Dmitri Vladimirovich Nikiforov

Dmitry Nikiforov
Full name	Dmitri Wladimirowitsch Nikiforow Дмитрий Владимирович Никифоров
Association	Russia
birthday	17th January 1975
place of birth	Novosibirsk,  Soviet Union
Career
society	Dinamo
Trainer	Vladimir Leonidowitsch Nikiforow A. A. Melnikova, SN Basow
status	active
Medal table
SWM medals 6 × 2 × 2 × SEM medals 2 × 1 × 0 ×
Summer biathlon world championships silver 1997 Krakow Season gold 1999 Minsk Season gold 2000 Khanty-Mansiysk persecution gold 2000 Khanty-Mansiysk Season silver 2000 Khanty-Mansiysk sprint bronze 2001 Jambrozowa Season gold 2002 Jablonec persecution gold 2002 Jablonec Season gold 2003 Forni Avoltri Mixed bronze 2006 Ufa sprint  Summer biathlon European championships gold 2005 Bystrice Mass start gold 2005 Bystrice Season silver 2005 Bystrice sprint
World Cup balance
last change: October 14, 2009

Dmitri Wladimirowitsch Nikiforow ( Russian Дмитрий Владимирович Никифоров ; born January 17, 1975 in Novosibirsk ) is a Russian summer biathlete . With six titles and a total of ten medals, he is the most successful male participant in summer biathlon world championships .

Dmitri Nikiforow comes from a family of athletes, his father is the biathlon trainer Vladimir Nikiforow, his mother a sports teacher. He started cross-country skiing in 1983 and biathlon two years later, in 1994 he became Russian Master of Sports , 2000 Honored Master of Sports . Nikiforow started for the first time in 1997 in Krakow at a summer biathlon world championship and won the silver medal with Oleg Rudenko , Konstantin Popow and Sergei Russinow behind the representation from Norway in the first relay competition. He won in 1999 in Minsk at the Summer Biathlon World Championships in 1999 at the side of Alexei Kobelew , Sergei Proswirnin and Alexei Kowjasin with the Russian relay team its first world championship gold medal.

2000 came in Khanty-Mansiysk on the side of Kovjasin, Andrei Prokunin and Proswirnin second relay gold. He also won gold in the pursuit race after winning silver in the sprint behind Indrek Tobreluts . Also in 2001 he won a medal with the Russian relay, in Jambrozowa Nikiforow came next to Kowjasin, Ivan Bogdanow and Alexei Cheeparev behind Belarus and Latvia on the bronze rank. The 2002 World Cup in Jablonec nad Nisou was more successful again . With Kobeljew, Pawel Tschuprijanow and Proswirnin he won his third season gold medal. In addition, in 2003 in Forni Avoltri there was the first title awarded with the mixed relay, which Nikiforow won with Jekaterina Sidorenko , Yevgenia Michailova and Sergei Balandin . So far, he was last able to win a medal at the 2006 World Cup in Ufa . Behind Balandin and Tobreluts, he won bronze in the sprint race. The year before, Nikiforow won at the Summer Biathlon European Championships 2005 in Bystřice pod Hostýnem the title in the mass start and silver behind Timur Nurmejew in the sprint. He also won gold in the mixed relay race with Anna Sotnikowa , Olga Pachomowa and Nurmejew.

Web links

• Dmitri Wladimirowitsch Nikiforow in the IBU database (English)
• Portrait on www.infosport.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Энциклопедия - Encyclopedia ( Russian , PDF) December 11, 2004. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 1, 2014.