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

[Ron Baalke]

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.