Two-time biathlon world champion Yuri Kolmakov dies at 76

MOSCOW, July 24 Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, two-time world champion Yuri Kolmakov died at the age of 77, according to the official website of the Russian Biathlon Union. Kolmakov won gold medals in the relay at the world championships in Lake Placid (1973) and Minsk (1974). «The career of a prominent representative of the Soviet biathlon is connected with Minsk, where Kolmakov lived and trained. The Russian Biathlon Union expresses its condolences to the family and friends of Yuri Pavlovich, as well as the Belarusian Biathlon Federation,» the message says.