Yevgeny Sergeyevich Popov

Evgeni Sergejewitsch Popow ( Russian Евгений Сергеевич Попов , English transcription Yevgeniy Popov ; born April 25, 1976 in Krasnoyarsk ) is a Russian bobsleigh pilot .

Yevgeny Popov began taking part in bobsleigh competitions in 1996. He was promoted to the national bobsleigh team just a year later. Popow takes part in both the two-man and the four-man bobsleigh competition. Among his most important pushers are or were Dmitri Stjopuschkin , Dmitri Trunenkow , Alexei Andryunin , Roman Oreschnikow and Pyotr Makarchuk . Since 2004 he has been one of the world's top bobsleighers in both bobsleigh classes.

In his first World Cup season in 2004/2005, he did not get beyond sixth place in the Altenberg 2-man bobsleigh race . In the following season he celebrated the first podium of his career in the four-man bobsleigh with third place in Cesana Pariol . With three World Cup victories and two second places, the 2006/2007 season was his most successful to date. In the four-man competition, he won the overall World Cup this season. At the Olympic Winter Games of Turin in 2006, he finished ninth among the four- and the 18th place in the two-.

Since the 2007/08 season, Popow stagnated in his performances. By the 2008/09 season they began to deteriorate noticeably. After Popow refused to work with the association to improve materials, he had to leave the World Cup team at the end of 2008.

Web links

• Yevgeny Sergejewitsch Popow in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Yevgeny Sergejewitsch Popov in the infosport.ru database (Russian)

Individual evidence

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