Mikhail Ivanov (cross-country skier)

Mikhail Ivanov

Ivanov (right) in 2002

Medal record

Men's cross-country skiing
Olympic Games
	2002 Salt Lake City	50 km
World Championships
	2001 Lahti	30 km

Mikhail Ivanov (born November 20, 1977 in Ostrov, Russia) is a Russian cross-country skier who competed from 1996 to 2007. He finished 2nd in the 50km at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City to Spain's Johann Mühlegg, but was awarded the gold medal in 2004 upon Mühlegg's blood-doping disqualification of darbepoetin.

Ivanov's won the bronze medal in the 30 km event at the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti. He also won two World Cup events in his career (30km: 2000, 15km: 2001).

References

Mikhail Ivanov at the International Ski Federation

Olympic champions in men's 50 km cross-country

1924: Thorleif Haug (NOR)
1928: Per-Erik Hedlund (SWE)
1932: Veli Saarinen (FIN)
1936: Elis Wiklund (SWE)
1948: Nils Karlsson (SWE)
1952: Veikko Hakulinen (FIN)
1956: Sixten Jernberg (SWE)
1960: Kalevi Hämäläinen (FIN)
1964: Sixten Jernberg (SWE)
1968: Ole Ellefsæter (NOR)
1972: Pål Tyldum (NOR)
1976: Ivar Formo (NOR)
1980: Nikolay Zimyatov (URS)
1984: Thomas Wassberg (SWE)
1988: Gunde Svan (SWE)
1992: Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR)
1994: Vladimir Smirnov (KAZ)
1998: Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR)
2002: Mikhail Ivanov (RUS)
2006: Giorgio Di Centa (ITA)
2010: Petter Northug (NOR)
2014: Alexander Legkov (RUS)

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