Aljaksandr Uszinau

Aljaksandr Uszinau
Association	Belarus
birthday	November 20, 1978
place of birth	Soviet Union
Career
status	resigned
End of career	2007 (?)
Medal table
SWM medals 2 × 1 × 3 ×
Summer biathlon world championships gold 2001 Jambrozowa Cross-country relay silver 2002 Jablonec nad Nisou Cross-country relay gold 2004 Osrblie Cross-country relay bronze 2005 Muonio Cross-country sprint bronze 2005 Muonio Cross-country relay bronze 2006 Ufa Cross-country mixed relay
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

Aljaksandr Uszinau ( Belarusian Аляксандр Усцінаў , English transcription Aliaksandr Ustsinau ; born November 20, 1978 ) is a former Belarusian biathlete who celebrated his greatest successes in the sub-discipline of cross-country running - summer athletes in the first half of the 2000s belonged at international level.

Aljaksandr Uszinau was initially used internationally in classic winter biathlon. He contested his first major races at the Biathlon Junior World Championships in 1997 in Forni Avoltri and finished 49th in the individual and tenth in the sprint. In the men he only took part in the Biathlon European Championships 2000 in Kościelisko at a major event and was 41st of the individual.

Uszinau was far more successful in the summer. Here he took part for the first time in 1998 in Osrblie in summer biathlon world championships and was 24th in sprint and pursuit. He achieved even better results in 2000 in Khanty-Mansiysk . In the sprint he reached the top ten for the first time in tenth, fell back to 21st place in the pursuit race and came in fifth in the relay race with Iwan Pesterew , Denis Bystrik and Sjarhej Nowikau . 2001 Uszinau won in Jambrozowa with Oleksij Ajdarow , Rustam Waliullin and Iwan Pesterew din title in the relay race and thus achieved his greatest international success. In 2002 in Jablonec nad Nisou with Pesterew, Novikau and Vadim Saschurin in the relay race, only Russia had to admit defeat. A year later he missed out on fourth place with Nowikau, Pesterew and Saschurin in Forni Avoltri. He was 12th in the sprint, 11th in the pursuer and eighth in the mass start race. In 2004 Uszinau repeated his greatest success in Osrblie on the side of Aljaksandr Syman , Rustam Waliullin and Iwan Pesterew and won again relay gold. In the sprint he just missed a first individual medal in fourth place, in the pursuit race he was sixth, in the mass start race 15. In 2005 the Belarusian relay with Uszinau, Nowikau, Waliullin and Syman won the bronze medal in the relay race in Muonio and behind Alexander Katschanowski and Aljaksandr Syman also won bronze his first and only individual medal in the sprint. He narrowly missed another medal as fourth in the pursuit and the mass start. He won his last medal in Ufa in 2006 with Tazzjana Schyntar , Natallja Sakalowa and Wital Perzau in the first mixed relay race that replaced the relay races of the sexes. He also finished seventh in the sprint and eleventh in the pursuit. At his last World Championships in 2007 in Otepää , Uszinau with Hanna Zwetawa , Natallja Sakalowa and Dsmitryj Frydman narrowly missed winning a medal for the second time in a relay race in fourth place. In the sprint he came in 13th, in the pursuit race in 12th place.

Web links

• Aljaksandr Uszinau in the IBU database (English)