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Born | Kharkov, Russian Empire (now Kharkiv, Ukraine) | 12 January 1888
Died | 2 May 1942 | (aged 54)
Sergey Petrovich Pesteryev (Russian: Сергей Петрович Пестерев; 12 January 1888 – 2 May 1942) was a Russian cyclist.[1] He competed in two events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.[2] He was arrested by Soviet authorities and sentenced to five years in a labor camp in April 1940; he died in prison two years later.[3] Pesteryev was posthumously rehabilitated in 1999.[3]