Gennadi Karpinkin lives in Minsk . He started biathlon in 1983. Towards the end of the 1980s he made his debut for the Soviet Union starting in the World Cup . He finished the 1989/90 season in 43rd place overall. At the Universiade 1989 in Sofia he won the relay, in 1993 in Zakopane , Poland , he finished second at the Universiade in the 15 km race, together with Nikolai Dobrochwalow , Sergei Nekrasov and Fyodor Swoboda he won the relay race. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he was part of the first Belarusian national team and until 1996 he played in the World Cup again and again. His best result by far he achieved in 1993 when he finished sixth in a sprint race in Pokljuka . The only point win of the season was enough to achieve 48th place in the overall ranking of the World Cup. Karpinkin achieved his greatest success at the 1994 European Championships in Kontiolahti , when he won the bronze medal behind the Russians and Poles in the relay race behind the Russians and Poles in the first ever continental title fights with Igor Chochryakov , Dzmitryj Krywel and Jauhen Redskin .
Placements in the biathlon world cup
The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).
1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
Soviet Union Belarus
