Ardalion Vasilyevich Ignatyev was a Soviet

Soviet Union

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 athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He was born in the village of Novoye Toyderyakovo, Yalchiksky District

Yalchiksky District

Yalchiksky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the twenty-one in the Chuvash Republic, Russia. It is located in the southeastern portion of the republic and borders with the Republic of Tatarstan in the north, south, and east, Komsomolsky District in the west, and...

, Chuvash ASSR

Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

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He was European champion over 400 metres in 1954, when he also won a silver medal over 200 metres. He competed for the USSR

Soviet Union

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 in the 1956 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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 held in Melbourne

Melbourne

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, Australia

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 in the 400 metres where he won the bronze medal jointly with Finland's Voitto Hellstén

Voitto Hellstén

Voitto Valdemar Hellsten was a Finnish athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres.He competed for Finland in three Summer Olympics, in 1952, 1956 and 1960...

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