Alexander Ivanovich Tikhonov

Alexander Tikhonov
Alexander Tikhonov, 2015
Association	Soviet Union
birthday	January 2, 1947
place of birth	Uiskoje , Soviet Union
Career
Admission to the national team	1967
status	resigned
End of career	1980
Medal table
Olympic medals 4 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 11 × 4 × 2 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 1968 Grenoble Season silver 1968 Grenoble singles gold 1972 Sapporo Season gold 1976 Innsbruck Season gold 1980 Lake Placid Season  Biathlon world championships silver 1967 Altenberg Season gold 1969 Zakopane singles gold 1969 Zakopane Season gold 1970 Ostersund singles gold 1970 Ostersund Season gold 1971 Hämeenlinna Season silver 1971 Hämeenlinna singles gold 1973 Lake Placid singles gold 1973 Lake Placid Season gold 1974 Minsk Season silver 1975 Antholz Season gold 1976 Antholz sprint gold 1977 Vingrom sprint gold 1977 Vingrom Season bronze 1977 Vingrom singles silver 1979 Ruhpolding singles bronze 1979 Ruhpolding Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 1968 Luleå Season bronze 1968 Luleå singles
World Cup balance

Alexander Iwanowitsch Tichonow ( Russian Александр Иванович Тихонов ; English Alexander Tikhonov ; born January 2, 1947 in Uiskoje , Chelyabinsk Oblast ) is a former Soviet biathlete , Russian sports official and former Vice-President of the International Biathlon Union .

Biathlon career

Alexander Tikhonov is one of the most successful biathletes in history. From 1968 to 1980 he was part of the victorious Soviet squadron four times in a row. With four Olympic gold medals, Tichonow is the second most successful biathlete at the Olympic Winter Games after Ole Einar Bjørndalen, together with the Germans Ricco Groß and Sven Fischer . However, Tikhonov never achieved an individual Olympic gold medal, in 1968 he won his only individual medal with the silver medal in the individual race.

Alexander Tikhonov was also extremely successful at world championships. With a total of eleven gold medals, six of them with Soviet relays, he is one of the most successful athletes at world championships, measured by the number of total gold medals, together with the German Frank Luck . Tikhonov won his first medal in 1967 with the silver medal in the relay race. From 1969 to 1977, with the exception of 1975, he was able to win at least one gold medal at every world championship. From 1969 to 1974 he was victorious with the Soviet squadron five times in a row. In his most successful world championship, Tikhonov achieved two gold medals in the sprint and with the Soviet relay and a bronze medal in the individual in 1977.

Activities as a functionary

Tikhonov was president of the Russian Biathlon Federation until 2008. In this role he was very controversial, not least because of various unclear, controversial and autocratic decisions, such as the dismissal of the women's national coach Valeri Polchowski , who had to be reinstated after a decision by the Russian Sports Association.

Between 2000 and 2002, Tikhonov was investigated in Russia because he was suspected of being behind an attempted murder on the governor of Kemerovo Oblast Aman Tuleev, along with his brother Viktor Tichonov and the entrepreneur Mikhail Schiwilo . In 2007 he was found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison. Due to an amnesty, however, Tikhonov was immediately released. The International Biathlon Union (IBU) had it checked whether it could remove its first vice-president from his post based on the judgment in Novosibirsk.

successes

• Winter Olympics:
  • 1968: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × silver (individual)
  • 1972: 1 × gold (relay)
  • 1976: 1 × gold (relay)
  • 1980: 1 × gold (relay)

• World Championships:
  • 1967: 1 × silver (relay)
  • 1969: 2 × gold (single, relay)
  • 1970: 2 × gold (single, relay)
  • 1971: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × silver (individual)
  • 1973: 2 × gold (single, relay)
  • 1974: 1 × gold (relay)
  • 1975: 1 × silver (relay)
  • 1976: 1 × gold (sprint)
  • 1977: 2 × gold (sprint, relay), 1 × bronze (individual)
  • 1979: 1 × silver (individual), 1 × bronze (relay)

Web links

• Alexander Iwanowitsch Tichonow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polhovsky back in office - criticism of Tichonov. (No longer available online.) Biathlon-online.de, July 1, 2007, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 11, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.