Aivars Bogdanovs

Aivars Bogdanovs
Association	Latvia
birthday	February 27, 1965
place of birth	Cēsis,  Soviet Union
Career
job	Firefighter
society	CPSK Olympic
Debut in the World Cup	1992 (?)
status	resigned
End of career	1998
World Cup balance

Aivars Bogdanovs (born February 27, 1965 in Cēsis ) is a former Latvian biathlete .

Aivars Bogdanovs lives in Riga and works as a firefighter. He started for CPSK Olympic and started biathlon in 1980. Bogdanovs belonged to a generation of Latvian biathletes who had little chance of international engagements before the separation from the Soviet Union , but after the separation, with runners such as Ilmārs Bricis , Oļegs Maļuhins and Gundars Upenieks, belonged to the first generation of Latvian biathletes to compete internationally Appearance. With these three he also started at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and 1994 in Lillehammer . In Albertville he reached ranks 40 in the sprint and 62 in the individual, in Lillehammer he was 66th in the sprint. With the three runners mentioned, he was also 16th in the relay races in both games. In between, he took part in the Biathlon World Championships in 1993 in Borovets and was 36th in the sprint, 64th of the individual and ran in the relay race with Maļuhins, Jēkabs Nākums and Upenieks as the final runners in 18th place. After the games in Lillehammer, it was not until 1997 in Osrblie that Bogdanovs could again take part in the biathlon world championships and was 69th of the individual. The last major event was the 1998 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Osrblie. Here the Latvian finished 22nd in the sprint, 28th in the pursuit and sixth with Maļuhins, Upenieks and Bricis. Until 1998 Bogdanovs also took part regularly in races of the Biathlon World Cup. The best result was a 47th place in a sprint in Östersund , which he achieved in the 1992/93 season. After his active career, he began to work in an official capacity for the Latvian Association.

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring					1	4th	5
Starts	12	23			1	4th	40
Status : data may not be complete

Web links

• Aivars Bogdanov in the database of the IBU (English)
• Aivars Bogdanovs in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Statistical data at the-sports.org