Yevgeny Klimov  
|
|
|
Full name
|
Yevgeny Dmitrievich Klimov
|
|
nation
|
Russia Russia
|
|
birthday
|
3rd February 1994 (age 26)
|
|
place of birth
|
Perm , Russia
|
|
size
|
174 cm
|
|
Weight
|
60 kg
|
| Career
|
|
discipline
|
Nordic combined
ski jumping
|
|
society
|
GBU TSTOVS Moskovskaya oblast Ski s
|
|
status
|
active
|
| Medal table
|
| JWM medals
|
0 × 
|
0 × 
|
1 × 
|
| Universiade medals
|
1 ×
|
0 ×
|
1 ×
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Podium placements
|
1.
|
2.
|
3.
|
|
World Cup individual jumping
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
|
World Cup ski flying
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
|
Grand Prix individual jumping
|
1
|
4th
|
4th
|
|
Continental Cup individual competition
|
2
|
3
|
0
|
|
|
last change: August 23, 2020
|
Yevgeny Dmitrijewitsch Klimow ( Russian Евге́ний Дми́триевич Кли́мов ; born February 3, 1994 in Perm ) is a Russian ski jumper and former Nordic combined athlete . One of his greatest successes was winning the Summer Grand Prix 2018 .
Career
2011 to 2013: First international competitions
Yevgeny Klimow was primarily active as a Nordic combined athlete at the beginning of his career. He played his first international competitions at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Liberec, Czech Republic in February 2011. In the Nordic Combined competitions, he was 13th in the individual and fourth in the team competition with the Russian team. In ski jumping he was eleventh in the team competition with the Russian team.
On January 7th and 8th, 2012 Klimow made his debut in the Continental Cup of Nordic Combined in Erzurum, Turkey , reaching places 33 and 34. He collected his first Continental Cup points on February 17th, 2012 as 26th in Kranj, Slovenia . Klimow then started in February 2012 at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2012 in Erzurum, where he was 25th and sixth in the individual competitions as well as fifth with the Russian team.
Klimov achieved his best results in the 2012/13 Nordic Combined Continental Cup in Tchaikovsky . There he was twelfth in the Gundersen competition and sixth in the team sprint. He then took part in the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2013 in Liberec, where he was used in both Nordic combined and in the ski jumping team competition. One month later, he started the Nordic Combined competitions at the 2013 Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme, Italy .
2013/14 season: World Cup debut and Olympic Winter Games
On November 30, 2013 Klimow made his debut in Kuusamo, Finland in the Nordic Combined World Cup . With 30th place in the individual competition, he achieved his first World Cup point. The next day he finished eighth with the team. He stayed in the Russian World Cup line- up until the end of the 2013/14 season , but did not make any further points. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 2014 in Val di Fiemme, Klimow again competed as a combined skier and as a special jumper. In the Nordic Combined he finished fourth in the individual and sixth in the team. He won the bronze medal in individual ski jumping.
In February 2014 Klimow took part in two Nordic Combined competitions as part of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . Here he finished 45th and last place in the individual competition on the normal hill, after he had been in third place after jumping. In the team competition with the Russian team, he was ninth and last. Klimow also started training for the ski jumping team competition, but was ultimately not given a place in the Russian team's line-up for the competition.
Season 2014/15: Change to special jumping
In the Nordic Combined World Cup 2014/15 , Klimow never reached the points. After the first four World Cup positions, he returned to the Continental Cup, where he stayed until mid-February. At the 2015 Winter Universiade in Štrbské Pleso , Slovakia , he took part in the mass start of the Nordic combined and came in 16th. In ski jumping, he won the bronze medal in the individual competition. In the team competition of ski jumpers he won the gold medal with Mikhail Maximotschkin and Ilmir Chasetdinow .
After it became clear in the Nordic Combined that Klimow forgave the good results that could be expected from good jumps after the first round of poor mileage, he decided at the end of the 2014/15 season to switch to ski jumping. In two competitions on February 21 and 22, 2015 in the FIS Cup in Hinterzarten , he came third and first. A few days later he passed the qualification for the individual competition of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 on the large hill and took 35th place in the competition the next day. On March 14th and 15th, 2015, Klimow made his debut in Nizhny Tagil in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup . In the first competition he reached fourth place.
