Alexander Vladimirovich Tretyakov (skeleton pilot)

Alexander Tretyakov
Full name	Alexander Vladimirovich Tretyakov
nation	Russia
birthday	April 19, 1985
place of birth	Krasnoyarsk ,  Soviet Union
size	184 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
discipline	skeleton
Trainer	Anatoly Chelyshev
National squad	since 2002
status	blocked
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 4 × 2 × EM medals 1 × 2 × 2 × JWM medals 2 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2010 Vancouver singles gold 2014 Sochi singles  Skeleton World Championships bronze 2009 Lake Placid singles silver 2011 Königssee singles gold 2013 St. Moritz singles silver 2015 Winterberg singles bronze 2015 Winterberg team silver 2016 Igls singles silver 2016 Igls team  European Skeleton Championships gold 2007 Königssee singles bronze 2010 Igls singles bronze 2011 Winterberg singles silver 2013 Igls singles silver 2015 La Plagne singles  Skeleton Junior World Championships gold 2006 Igls singles silver 2007 Altenberg singles gold 2008 Igls singles
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Skeleton ranking 1. ( 08/09 ) Debut in the World Cup November 2004 World Cup victories 11 Overall World Cup 1. ( 08/09 ) Debut North American Cup November 2013 North America Cup victories 3 Debut in the Interconti-Cup January 2013 Interconti victories 7th
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  World cup 11 22nd 14th
last change: January 6, 2019

Alexander Wladimirowitsch Tretyakov ( Russian : Александр Владимирович Третьяков ; born April 19, 1985 in Krasnoyarsk ) is a Russian skeleton pilot .

Career

Alexander Tretyakov made his World Cup debut in November 2004 at a race in Winterberg , where he was 32nd. A year later he came in Calgary in ninth place for the first time in the top 10. In February 2006 he was the first junior world champion ahead of Matthias Biedermann and Alexander Mutowin . At the 2006 Olympic Winter Games of Turin he was ranked 15. His international breakthrough came in the season 2006/07 . After a second place in Calgary and a third place in Park City , he won his first World Cup race in Igls and again shortly afterwards in Winterberg. At the 2007 World Championships in St. Moritz , he finished fifth. He won his first title shortly afterwards at the European Championships at Königssee . In the 2007/08 World Cup Tretyakov was only able to occupy top 10 places in the first two races of the season and was 16th in the overall World Cup. In February 2008 he was again Junior World Champion in front of David Swift and Alexander Gassner ; at the World Seniors Championship , he finished ninth.

The 2008/09 season should be Tretyakov's best in the World Cup. In Winterberg he started the season in second place. In all races of the season he was never worse than ninth. The Russian won the final two races of the season in Park City and won the overall standings of the season ahead of the two Germans Florian Grassl and Frank Rommel, who had dominated the World Cup until then . At the European Skeleton Championships 2009 in St. Moritz, Tretyakov missed a medal in fifth place; at the world championships he won bronze behind Gregor Stähli and Adam Pengilly . In the Skeleton World Cup 2009/10 he finished eighth after two podium places and won bronze at the EM 2010 . At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he won the bronze medal behind Jon Montgomery and Martins Dukurs . In the 2010/11 season Tretyakov won a race, placed five times on the podium and was fifth overall. At the European Championships in Winterberg he won bronze, at the World Championships in Königssee silver.

In the Skeleton World Cup 2011/12 Tretyakov stood five times on the podium and was fourth in the overall World Cup. At the European Championships he was sixth, at the World Championships twelfth. In the following season he placed in all of his eight World Cup participations (out of nine races of the season) between rank 2 and 4 and was again fourth in the final standings. At the European Championships in 2013 he won silver behind Martins Dukurs; at the world championships he won before Dukurs and Sergei Tschudinow . In the winter of 2013/14 he started in the North American Cup and won three races. Although he only took part in four of the eight races of the season, he finished second in the overall standings. In the World Cup , he was able to win a race and stood four more times on the podium, which he finished fourth overall. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he was Olympic champion ahead of Martins Dukurs, who dominated the World Cup, and Matthew Antoine .

In the winter of 2014/15 Tretyakov started in the Intercontinental Cup and won three races before entering the World Cup in January 2015 with a third place and winning it at his second start in Königssee. At the end of January, he again won silver at the European Championship in La Plagne behind Martins Dukurs. He celebrated his second win of the season at the World Cup final in Sochi and was seventh in the overall World Cup. At the world championship he won the silver medal in the individual and bronze with the team. In 2015/16 he first achieved three second places in the World Cup , but then switched to the Intercontinental Cup instead of the races in North America , where he won two races. At the European Championships in St. Moritz, he was fourth and missed a medal; at the world championship in Igls, however, he won silver both individually and with the team.

Doping allegations

In May 2016, the New York Times published a report that there was a state-sponsored doping system in Russia ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympics. The newspaper wrote of at least 15 doped Russian medal winners, citing the head of the anti-doping laboratory in Moscow, Grigory Rodchenkov . He developed a mix of three different doping agents especially for Russian athletes and exchanged urine samples during nightly activities. One of the named athletes was Tretyakov, who denied the allegations as did the Russian government. At the end of 2016, as part of the investigation into the McLaren report, he was suspended in Sochi for alleged doping offenses during the 2014 Olympic Games and his medal was revoked . In 2017 he received a lifelong Olympic ban. In February 2018, the International Sports Court of Justice reversed the withdrawal of his medal due to insufficient evidence and lifted the ban.

Web links

Commons : Alexander Tretiakov  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alexander Tretyakov in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Alexander Tretyakov in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (results 2012/13)
• Alexander Tretyakov in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Results at the-sports.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ruiz, Rebecca R .; Schwirtzmay, Michael: Russian Insider Says State-Run Doping Fueled Olympic Gold at nytimes.com, May 12, 2016 (accessed May 14, 2016).
2. ↑ Alleged system before the Winter Games in Sochi: New references to Russian doping at sportschau.de, May 12, 2016 (accessed on May 14, 2016).
3. ↑ Russia rejects new doping allegations ( memento from May 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at deutschlandfunk.de, May 13, 2016 (accessed on May 14, 2016).
4. ^ Doping in Russia. Olympic skeleton champion Tretyakov suspended. nzz.ch, January 3, 2017, accessed on January 6, 2017 . 
5. ^ Ban for Tretyakov sueddeutsche.de November 22, 2017
6. ↑ The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) delivers its decisions in the matter of 39 Russian athletes v. the IOC: 28 appeals upheld, 11 partially upheld. (PDF (313 kB)) International Sports Court , February 1, 2018, accessed on May 8, 2018 (English). 
7. ↑ CAS lifted Olympic bans from 28 Russians. derStandard.at , February 1, 2018, accessed on May 8, 2018 .