Alexei Alexandrovich Kobelev

Alexei Kobelev
Full name	Alexei Alexandrovich Kobelev
Association	Russia
birthday	July 27, 1971
place of birth	Izhevsk,  Soviet Union
Career
job	police officer
society	Dynamo Izhevsk
Debut in the World Cup	1992
World Cup victories	2
status	resigned
End of career	2005
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 0 × SWM medals 4 × 3 × 2 ×
World championships silver 1993 Borovetz team silver 1994 Canmore team gold 1996 Ruhpolding Season bronze 1998 Hochfilzen team European championships gold 1996 Ridnaun Season silver 1999 Izhevsk Season  Summer biathlon world championships gold 1996 Hochfilzen singles gold 1998 Osrblie sprint silver 1998 Osrblie persecution gold 1999 Minsk Season bronze 1999 Minsk sprint bronze 1999 Minsk persecution gold 2002 Jablonec Season silver 2005 Munio Mass start silver 2005 Munio Season
World Cup balance
last change: October 14, 2009

Alexei Alexandrowitsch Kobelew ( Russian Алексей Александрович Кобелев ; born July 27, 1971 in Izhevsk ) is a former Russian biathlete . He is one of the most successful summer biathletes at world championships and also celebrated successes in winter. He is one of the few biathletes who became world champions in summer and winter.

Alexei Kobelev is married, lives in his native Izhevsk and works as a police officer. He has been biathlon since 1982 and started for Dynamo Izhevsk . He contested his first biathlon world cup race in Pokljuka in 1992 and immediately achieved his first top ten results with tenth place in the individual and seventh place in the sprint. After he achieved very good results in the first three World Cup stations and ran up to fourth place in an individual in Antholz , he broke down for the rest of the season and only achieved World Cup points once. It was only at the beginning of the 1994/95 season that he was able to stabilize his performance again at a higher level. In 1995 he won his first World Cup race with a sprint in Oberhof , and in 1998 he won another sprint in Östersund . In the 1995/96 season Kobelev reached tenth place in the overall standings. In total, he reached four podium places in his World Cup career. In Borovets Kobelew won together with Valery Kiriyenko , Sergei Loskin and Sergei Tschepikow at the World Championships in 1993 behind the team from Germany the silver medal. With Vladimir Drachev , Kirienko and Tschepikow, he won silver again the following year with the team in Canmore , now behind the representation of Italy. In 1995 he started again at the biathlon world championships in Antholz and was 49th in the sprint race and eighth in the relay. A year later in Ruhpolding Kobelew was fifth in the individual, tenth in the sprint and won the gold medal together with Wiktor Maigurow , Dratschow and Sergei Tarasow as the final runner of the relay. He also won the gold medal at the 1996 European Biathlon Championships in Ridnaun alongside Maigurow, Dratschow and Sergei Roschkow as the final runner of the relay. The only start at the Olympic Games , in 1998 in Nagano , was disappointing with rank 56 in the sprint. In 1999 he won silver in his hometown of Izhevsk with Sergei Konovalov , Eduard Rjabow and Pawel Muslimow behind Germany as the starting runner of the Russian relay. Kobelew competed in the last World Cup races in 2001, after which he only competed in the European Biathlon Cup until the mid-2000s .

Kobelev achieved his far greater success in the summer biathlon. He won the individual title at the first World Championships in 1996 in Hochfilzen . In 1998 in Osrblie he won the sprint race and came second in the pursuit behind Wilfried Pallhuber . In 1999 in Minsk a bronze medal was added in the sprint behind Rustam Waliullin and Wadim Saschurin , and in the pursuit Kobelew also won bronze behind Saschurin and Ilmārs Bricis . With Sergei Proswirnin , Alexei Kowjasin and Dmitri Nikiforow he also won the gold medal as the starting runner of the relay. In Jablonec nad Nisou Kobelew won the gold medal again in 2002 with Pawel Tschuprijanow , Proswirnin and Nikiforow as the first runner. He won the last medals at the 2005 World Championships in Muonio . In the relay race he was again starting runner and won the silver medal behind the relay of the Czech Republic with Oleg Rudenko , Iwan Bogdanow and Alexander Katschanowski . He also won silver in the mass start behind Aljaksandr Syman .

Results in the biathlon world cup

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

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place		2				2	4th
2nd place	1						1
3rd place		1				3	4th
Top 10	10	10			1	7th	28
Scoring	15th	24	8th	2	1	7th	57
Starts	34	47	9	2	1	7th	100
Status : data may be incomplete

Web links

• Alexei Alexandrowitsch Kobelew in the IBU database (English)