Albert Michailowitsch Demchenko

Albert Demchenko
Full name	Albert Michailowitsch Demchenko
nation	Russia
birthday	November 27, 1971
place of birth	Chusovoy , Perm Oblast ,  Soviet Union
size	185 cm
Weight	103 kg
Career
discipline	Single seater
National squad	since 1992
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 3 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 0 × EM medals 4 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 2006 Turin Single seater silver 2014 Sochi Single seater silver 2014 Sochi team  Luge World Championships silver 2012 Altenberg Single seater silver 2012 Altenberg team  European Luge Championships silver 1996 Sigulda Single seater gold 2006 Winterberg Single seater silver 2008 Cesana Single seater gold 2010 Sigulda Single seater gold 2012 Paramonowo team bronze 2013 Oberhof team gold 2014 Sigulda team
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 1992  World Cup victories 15th  Overall World Cup ES 1. ( 2004/2005 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single seater 15th 12 12  Team relay 2 3 5
last change: end of season 2015/16

Albert Demchenko ( Russian Альберт Михайлович Демченко * 27. November 1971 in chusovoy , Oblast Perm ) is a former Russian luger , coaches and physical education teachers.

Career

His first participation in the Winter Games was at the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville . Together with Alexei Selensky , he took eighth place in the two-seater. At the Olympic Games in 1994 he was ninth and seventh in the doubles. At the competition of the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano , he completed only three rounds and was disqualified in the fourth run. He finished tenth in the doubles. At the Salt Lake City Games in 2002 , he finished fifth. At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver he missed the bronze medal by just 0.03 seconds and reached fourth place. At the Luge World Championships in 2012 in Altenberg , he was runner-up in the single-seater and team.

Albert Demtschenko celebrated his greatest successes at the Olympic Games in 2006 and 2014 when he won the silver medal behind Armin Zöggeler and Felix Loch . He won another silver medal in the team competition. At the age of 42, Demtschenko was the oldest participant in the Winter Games who could win a medal in an individual competition, only curlers were older.

In December 2017 Demchenko were both Olympic medals from 2014 to publications on controlled State Doping in Russia ( McLaren-Report ) by the IOC stripped . In addition, he and other Russian athletes - including his luge colleague Tatiana Iwanowa - received a lifelong ban from the Olympic Games. That is why he was not allowed to travel to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang as the new coach of the Russian tobogganers . In February 2018, the International Court of Sport revoked the withdrawal of his medals due to insufficient evidence and lifted the ban.

His daughter Wiktorija is also active in luge sport.

successes

Overall World Cup

season	space	Points
2000/01	09.	0353
2001/02	011.	0250
2002/03	04th	0404
2003/04	09.	0345
2004/05	01.	0629
2005/06	04th	0497
2006/07	04th	0444
2007/08	03.	0454
2008/09	07th	0409
2009/10	02.	0534
2010/11	03.	0514
2011/12	08th.	0337
2012/13	05.	0516
2013/14	014th	0253

World Cup victories

Single seater

Team relay

No. date place train 1. 0Dec 9, 2002  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 2. Nov 21, 2004  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 3. 0Jan. 2, 2005  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 4th 0Jan. 6, 2005  Koenigssee Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee 5. Jan. 23, 2005  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 6th 0Nov 6, 2005  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 7th Dec 10, 2005  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 8th. 0Jan. 7, 2007  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 9. 0Jan. 6, 2008  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 10. Feb 17, 2008  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 11. 0Dec 7, 2008  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 12. Dec 13, 2009  Lillehammer Hunderfossen bobsleigh and sled run 13. 0Jan. 3, 2010  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 14th Feb 13, 2011  Paramonowo Paramonowo luge and bobsleigh track 15th Dec 17, 2012  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track

No. date place train 1. Feb. 20, 2011  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 2. Jan. 14, 2014  Altenberg DKB ice channel

Web links

Commons : Albert Michailowitsch Demtschenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Albert Michailowitsch Demtschenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Albert Michailowitsch Demtschenko in the database of infosport.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports pier. In: sportsmole.co.uk
2. ↑ Russian doping: IOC bans 11 Winter Olympic athletes. In: bbc.co.uk. Retrieved December 22, 2017 (English). 
3. ↑ IOC bans more Russians - Late medal for Langenhan. In: sportschau.de. December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 23, 2017 . 
4. ↑ The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) delivers its decisions in the matter of 39 Russian athletes v. the IOC: 28 appeals upheld, 11 partially upheld. (PDF (313 kB)) International Sports Court , February 1, 2018, accessed on May 8, 2018 (English). 
5. ↑ CAS lifted Olympic bans from 28 Russians. derStandard.at , February 1, 2018, accessed on May 8, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Russia's titled luger Demchenko brushes age aside, set to continue competing. In: Tass.com. March 31, 2014, accessed December 4, 2016 .