Alexander Wassiljewitsch Priwalow

Alexander Privalov
Full name	Alexander Wassiljewitsch Priwalow Александр Васильевич Привалов
Association	Soviet Union
birthday	August 6, 1933
place of birth	Pyatnitsa ,  Soviet Union
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 1 × World championship medals 0 × 2 × 0 × Soviet championships 5 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1960 Squaw Valley singles silver 1964 Innsbruck singles World championships silver 1961 Umeå singles silver 1961 Umeå Season USSR championships gold 1960 singles gold 1961 Singles (?) gold 1964 singles gold 1965 singles gold 1966 Season
World Cup balance

Alexander Wassiljewitsch Priwalow ( Russian Александр Васильевич Привалов ; born August 6, 1933 in Pyatnitsa , Solnechnogorsk Raion , Moscow Oblast ) is a former Soviet biathlete .

Privalov got to know the military patrol when he entered the army ; this competition was one of the usual sports competitions there. He had done cross-country skiing as a teenager, was enthusiastic about shooting sports and, at the age of 23, began the still young sport of biathlon. He started for Dynamo Moscow and weighed 85 kg with a height of 1.83 m when he was active. In his first competition he came second after only two shooting errors. He qualified for the Sbornaja and took part in the 1959 Biathlon World Championship in Courmayeur . When Vladimir Melanin won , he was eleventh. Priwalow was more successful the following year. He won the bronze medal at the premiere of biathlon at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley . Thanks to his strength in shooting, he was the best of the Soviet quartet behind Olympic champions Klas Lestander and Antti Tyrväinen and won the first Soviet biathlon medal. In 1961 Privalov won two silver medals at the world championship . He was beaten in the singles by Kalevi Huuskonen and, together with Valentin Pschenizyn and Dmitri Sokolow, was also second in the still unofficial relay competition behind the Finns.

He benefited even more from his shooting strength at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . Although he only achieved the 16th time out of 46 participants, thanks to his faultless shooting performance he won the silver medal behind his teammate Wladimir Melanin, who also remained faultless, and relegated Olav Jordet to third place.

Priwalow was USSR champion in the individual in 1960, 1961 (questionable), 1964 and 1965 and 1966 with the relay. After the end of his career, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture and Sports and became a coach. From 1966 he trained first the Soviet and later the Russian team. At the Olympic Games in 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980 he acted as the responsible coach of the Soviet Union, in 1994 he was responsible for the Russian women's team. Priwalow is married to Jelena Priwalowa and has two children.

Web links

• Alexander Wassiljewitsch Priwalow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Picture gallery with photos from Privalov's life and career (Russian)
• Portrait and interview with Alexander Priwalow (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1960 Winter Olympics - Squaw Valley, United States - Biathlon ( English ) databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on January 1, 2011. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
2. ^ Biathlon at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's 20 kilometers ( English ) Sports Reference LLC. 2010. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
3. ↑ 1964 Winter Olympics - Innsbruck, Austria - Biathlon ( English ) databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on April 7, 2007. Retrieved March 24, 2020.