Gleb Tikhonov | |
Birth Date: | 17 December 1992 |
Sport: | Orienteering |
Club: | Turun Metsänkävijät |
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Gleb Tikhonov (born 1992) is a Russian-Finnish[1] male orienteering competitor.
He is a two-time World Orienteering Championships bronze medalist in the mixed relay — in 2014 in Asiago-Lavarone and in 2015 in Inverness — with the Russian team. As a junior, he won a gold medal in the sprint and a bronze medal in the long distance at the 2011 Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships in Lillehammer,[2] and a gold medal in the sprint and in the relay at the 2012 Junior World Championships in Košice.[3] [4] He is the only Russian male to have won individual gold medals at both SkiO And FootO Junior World Orienteering Championships.[5]