Olympic Champion. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he won a gold medal in the team competition (together with Ivan Deryugin and Igor Novikov, and placed eighth in the individual competition.