2015/16 season: Debut in the ski jumping World Cup
Klimow started at the Ski Jumping Grand Prix 2015 in Tchaikovsky and reached 14th place there. For the 2015/16 season he came to the Russian team for the Ski Jumping World Cup . At the season opener in Klingenthal , Klimow started for the first time in a team competition on November 21 and for the first time in an individual competition in the ski jumping World Cup on November 22. In the team competition he was tenth with the Russian team. After he finished sixth in the qualification for the individual competition a day later, he was 32nd in the competition. He scored his first points in the ski jumping World Cup with 18th place on December 12, 2015 in Nizhny Tagil. In December 2015 Klimow was nominated by the Russian head coach for the competitions of the Four Hills Tournament 2015/16 . After he was able to win his duel in the first round in Oberstdorf and in the end reached the 28th place, he was eliminated in Garmisch-Partenkirchen as 43rd in the first round, in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen already in the qualification. Two weeks later, Klimow took part in training for the 2016 Ski Flying World Championship on the Kulm . There he did not get a starting place in the squad of the Russian team for the qualification.
Season 2016/17: approaching the world's best
Klimow began the season as a major force in the Russian World Cup team. At the season opener in Ruka he was able to easily qualify for the jumping, but retired in the first jumping as 45th, which he did better a day later. Here he reached a strong 12th place. Further good results followed with a 16th place in Klingenthal and a 20th place in Lillehammer . Shortly before the start of the Four Hills Tournament 2016/17 , he further confirmed his previously shown performances in the World Cup, with an 18th and 16th place in the two competitions in Engelberg . The Four Hills Tournament started well for him. A 13th place in Oberstdorf and an 18th place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen brought him to 14th after halftime of the tour. In Innsbruck he was able to celebrate his greatest success in his still young ski jumping career. He was able to celebrate third place on the podium behind Daniel-André Tande and Robert Johansson , which was his first ever World Cup podium. As a result, after three jumps, he improved to 10th place in the Four Hills Tournament. After the final competition in Bischofshofen , which he finished 16th, he ended up in twelfth place in the overall ranking. During the remainder of the season he continued to jump regularly among the top 20. With tenth place in Zakopane in January and seventh place in Pyeongchang in February, he also achieved two other top ten placements. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti , he took 22nd place on the normal hill and 20th place on the large hill in the individual competitions, making him the best Russian in each case. With the Russian team he was sixth in the mixed team competition on the normal hill and ninth in the team competition on the large hill. In the overall World Cup for the 2016/17 season , he finished 17th with 382 points.
2017/18 season: Olympic Winter Games as a ski jumper
In the summer of 2017, Klimow confirmed his aspiring form. He entered the Summer Grand Prix in Hakuba with places seven and eleven . He then achieved his first podium finishes in the Grand Prix on September 9 and 10, 2017 in Tchaikovsky in second and third. In Hinzenbach he finished eighth. In the Grand Prix overall standings, he finished fifth with 232 points. In the winter season 2017/18 he could not confirm the performances from the previous year or from the summer. In the World Cup he only reached the points twice with 26th place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and 29th place in Lahti . At the other starts he was eliminated in the first round or failed in qualifying. In addition to appearing in the World Cup, he competed in the Continental Cup in Sapporo in January 2018 . On January 27, 2018, he achieved his first podium finish in the COC in second place. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he started as an Olympic athlete from Russia and competed in all three competitions. In the individual competition on the normal hill , he took 30th place and in the individual competition on the large hill, he took 26th place. With the Russian team he was seventh in the team competition on the large hill .
2018/19 season: Winning the Summer Grand Prix and first World Cup victory
After finishing fifth in the Summer Grand Prix last year, he jumped to the top in the summer of 2018: After winning the Tremplin du Praz in Courchevel, France and five other podium finishes (three times second and twice third), he was able to won the Grand Prix with 555 points, clearly ahead of the German Karl Geiger (416) and the Polish Piotr łyła . At the World Cup kick-off on November 18, 2018 in Wisła , he was the first Russian to win an individual ski jumping World Cup. At the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld in Tyrol , he was 18th on the large hill and 35th on the normal hill and reached places nine (men) and seven (mixed) with the Russian teams.
At the Russian championships in February 2020 in Nizhny Tagil , Klimow became Russian champions on the normal and large hill as well as with the mixed team.
Success in ski jumping
World Cup victories in individual
| No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
| 1. |
18th November 2018 |
Poland Wisła
|
Large hill
|
Individual Grand Prix victories
| No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
| 1. |
11th August 2018 |
France Courchevel
|
Large hill
|
Continental Cup wins in singles
| No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
| 1. |
5th July 2019 |
Slovenia Kranj
|
Normal hill
|
| 2. |
6th July 2019 |
Slovenia Kranj
|
Normal hill
|
statistics
Nordic combination
World Cup placements
Continental Cup placements
Ski jumping
World Cup placements
Four Hills Tournament placements
Grand Prix placements
Continental Cup placements
Web links
Individual evidence
-
↑ First World Cup victory for Evgeniy Klimov. In: berkutschi.com. November 18, 2018, accessed November 19, 2018 .
