Sergey Tarabanko

Sergey Tarabanko

Sergey Tarabanko at the 1978 World Championships
Personal information
Full name Sergey Aleksandrovich Tarabanko
Born 25 August 1949 (1949-08-25) (age 67)
Moscow, Russia
Sport
Sport Ice speedway

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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