Alexander Viktorovich Loginov

Alexander Loginov
Full name	Alexander Viktorovich Loginov
Association	Russia
birthday	31st January 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Saratov , Russia
size	177 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
job	college student
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	March 8, 2012
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	17 (16 individual wins)
Debut in the World Cup	February 28, 2013
World Cup victories	4 (2 individual wins)
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 3 × EM medals 4 × 3 × 0 × JWM medals 4 × 0 × 7 × JEM medals 5 × 2 × 0 ×
Biathlon world championships bronze 2017 Hochfilzen Mixed relay silver 2019 Östersund sprint bronze 2019 Östersund Season gold 2020 Antholz sprint bronze 2020 Antholz persecution  European biathlon championships gold 2017 Duszniki-Zdrój singles gold 2017 Duszniki-Zdrój persecution gold 2017 Duszniki-Zdrój Mixed relay silver 2017 Duszniki-Zdrój sprint silver 2018 Ridnaun sprint gold 2018 Ridnaun persecution silver 2018 Ridnaun Mixed relay  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2010 Torsby Season gold 2011 Nové Město na Moravě Season bronze 2011 Nové Město na Moravě sprint bronze 2011 Nové Město na Moravě persecution bronze 2012 Kontiolahti singles bronze 2012 Kontiolahti persecution bronze 2012 Kontiolahti Season gold 2013 Obertilliach sprint gold 2013 Obertilliach singles bronze 2013 Obertilliach persecution bronze 2013 Obertilliach Season  Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2012 Osrblie singles gold 2012 Osrblie persecution silver 2012 Osrblie sprint silver 2012 Osrblie Mixed relay gold 2013 Bansko singles gold 2013 Bansko sprint gold 2013 Bansko persecution
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	02. ( 2018/19 )
Individual World Cup	05. (2018/19)
Sprint World Cup	02. (2018/19)
Pursuit World Cup	03. (2018/19)
Mass start world cup	10. (2018/19)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 0 1 sprint 2 2 2 persecution 0 2 3 Season 2 0 3
Continental Cup balance
Overall IBU Cup	2. ( 2016/17 )
Individual IBU Cup	1. (2016/17)
Sprint IBU Cup	2. (2016/17)
Pursuit IBU Cup	1. ( 2017/18 )
last change: July 19, 2020

Alexander Wiktorowitsch Loginow ( Russian Александр Викторович Логинов ; born January 31, 1992 in Saratov ) is a Russian biathlete . His greatest success is the 2020 world championship title in the sprint.

Career

Junior title and World Cup debut (until 2014)

Loginow was accepted into the Russian national team in 2009 and celebrated international success in the youth field in the following years. In 2010 and 2011 he was two-time youth world champion with the relay; At the Junior World Championships in 2013 in Obertilliach , he won the sprint and 15-kilometer individual races. In the sprint he prevailed 4.9 seconds ahead of Johannes Thingnes Bø, who was a year younger . Loginow won five individual gold medals at the junior races of the European Championships in 2012 and 2013.

At the end of the 2011/12 season , Loginow was nominated for the first time for the IBU Cup on March 8, 2012 in Altenberg . With a fourth place in the individual and two second places in the sprint and in the pursuit, he won numerous points there in his first races. On February 28, 2013 he made his debut in the Sprint in Oslo in the World Cup and immediately finished fifth. In the pursuit race two days later he secured his first podium finish with third place. At the penultimate World Cup of the season, he fought for his first day win with the Russian relay in front of a home crowd in Sochi . In the winter of 2013/14 Loginow was used consistently in the World Cup, where he placed two more times among the top three athletes in an individual competition. He was also part of the Russian Olympic team for the Winter Games in Sochi, where he received an individual assignment.

Doping ban and return to the World Cup (2014 to 2018)

On November 27, 2014, the Russian Biathlon Federation announced the suspension of Loginov for doping . In a sample taken in November 2013, a later test using newer test methods found the prohibited substance EPO . He decided not to open the B sample. He was banned from the IBU for two years. His results from the 2013/14 season were subsequently withdrawn from him.

After his suspension expired in 2016, Loginow immediately returned to the national team. He competed in his first major competitions at the 2017 European Biathlon Championships in Duszniki-Zdrój . There he won the titles in singles, the pursuit and with the mixed relay; in the sprint race he only had to admit defeat to Vladimir Iliev . Shortly afterwards he returned to the highest level of competition in the sport at the World Championships in Hochfilzen and won the bronze medal with the Russian mixed relay, with the team having a conflict with the French Martin Fourcade after the competition .

In the following season Loginow was regularly used in the World Cup again, but he was not allowed to start at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang and therefore took part in the European Championships in Ridanna again in February , where he was able to defend his title in the pursuit and two other silver medals won. Then he started again in the IBU Cup and won several victories there.

World Cup victories and world championship titles (since 2018)

In 2018/19 Loginow was one of the strongest athletes in the World Cup and at the end of the season took second place in the overall standings - well behind Johannes Thingnes Bø, who won 16 of 25 World Cup races. During the winter, Loginow won an individual competition in the World Cup for the first time in his career. On January 11, 2019, he won the Oberhof sprint with an error-free shooting performance and 25.2 seconds ahead of Bø. Two days later he was the first to cross the finish line as the final runner of the Russian relay. At the 2019 World Championships in Östersund, Loginow secured the silver medal in the sprint behind Bø and also the bronze medal in the men's relay. In the final mass start he was fourth and missed another medal by a few seconds.

Loginow became world champion in the sprint on February 15, 2020 : At the World Championships in Antholz, he beat Quentin Fillon Maillet by 6.5 seconds. In the pursuit of the day after he was in the lead until the last shooting, then fell behind Émilien Jacquelin and Johannes Thingnes Bø due to a shooting error and won the bronze medal. Loginow did not take part in the men's mass start race after the Italian police had previously questioned him in connection with doping allegations and had visited him at the hotel the night before. His trainer stated that Loginow was psychologically unable to compete under these circumstances. At the end of winter, he finished seventh in the overall World Cup, making him the best-placed Russian like in the previous winter.

statistics

World Cup victories

Single race	Relay race
No. date place discipline 1. Jan. 11, 2019  Oberhof sprint 2. Feb 15, 2020  Antholz ( WM ) sprint	No. date place discipline 1. March 10, 2013  Sochi Season 1 2. Jan. 13, 2019  Oberhof Season 2 1with Anton Schipulin , Dmitri Malyschko and Evgeni Ustjugow 2with Maxim Zwetkow , Evgeni Garanitschew and Dmitri Malyschko

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		2			2	4th
2nd place		2	2			4th
3rd place	1	2	3		3	9
Top 10	3	13	11	2	17th	46
Scoring	7th	24	20th	13	17th	81
Starts	11	35	26th	16	19th	107
Status: end of season 2019/20

Web links

Commons : Alexander Wiktorowitsch Loginow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alexandr Loginov in the database of the IBU (English)

Single receipts

1. ↑ Alexander Loginov. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Portrait on 24smi.org. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
3. ↑ dpa : Old samples convict biathletes. In: Saxon newspaper. January 12, 2015.
4. ↑ IBU draws Loginov and Co. continue from circulation . ( Memento from July 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) handelsblatt.com
5. ↑ Biathlon World Cup in Hochfilzen: dispute between Martin Fourcade and Russia escalates on eurosport.de, accessed on January 15, 2019.
6. ↑ Anne Armbrecht: Alexander Loginow does not participate in the mass start on spiegel.de. February 23, 2020.