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Viktor Kuzkin Dies in Accident
by Alanah McGinley on 06/26/08 at 11:03 AM ET
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From the CP via the Globe & Mail,
Viktor Kuzkin, a three-time Olympic champion, has died after a diving accident earlier this week. He was 67.
Kuzkin won gold medals with the Soviet Union teams at three Winter Olympics from 1964 to ‘72, and eight world championships.
The Moscow-born defenceman played 169 times for the USSR, scoring 18 goals, and was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation’s Hall of Fame in 2005.
Kuzkin’s role in the famous 1972 Summit Series—in which he was captain of the Soviet squad—is noted here. And Joe Pelletier has a few more details on Kuzkin’s career.
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