[meteorite-list] Russian Gold Medalist Receives Chelyabinsk Meteorite Medal

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:16:22 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201403212216.s2LMGMC3018010_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/2014/03/21/viktor-ahn-meteorite-medal-short-track-speed-skating-sochi-olympics-russia/

Viktor Ahn receives his meteorite medal
Nick Zaccardi
Associated Press
March 21, 2014

Russian short track speed skater Viktor Ahn was awarded an extra medal
Friday, one embedded with fragments of the meteorite that struck the Russian
city of Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15, 2013.

Last year, it was announced that chunks of the meteorite that hit the
Ural Mountains region would be "chipped off and inserted into" extra medals
offered to Olympians who won events on the one-year anniversary of the
collision that injured more than 1,000 people.

No Americans won gold medals on Feb. 15 in Sochi, but Ahn prevailed in
one of seven medal events that day.

Ahn was the most decorated male athlete in Sochi, winning four medals,
including three gold, after receiving Russian citizenship in 2012. He
also won four medals, including three gold, for South Korea in 2006, skating
as Ahn Hyun-Soo.

Ahn, 28, won his sixth overall World Championship in Montreal on Sunday.
He has not committed to competing through the 2018 Olympics, which will
be in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Received on Fri 21 Mar 2014 06:16:22 PM PDT