Alexander Vladimirovich Kasyanov
Alexander Kasyanov  
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| Full name | Alexander Vladimirovich Kasyanov | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| birthday | September 30, 1983 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Bratsk , Irkutsk Oblast , Soviet Union
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| size | 189 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 108 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Bobsleigh luge |
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| National squad | since 2006 (Bob) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexander Wladimirowitsch Kasjanow ( Russian Александр Владимирович Касьянов , English transcription Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kasyanov , wrongly at the IBSF Alexander Kasjanov ; born September 30, 1983 in Bratsk ) is a Russian bobsleigh pilot and former luge racer .
Career
Alexander Kasyanow was initially active as a luge (single-seater) and started in the 2003/04 season for the first time in the World Cup, where he achieved two 17th places as the best positions of the season and 21st in the overall World Cup. In the following winters he could not improve his results and in 2006 he switched to bobsleigh.
In the following years Kasjanow mainly took part in the European Bobsleigh Cup. His best result at the Junior World Championships was the bronze medal in two in 2008 in Igls together with Sergei Prudnikow . In January 2009 he made his debut in the World Cup in Königssee . After consistently good results in the 2009/10 European Bobsleigh Cup , he started the following season for the first time exclusively in the World Cup , where he achieved 9th place in the two-man and fifth place in the four-man overall. At the European Championship he just missed a medal in fourth in the four-man bobsleigh. In the 2011/12 season Kasyanow achieved his first podium finishes in the World Cup: a third place in the team competition in Igls and a second place in the four in Whistler . He was fourth in the four-man standings.
In the following two winters, Kasjanow also took a few podiums in the four-man bobsleigh World Cup and was eighth in the overall classification in both 2012/13 and 2013/14 . He also took part in the Olympic Games in Sochi , where he finished fourth in the two-man and four-man bobsleigh and in both cases missed the bronze medal by just 0.03 seconds. These successes were subsequently withdrawn from him by the IOC because of doping.
The 2014/15 season was his most successful so far in the World Cup with three second places in a foursome and also second place in the overall standings. He won silver at the European Championships in La Plagne and ended the season with a bronze medal in the team competition of the 2015 Bobsleigh World Championships in Winterberg . In the 2015/16 Bobsleigh World Cup , he finished second in the four-man bobsleigh on the podium at the fourth season stop in Lake Placid and celebrated his first World Cup victory a week later in Park City . In Whistler he also achieved his first two World Cup podiums in the small sled in third place, in the first race he was only a hundredth of a second behind the simultaneously victorious pilots Rico Peter and Won Yun-jong and just ahead of fourth-placed Uģis Žaļims .
Because of doping at the Olympic Games in Sochi , he was banned from the Olympic Games for life on November 29, 2017. The Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Federation banned him for two years.
Alexander Kasjanow lives in Bratsk and is married to the luge athlete Wiktorija Kneib , whose older brother Wiktor Kneib was also active as a luge athlete.
Web links
- Alexander Wladimirowitsch Kasjanow in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
- Alexander Wladimirowitsch Kasjanow in the database of the International Luge Federation
- Alexander Kasjanow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Results at the-sports.org (English)
- Profile of the Olympic Games 2014 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://stillmed.olympic.org/media/Document%20Library/OlympicOrg/IOC/Who-We-Are/Commissions/Disciplinary-Commission/2017/SML-030-Disciplinary-Commission-Decision-Operative-Part-Alexander -KASYANOV.pdf # _ga = 2.79829271.1299995597.1533024890-1603090510.1533024890
- ↑ Doping: IBSF imposes a two-year ban on Subkow's quartet
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| SURNAME | Kasyanow, Alexander Vladimirovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kasyanow, Alexander; Касьянов, Александр (Russian); Касьянов, Александр Владимирович (full name, Russian); Kasyanov, Aleksandr (English transcription); Kasyanov, Aleksandr Vladimirovich (full name, English transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian bobsleigh and luge athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bratsk , Irkutsk Oblast , Soviet Union |