Vladislav Lekomtcev
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Lekomtsev during the state awards ceremony in Sochi on March 17, 2014.
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Vladislav Alekseyevich Lekomtsev (Russian: Владислав Алексеевич Лекомцев; born 8 December 1994) is a Russian para-cross-country skier and para-biathlete. During the 2014 Winter Paralympics he won a gold medal in 7.5 km biathlon race and then won bronze one for the 20 km cross country skiing at the same place.
Vladislav Lekomtsev was born on 8 December 1994 in Romashkino, Alnashsky District, Udmurtia to Tamara Yakovlevna Lekomtseva and Aleksey Lekomtsev. Starting from elementary school, he and his three siblings worked part-time on a collective farm during their summer holidays to earn clothes and school supplies. On 8 August 2007, he lost his left arm and fractured the other one in an accident with a tractor, when he helped his father.
In 2009, Lekomtsev started practicing association football and athletics until his mother helped him to choose skiing.
He is a student of Udmurt State University in Izhevsk, where he is studying psychology.
He is in a serious relationship with his girlfriend, Varvara Reshetnikova. They had been friends at school before starting to date in March 2013. On 22 February 2015, the couple welcomed their first child, a son they named Timofey.
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