Oleg Logvin

Sport: cycling (road cycling)

Born: 23 May 1959, Minsk region, Belarusian SSR

Honors:

USSR Merited Master of Sports

Order of Badge of Honor

Achievements:

Champion of the XXII Summer Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 (team event)

Silver medalist of the 1981 World Championships (team event)

Bronze medalist of the 1982 World Cup (team event).

Silver medalist of the 1977 Junior World Championships

 Two-time winner of the Peace Race - 1981, 1984

Two-time European champion - 1979-1980

USSR champion 1979-1980

Silver medalist of the 1977 USSR Championships

Bronze medalist of the 1988 USSR Championships

Biography:

Oleg Logvin was born in Borisov, Minsk region on May 23, 1959 and he got on a bicycle in his home town for the first time in 1960.

In 1977, as part of the BSSR national team, he came in second in the Soviet Union Championship, and took the silver of the junior world championship later on. Along with his teammate he won the silver medal at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in 1979.

Then the Belarusian athlete started hoping for a place on the Olympic team. In 1980, after a victory in the Dutch race called Olympic Bicycle Tour, featuring all the strongest cyclists of the world, Oleg Logvin became part of the Soviet national team at the XXII Summer Olympics in Moscow. Under the guidance of well-known cyclist Viktor Kapitonov, the Soviet athletes finished first at the Olympic Games in 1972 and 1976. The Games held in Moscow were no exception. Yuri Kashirin, Oleg Logvin, Sergei Shelpakov and Anatoly Yarkin were ahead of their main rivals from Germany by 1 minute and 21 seconds, and got on the winners’ podium.

Oleg Logvin's next triumph took place in May 1981 at the Peace Races, the route ran through Berlin, Prague, Warsaw, and Moscow. The distance of 2,000km was divided into 12 stages - four stages in each country. The Soviet national team came in second in this race, losing to the German team by the same 1 minute 20 seconds, the same time gap that had made them Olympic champions earlier.

In 1982, Oleg Logvin won a bronze at the cycling races in the UK as part of the USSR team. At the 1984 USSR Championship, by taking the second place in the group race, the Belarusian athlete confirmed his right to participate in the next Olympic Games. However, he did not go to the Olympics. The coach of the national team Viktor Kapitonov thought that it was necessary to assemble a new team for every games.

In 1986, Oleg Logvin retired from his sport career, got admitted to the Higher School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, got certification. Before receiving the rank of captain, he faced a choice: to continue gaining ranks or return to sport. In 1987, the athlete resumed training, and then in 1988 Logvin won the bronze medal at the USSR Championship in Yerevan as part of the Labor Reserves team, surprising experts a lot with this accomplishment. After returning to the high-performance sport Oleg Logvin joined the first Soviet professional team Alfalum, as part of which he performed in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Portugal.

After finishing his sport career he settled down in Minsk and became a coach.