Alexei Michailowitsch Frossin

Alexei Michailowitsch Frossin ( Russian Алексей Михайлович Фросин ; born February 14, 1978 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian saber fencer .

successes

Alexei Frossin was world champion with the team in Nîmes in 2001 , in Lisbon in 2002 and in Leipzig in 2005 . In 1999 in Seoul and 2006 in Turin he won the bronze medal, which he also won in 2006 in the individual competition. Between 2000 and 2008 he was five times European champion in team competition , a success that he achieved in 1997 in Gdansk in individual. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney he moved into the team competition after victories over Hungary in the quarterfinals and Romania in the semifinals in the battle for gold, which was won 45:32 against France . Together with Stanislaw Posdnjakow and Sergei Scharikow , who had already won gold with Grigori Kirijenko four years earlier , Frossin became Olympic champion . In the individual he was eliminated in the quarterfinals against Wiradech Kothny and ultimately finished sixth.

Alexei Frossin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

personal data
SURNAME	Frossin, Alexei Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Фросин, Алексей Михайлович (Cyrillic); Frosin, Aleksey (English transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian saber fencer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 14, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow , Russian SFSR