Viktor Potapov
- December 10, 2017
- 70 years
- traffic collision
About Viktor Potapov
Viktor Potapov, 70, Russian sailor, Olympic bronze medalist (1972), traffic collision.
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|Viktor Yakovlevich Potapov (Russian: Виктор Яковлевич Потапов; 29 March 1947 – 10 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian sailor. He won a bronze medal in the Finn class at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
He died in Dolgoprudny as a result of an automobile accident on 10 December 2017.
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