Alexander Sergeevich Pechonkin

Alexander Pechonkin
Full name	Alexander Sergeevich Pechonkin
Association	Russia
birthday	December 26, 1991
place of birth	Tchaikovsky
Career
Trainer	Maxim Kugayevsky
Admission to the national team	2010
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2010
Debut in the World Cup	February 28, 2013
status	active
Medal table
JWM medals 2 × 3 × 1 × JEM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JSWM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2010 Torsby persecution gold 2010 Torsby Season silver 2010 Torsby singles silver 2010 Torsby sprint silver 2011 Nové Město Season bronze 2012 Kontiolahti Season  Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2011 Ridnaun Season  Junior Summer Biathlon World Championships bronze 2010 Duszniki-Zdrój persecution gold 2012 Ufa sprint silver 2012 Ufa persecution
World Cup balance
last change: June 5, 2012

Alexander Sergejewitsch Pechonkin ( Russian Александр Сергеевич Печёнкин ; born December 26, 1991 in Tchaikovsky ) is a Russian biathlete .

Alexander Petschonkin began biathlon in 2007 and has been a member of the Russian national team since 2010. He starts for Dinamo and is coached by Innokenti Karinzew. He is one of the most successful junior biathletes of his generation. He contested his first international race at the 2009 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Canmore , where he finished 30th in the individual. The 2010 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Torsby were particularly successful for the Russian . He won the bronze medal in the individual behind Martin Maier and in the sprint behind Johannes Kühn . In the pursuit race, he was able to refer Kühn to second place and, like on the side of Alexander Loginow and Ivan Pitschuschkin, won the gold medal in the relay race. Later in the year, Petschonkin started in Duszniki-Zdrój in the junior races of the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2010 and just missed a medal in the sprint in fourth place, which he was able to win in third in the pursuit race. The first highlight of the following year was the 2011 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Nové Město na Moravě , where Pechonkin clearly missed the podium as 24th of the sprint and 26th of the pursuit, but with Nikolai Jakuschow , Ivan Krjukow and Dmitri Djuschew behind Germany the relay Won silver medal. This was followed by the junior races at the 2011 European Biathlon Championships in Ridnaun . There he reached the 24th place in the individual, was seventh in the sprint, and in fourth place just missed a medal that he was able to win with Olga Galitsch , Svetlana Perminowa and Iwan Krjukow as the winner of the mixed relay race. This was followed by the 2012 European Biathlon Championships in Osrblie . In the junior races, Pechonkin achieved single-digit placements with sixth place in the sprint and eight in the pursuit, but missed the medal ranks because he could not qualify for the mixed relay against Alexander Loginow and Maxim Zwetkow . His last junior championship in winter he contested at the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2012 in Kontiolahti . Pechonkin was 24th in the individual, 35th in the sprint, improved to eighth place in the pursuit race and won the relay bronze medal with Alexander Loginow, Ilja Popow and Maxim Zwetkow behind Norway and the Czech Republic. In the summer he won the sprint race at the junior races of the 2012 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Ufa and was second in the pursuit behind Pyotr Pashchenko .

Towards the end of the 2009/2010 season Pechonkin made his debut in the men's performance area and was 17th in a sprint race in the IBU Cup in Pokljuka . Towards the end of the 2011/2012 season he achieved a single-digit placement for the first time in sixth place in a sprint in Altenberg . In the mixed relay, which was held in the IBU Cup for the second time, he won his first IBU Cup race in 2012 in Ridnaun alongside Anastassija Sagoruiko , Marina Korowina and Timofei Lapschin . The first international men's championships were the 2013 European championships in Bansko , where Pechonkin was 16th in the sprint and 26th in the pursuit. A little later he contested his first race in the Biathlon World Cup at Holmenkollen in Oslo . As the 53rd of the sprint, he qualified in his first race for the pursuit, which he finished in 22nd and thus won World Cup points for the first time.

At the beginning of November 2018 it became known that the International Biathlon Union had opened doping proceedings against Pechonkin and Svetlana Slepzowa , Yevgeny Ustjugow and Alexander Tschernyschow based on suspicious samples from 2012 to 2015.

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
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring		3	2			5
Starts		6th	3			9
As of February 8, 2015

Web links

• Alexander Sergejewitsch Pechonkin in the IBU database (English)
• Profile on biathlonrus.com ( Russian )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International Biathlon Union Charges Four Russian Athletes