Vasily Rochev (skier, born 1980), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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cross-country skier
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Place of Birth: Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russia
About Vasily Rochev (skier, born 1980)
- Vasily Vasilyevich Rochev (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ?????; born 23 October 1980 in Syktyvkar, Komi ASSR, Russian SFSR) is a Russian cross-country skier who has competed since 2000.
- He won the bronze medal in the Team sprint event at the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin. Rochev has four medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold (Individual sprint: 2005), two silvers (Team sprint and 4x10 km: both 2007), and one bronze (4x10 km: 2005).
- He has won fourteen events in cross-country skiing since 2002. He is the son of Vasily Rochev who won two medals at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York (gold: 4 x 10 km, silver: 30 km), and two medals at the 1974 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun (silver: 4 x 10 km, bronze: 15 km). He is the second husband of fellow Russian cross-country skier Yuliya Chepalova, who gave birth to her second child Vaselina in April 2007.
- Chepalova had another child in 2003 from a previous marriage.
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