High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valentin Novikov is a Russian orienteering competitor.He finished second in the 2004 World Orienteering Championships, Middle distance, and third in 2007. He is two times Relay World Champion, from 2006 and 2007 as a member of the Russian winning teams, and obtained a silver medal in 2004.Novikov received two individual gold medals at the 2000 European Championships in Truskavets, and a bronze medal at the 2006 European Championships in Otepää. He received also a gold medal in the relay at the 2008 European Orienteering Championships in Ventspils, togetheR with Andrey Khramov and Dmitriy Tsvetkov.