Alexandra Yuryevna Prokopyeva

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Alexandra Prokopyeva Alpine skiing
Alexandra Prokopjewa in Garmisch (2017)
nation RussiaRussia Russia
birthday 24th July 1994 (age 26)
place of birth MontchegorskRussia
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G , giant slalom ,
combination , slalom
status active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut February 18, 2012
 Overall World Cup 112th ( 2019/20 )
 Downhill World Cup 43rd (2019/20)
 Combination World Cup 53rd ( 2016/17 )
last change: March 13, 2020

Alexandra Jurjewna Prokopyeva ( Russian Александра Ю́рьевна Прокопьева ; at the FIS after an English transcription, Aleksandra Prokopyeva ; born July 24, 1994 in Montschegorsk , Murmansk Oblast ) is a Russian ski racer . She starts in all disciplines.

biography

Alexandra Prokopjewa comes from Montschegorsk in northwestern Russia. Her father, a former Soviet champion, introduced her and her brother to skiing at an early age. At the age of 13 she went to the boarding school Leonid Tjagachev in Moscow . After graduating from school, she studied at the West Moscow Tourism Institute.

At the age of 15 she competed in her first FIS races in Bad Kleinkirchheim . With good results at the Russian Championships 2010 in Terskol, she qualified for the national team. In February 2011 she took part in the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Liberec , where she was eliminated in the first round of both giant slalom and slalom. In September 2011 she competed in the South American Cup for the first time and celebrated three race victories in Chile , with which she won both the downhill and the Super-G classification. In December of the same year she made her debut in the European Cup , in which she has been used regularly since then.

Prokopjewa made her World Cup debut on February 18, 2012 in Rosa Khutor , but due to the weather-related demolition, she did not leave the starting house. In the Junior World Championships in Roccaraso It reached eleventh place in the Super-G a result that they no longer meet in two other JWM participations konnte.2013 she started in the World Cup in Schladming first time in a major event and achieved rank 23 in the Super -Combine your personal best. At the end of the 2014/15 season, she was crowned double national champion in Rosa Chutor in the speed disciplines. She contracted a compression fracture in her knee towards the end of the following season . The winter of 2016/17 was more pleasant for them. After her second World Cup participation in St. Moritz , where she was able to classify herself in four disciplines, she won her first World Cup point in the combination of Crans-Montana with 30th place. At the end of the season, she became the Russian giant slalom champion for the first time.

After another four victories in the South American Cup, she injured herself again in October and thus missed the 2017/18 season. In September 2018 she came back to international competition via the South American Cup. So she won both downhill runs and both Super-G in La Parva. In October she took part in the qualification for the World Cup in Sölden, but missed the competition. On November 30, 2018, she started again in the World Cup in Lake Louise, but remained 37th behind the points. In December she competed in two races as part of the European Cup. After 23rd place in Andalo Paganella's first giant slalom, she did not finish in the second.

At the Alpine World Ski Championships in Åre in 2019 , she was 23rd in the combined and 43rd in the giant slalom. In the downhill she was 36th. In March she won her second Russian championship title in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in the Super-G after 2015.

successes

World championships

  • Schladming : 23rd super combination, 34th descent
  • St. Moritz 2017 : 24th Super-G, 25th combination, 27th descent, 38th giant slalom
  • Åre 2019 : 23rd combination, 43rd giant slalom, 36th descent

World cup

  • 2 placements among the best 30

World Cup placements

season total Departure combination
space Points space Points space Points
2016/17 134. 1 - - 53. 1
2019/20 112. 9 43. 9 - -

South American Cup

  • 2011 season: 4th overall ranking, 1st downhill ranking, 1st Super-G ranking
  • 2012 season: 7th overall ranking, 1st downhill ranking, 10th Super-G ranking
  • 2017 season : 5th overall ranking, 1st Super-G ranking, 1st combined ranking, 4th downhill ranking
  • 2018 season : 4th overall ranking, 1st downhill ranking, 1st combined ranking
  • 16 podium places, including 13 wins:
date place country discipline
September 6, 2011 La Parva Chile Departure
September 7, 2011 La Parva Chile Departure
September 8, 2011 La Parva Chile Super G
4th September 2012 La Parva Chile Departure
4th September 2012 La Parva Chile Departure
18th September 2017 El Colorado Chile Super G
20th September 2017 El Colorado Chile Departure
September 21, 2017 El Colorado Chile Departure
September 21, 2017 El Colorado Chile combination
4th September 2018 La Parva Chile Departure
4th September 2018 La Parva Chile Departure
5th September 2018 La Parva Chile Super G
5th September 2018 La Parva Chile Super G
  1. The races of the South American Cup are held annually in August and September (southern winter) and are assigned to the coming international season.

Far East Cup

  • Season 2016/17 : 11th overall ranking, 15th giant slalom ranking, 45th slalom ranking, 2nd Super G ranking
  • 2018/19 season : 34th overall ranking, 37th giant slalom ranking
  • 4 podium places, including 2 wins:
date place country discipline
17th March 2017 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Russia Super G
18th March 2017 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Russia Super G

Nor-Am Cup

Australia New Zealand Cup

  • 2014 season : 56th overall ranking, 38th giant slalom ranking

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

  • 4 Russian championship titles (Downhill and Super-G 2015, Giant Slalom 2017, Super-G 2019)
  • 9 victories in FIS races

Web links

Commons : Alexandra Prokopjewa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Александра Прокопьева - наша горнолыжная надежда. Skistop.ru, accessed March 4, 2018 (Russian).