Valeri Stolyarov (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valeri Stolyarov (born January 18, 1971) was a former Russian nordic combined skier who competed during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He won a bronze in the 15 km individual at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. Stolyarov also won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km team event at the 1999 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Ramsau. While Norwegian soldiers are known to have been competing in Nordic skiing since the 19th century, the first major competition in Nordic combined was held in 1892 in Oslo at the first Holmenkollen Ski Festival, an event still held annually. In Norway, popularity of the Holmenkollen, and Nordic combined in general, was great. It is still held in all Winter Olympics. There is currently no women's competition sanctioned by the FIS.