Alexander Alexandrovich Kruschelnitski

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Alexander Kruschelnitski Curling
birthday 20th May 1992 (age 28)
place of birth Saint Petersburg , Russia
Career
nation RussiaRussia Russia
society CC adamant
Playing position Skip
Playing hand right
status blocked
Medal table
MWM medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
MDWM medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Template: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
World mixed curling championshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
gold 2016 Kazan
Curling Mixed Doubles World ChampionshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
gold 2016 Karlstad
last change: December 4th, 2018

Alexander Alexandrowitsch Kruschelnitski ( Russian Александр Александрович Крушельницкий , English Alexander Krushelnitskiy ; born May 20, 1992 in Saint Petersburg ) is a Russian curler . He mainly plays in mixed doubles.

Career

Kruschelnizki started his international career at the Mixed Doubles World Championship in 2015 . Together with Viktoria Moiseyeva he came in sixth place. At the Mixed Doubles World Championship in 2016 he played with Anastassija Brysgalowa and won the gold medal by beating the Chinese team with Ba Dexin  and  Wang Rui in the final  . The title defense at the  Mixed Doubles World Championship 2017  did not succeed; the two were only ninth.

At the  Mixed World Championship in 2016  he played as the skip of the Russian team that won the gold medal. Together with Anastassija Brysgalowa he played in the first mixed doubles competition at the  2018 Olympic Winter Games for the Olympic Athletes from Russia team . The two finished third after the Round Robin . In the semifinals they lost to Switzerland ( Jenny Perret and Martin Rios ), but were able to beat the Norwegian team ( Magnus Nedregotten and Kristin Skaslien ) 8: 4 in the game for third place and win the bronze medal.

On February 18, 2018, the prohibited substance meldonium was found in his A sample . The B sample confirmed the findings one day later. The Anti-Doping Division of the International Sports Court (CAS) opened a case against Kruschelnizki. On February 22, 2018, she found him guilty and expelled him from the 2018 Winter Games. The 25-year-old returned his Olympic bronze medal (see list of revoked Olympic medals ). At the beginning of December 2018, the anti-doping division of the international sports court imposed a doping ban of four years, starting on February 12, 2018.

Private life

Kruschelnizki has been married to his play partner Anastassija Brysgalowa since 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New doping suspicion against athletes from Russia. In: faz.net. Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ B-sample of the Russian Olympic curler Kruschelnizki positive. In: rp-online.de. February 20, 2018, accessed February 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ CAS opens proceedings against Russian curlers. In: sportschau.de. February 19, 2018, accessed February 19, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Sports court found Curler Kruschelnizki guilty. In: sportschau.de. February 22, 2018, accessed February 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Matthias Friebe: Norwegian curlers should later get bronze. In: deutschlandfunk.de. February 22, 2018, accessed February 22, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Press release - The CAS ADD Imposes a Four Year Period of Ineligibility on Curler Aleksandr Krushelnickii. In: tas-cas.org. December 4, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kruschelnitski, Alexander Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Крушельницкий, Александр Александрович (Russian); Krushelnitskiy, Alexander (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian curler
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Petersburg , Russia