Alexander Tikhonov

Alexander Tikhonov is a former Soviet-Russian biathlete, born Alexander Ivanovich Tikhonov on 2 January 1947 and trained at Dynamo in Novosibirsk. He is a four-time Olympic champion, with all four golds won in relays, and as a member of the winning relay teams in 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980 he never won an individual Olympic gold. He also won nine world championship biathlon golds. After his career he led the Russian Biathlon Union from 1995 to 2008 and served as a vice president of the International Biathlon Union. He was convicted in 2007 of conspiracy to commit murder and amnestied at once, and an IBU review found that he offered a bribe to the federation's secretary general.