Alexei Alexejewitsch Borowitin
Alexei Borowitin 
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| Full name | Alexei Alexejewitsch Borowitin | |||||||||
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 Soviet Union
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| birthday | February 14, 1954 | |||||||||
| place of birth | Kirov | |||||||||
| size | 173 cm | |||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg | |||||||||
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| society | Dynamo Kirov | |||||||||
| National squad | since 1974 | |||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||
| End of career | 1981 | |||||||||
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| Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping | ||||||||||
| Debut in the World Cup | December 30, 1979 | |||||||||
| Overall World Cup | 70th ( 1980/81 ) | |||||||||
Alexei Alexejewitsch Borowitin ( Russian Алексей Алексеевич Боровитин ; born February 14, 1954 in Kirov ) is a former Soviet ski jumper .
Career
His first international tournament denied Borowitin at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1974 in Swedish Falun . He won the bronze medal on the normal hill behind Hans-Georg Aschenbach and Dietrich Kampf . At the Four Hills Tournament 1974/75 he achieved his best result to date in Garmisch-Partenkirchen with 11th place.
At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , he reached 15th place on the normal hill and 19th place on the large hill. At the ski flying world championship in Vikersund in 1977 he jumped to 4th place and missed the medal ranks by just a few meters. About a month later, on March 13, 1977, he won on Holmenkollen ahead of Thomas Meisinger and Walter Steiner .
At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1978 he won the bronze medal again on the normal hill and this time only had to admit defeat to the two German Matthias Buse and Henry Glaß . The year before, he had won the so-called general rehearsal for the world championship on February 27, 1977 on the 90 m hill, ahead of Walter Steiner and Thomas Meisinger.
On December 30, 1979, Borowitin started in the ski jumping World Cup for the first time . In his first two competitions in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen , however, he lagged far behind the points. It was only in Innsbruck that he managed to win World Cup points for the first time in 10th place. In Bischofshofen he also won another World Cup point with 15th place.
At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid he was again in the Soviet Union's squad and reached 21st place on the normal hill and 36th place on the large hill.
He then started again at the Four Hills Tournament 1980/81 , but broke it off after three jumps without success. Two weeks after the tour, he was able to win another five World Cup points in St. Moritz and finished the World Cup season 1980/81 in 70th place in the overall standings.
successes
World Cup placements
| season | space | Points |
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| 1979/80 | 75. | 8th |
| 1980/81 | 70. | 5 |
Web links
- Alexei Alexejewitsch Borowitin in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Alexei Alexejewitsch Borowitin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ "1978: year of probation?" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 14, 1977, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ «Only Toni Innauer kept up» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 28, 1977, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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| SURNAME | Borowitin, Alexei Alexejewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Алексей Алексеевич Боровитин (Russian); Borovitin, Aleksey (English transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet ski jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirov , Soviet Union (today: Russia ) |