Aljaksandr Papou

Alexander Popov
Full name	Alexander Vladimirovich Popov Александр Владимирович Попов
Association	Soviet Union CIS and United Team Belarus
birthday	February 22, 1965
place of birth	Tobolsk,  Soviet Union
Career
job	Biathlon coach
society	Dinamo
Trainer	Vladimir Kapschukov
status	resigned
End of career	1998
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × Biathlon world championships 4 × 4 × 2 × Soviet championships 4 × ? × ? ×
winter Olympics gold 1988 Calgary 4 × 7.5 km relay silver 1992 Albertville 4 × 7.5 km relay  Biathlon world championships silver 1987 Lake Placid 4 × 7.5 km relay gold 1989 Feistritz team silver 1989 Feistritz 4 × 7.5 km relay silver 1991 Lahti singles silver 1991 Lahti Season gold 1992 Novosibirsk team bronze 1995 Antholz Season gold 1996 Ruhpolding team bronze 1996 Ruhpolding Season gold 1997 Osrblie team Soviet Championships (Biathlon) gold 1985 sprint gold 1986 Season gold 1987 Military patrol 25 km gold 1988 Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	2. 1988/1989

Alexander Vladimirovich Popov ( Russian Александр Владимирович Попов ; Belarusian Аляксандр Папоў - Alyaksandr Papou * 22. February 1965 in Tobolsk , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian - Soviet biathlete , who in the second half of the 1990s for Belarus started.

His greatest successes came with the relay and in team competitions: at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , he won the gold medal with the Soviet relay. Four years later in Albertville he won silver again with the relay of the United Team. At world championships he won the team championship in 1989 with the USSR and 1997 with Belarus , the silver medals in the relay competition with the USSR in 1987 , 1989 and 1991 , and bronze in 1995 and 1996 with the Belarus relay. His only individual medal was a second place in 1991 in an individual competition.

In 1998 Popov ended his career, from 1999 he temporarily headed the Belarusian national biathlon team. He received the highest Soviet sports award as Honored Master of Sports . Popov is a graduate of the Tobolsk State Socio-Pedagogical Academy ( Тобольская государственная социально-педагогическая академия ).

Web links

• Alexander Wladimirowitsch Popow in the IBU database (English) (only partially includes early successes as a member of the Soviet team.)
• Alexander Wladimirowitsch Popow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at biastat.com (Russian / English / German)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The IBU states Belarus as the country of birth, but Tobolsk as the location ( Alexandr POPOV ( Memento from April 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )).