Boris Vladimirovich Tortunov

Boris Tortunov
Date of birth	August 14, 1973
place of birth	Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR
size	180 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
until 1992	HK Metschel Chelyabinsk
1992-1996	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
1996-1997	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
1997-2000	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2000-2001	Yaroslavl locomotive
2001-2002	Krylya Sovetov Moscow
2002-2003	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2003-2004	Chimik Voskressensk Ak Bars Kazan
2004-2005	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2005-2007	HK Awangard Omsk
2007-2008	HK Dinamo Minsk
2008-2009	Vityaz Chekhov
2009	HK Jesenice

Boris Wladimirowitsch Tortunow ( Russian Борис Владимирович Тортунов ; born August 14, 1973 in Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey goalkeeper .

Career

Boris Tortunow began his career as a hockey player in his hometown at HK Metschel Chelyabinsk , for whose professional team he made his debut in the second-rate Wysschaya League in the 1991/92 season . In the course of the following season, the goalkeeper moved to HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk , for which he was active in the super league in the following four and a half years . After he had spent the 1996/97 season with Metallurg's league rivals Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk , he returned to Magnitogorsk, with whom he won the European Hockey League in 1999 and 2000, respectively . He was also in the 1998/99 season with the team from Chelyabinsk Oblast for the first time in his career Russian champions . Last year he was runner-up and cup winner with his team.

Towards the end of the 1999/2000 season Tortunow signed with Lokomotive Yaroslavl , for which he played for a year as well as then for Krylja Sowetow Moscow . For the 2002/03 season, the Russian returned to Magnitogorsk. After he had started the following season at Chimik Woskressensk and Ak Bars Kazan in the Superliga, he signed in his hometown with the second division club HK Traktor Chelyabinsk . From 2005 to 2007, the Russian champions came from 1999 for HK Awangard Omsk in the super league, with which he failed in the 2005/06 season at his ex-club Ak Bars Kazan only in the playoff final. He started the 2007/08 season at HK Dinamo Minsk from the Belarusian extra league . He left this after only ten games (one of which he had played for Minsk's second team) and was signed by Vityas Chekhov .

For Vitjas Chekhov Tortunov also played in the 2008/09 season in the newly founded Continental Hockey League . In this he had a clearly negative balance with only two wins in 16 games in which he stood between the posts at the decisive goal, which is why his contract was not extended at the end of the season. For the 2009/10 season he moved to HK Jesenice from the Austrian ice hockey league , but was dismissed from his team after three poor performances, whereupon he ended his career.

Achievements and Awards

• 1998 Russian runner-up with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 1998 Russian cup winner with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 1999 Russian champion with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 1999 European Hockey League win with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 2000 European Hockey League win with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
• 2006 Russian runner-up with the HK Awangard Omsk

Web links

• Boris Tortunow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Boris Wladimirowitsch Tortunow at eurohockey.com
• Boris Tortunow at eliteprospects.com (English)