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n cross-country skier who has competed since 2000. He won the bronze medal in the Team sprint event at the 2006 Winter Olympics

2006 Winter Olympics

The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter...

 at Turin

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Rochev has four medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

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 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 Pavlovich Rochev who won two medals at the 1980 Winter Olympics

1980 Winter Olympics

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 in Lake Placid, New York

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 (gold: 4 x 10 km, silver: 30 km) and two medals at the 1974 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

1974 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1974 took place February 16-24, 1974 in Falun, Sweden. This was the second time this city hosted the event having done so in 1954...

 in Falun

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 (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.