Sergey Tarabanko
 Sergey Tarabanko at the 1978 World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Sergey Aleksandrovich Tarabanko | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25 August 1949 (age 66) Moscow, Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Ice speedway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sergey Aleksandrovich Tarabanko (Russian: Сергей Александрович Тарабанько, born 25 August 1949) is a retired Russian ice speedway rider who won seven world titles between 1975 and 1981.[1]
Tarabanko was born in Moscow, but was soon moved to Kirovsk and then Angarsk, where he started training in cross-country motorcycle racing. After working as a turner at a factory, between 1968 and 1972 he served in the army. In 1975 he graduated from the University of Pedagogy in Chita. He then worked as a test driver for a Jawa Motors factory in Novosibirsk, and in 1977 moved to Moscow to coach motorcycle racers. He participated in the 1988 Winter Olympics as a driver of the Soviet Olympic team and later worked as the head of the CSKA racing team in Moscow.[2]
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- ↑ Ice Speedway History In Figures. speedway.org
- ↑ Тарабанько Сергей Александрович. angarsk-goradm.ru