Pavel Serafimovich Lednyov (Russian: Павел Серафимович Леднёв, Ukrainian: Павло Серафимович Ледньов; 25 March 1943, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia – 23 November 2010, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian-born Ukrainian soviet modern pentathlete and Olympic Champion.

[2] He won four individual World Championships, and two gold medals as a member of the Soviet team.

In London in 1973, Lednyov became double World Champion, by winning the individual competition with 5,412 points, 145 points ahead of Shmelyov, and the Soviet team won the team competition before West Germany.

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he won an individual silver medal, behind gold winner Janusz Pyciak-Peciak.

[2] Lednyov was listed among the Soviet Union top ten athletes of the year by the Federation of Sports Journalists of the USSR in 1973 and 1975.