Ago Markvardt

	Ago Markvardt
Full name	Russian Аго Эльмарович Марквард
nation	Soviet Union; from 1991 Estonia
birthday	11th August 1969 (age 51)
place of birth	Elva , Estonian SSR
size	182 cm
Weight	74 kg
Career
society	Nõmme ski club
Trainer	Tõnu Haljandi, Tiit Talvari ; Silver Eljandi, Tiit Tamme
status	resigned
End of career	1998
Medal table
Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
	Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	1990
	last change: January 18, 2020 (end of career)

Ago Markvardt , formerly Ago Elmarowitsch Markward ( Russian Аго Эльмарович Марквард , born August 11, 1969 in Elva , then Estonian SSR ) is a former Soviet , then Estonian Nordic combiner .

Markvardt started winter sports at the age of nine. He won the bronze medal with the Soviet team at the Junior World Championships in 1988 in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer, Austria and in 1989 in Vang, Norway . In 1989 he also won the bronze medal in the individual competition.

At the Olympic Winter Games in 1994 he was second after ski jumping, but could not hold this position in the subsequent cross-country skiing and had to be content with fifth place. Together with Allar Levandi and Magnar Freimuth , he just missed an Olympic medal in the team competition. The Estonian team finished fourth. In 1997 Markvardt again just missed a medal at a major international event. At the Nordic World Ski Championships he also took fourth place in the individual competition.

Markvardt's best result in a World Cup competition was eighth in 1994 in Trondheim , which he was able to fight for again in Lahti in 1996 . Markvardt achieved his best results in 1996 in Germany in the B World Cup . He won the competitions in Schonach and Oberhof . In Hinterzarten he took second place and in Garmisch-Partenkirchen he came third. In 1988 as well as 1995 and 1996 he was Estonian Champion in Nordic Combined , he also won the national titles in ski jumping in 1994 and 1996. In 1998 he ended his career.

Markvardt was athlete of the year in Estonia in 1994 both as an individual athlete and with the team . Since 2001 Ago Markvardt worked as a jumping judge for the FIS . He can also be seen as an expert on Estonian television . Since 2014 he has been on the board of the Estonian Ski Association and chairman of the ski jumping and biathlon committee. His daughter Margaret Markvardt is a multiple Estonian swimming champion .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d MARKVARDT, AGO. Spordikoolituse ja –Teabe SA, accessed on January 18, 2020 .
^ Olympic Games 1994 Lillehammer (NOR). Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
↑ MARKVARDT, MARGARET. Spordikoolituse ja –Teabe SA, accessed on January 18, 2020 .

Web links

Ago Markvardt in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Ago Markvardt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Profile of Ago Markvardt at the Estonian Ski Association
Ago Markvardt at ESBL (Eesti Spordi Biograafiline Leksikon, Estonian)
Biography of Ago Markvardt on peoplelife.ru (Russian)

personal data
SURNAME	Markvardt, Ago
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	AMarkward, Ago Elmarowitsch (name in the Soviet Union); Марквард, Аго Эльмарович (Russian name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Estonian Nordic combined
DATE OF BIRTH	11th August 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elva , Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union

[esbl-1] MARKVARDT, AGO. Spordikoolituse ja –Teabe SA, accessed on January 18, 2020 .

[2] Olympic Games 1994 Lillehammer (NOR). Retrieved January 18, 2020 .

[esbl-2-3] MARKVARDT, MARGARET. Spordikoolituse ja –Teabe SA, accessed on January 18, 2020 .