Yuri Fyodorowitsch Kashkarow

Yuri Kashkarov
Association	Soviet Union
birthday	4th December 1963
place of birth	Khanty-Mansiysk ,  Soviet Union
Career
job	Biathlon coach
society	Dynamo Sverdlovsk
Trainer	Viktor Mamatov , Vladimir Putrov
Admission to the national team	1982
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 5 × 3 × 1 × Championships of the USSR 3 × ? × ? ×
winter Olympics gold 1984 Sarajevo Season  Biathlon world championships gold 1983 Antholz Season gold 1985 Ruhpolding singles gold 1985 Ruhpolding Season gold 1986 Oslo Season silver 1987 Lake Placid Season gold 1989 Feistritz team silver 1989 Feistritz Season bronze 1989 Feistritz sprint silver 1991 Lahti Season USSR championships gold 1986 Season gold 1987 sprint gold 1987 Military patrol 25 km
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	2.  ( 1984/85 )

Yuri Fjodorowitsch Kaschkarow ( Russian Юрий Фёдорович Кашкаров; born December 4, 1963 in Khanty-Mansiysk ) is a former Soviet biathlete . With five gold, three silver and one bronze medal, he is one of the most successful athletes at biathlon world championships .

Yuri Kashkarow has four older brothers. Even before he started school, he was on skis for the first time. In the fourth grade he switched to a sports school. He competed in his first successful ski competition in seventh grade. A short time later, Vladimir Putrov brought him to the Sverdlovsk Sports School. At that time there were no opportunities to practice biathlon at a high level in Khanty-Mansiysk and the biathlon center of the Soviet Union was in Sverdlovsk . There he began with the sport of biathlon and made it into the junior national team of the USSR in the early 1980s. At the age of 17, the Junior World Championships in Lahti in 1981 , which were held as part of the Biathlon World Championships until 1988, were his first international competition. He had planned a lot for it, but remained well below his possibilities and had to be satisfied with 32nd place over 10 km. But his coaches did not give up on him and the next year the then junior selection trainer Salinski appointed him to the team for the 1982 Junior World Championships in Minsk . There he clearly improved and was 1st over 15 km, 3rd over 10 km and 2nd in the relay triple medal winner.

The 1983 biathlon world championships in Antholz were his big breakthrough. Although he was still a junior, he was allowed to start in the junior and senior classes. In the junior class he won over 10 km and with the relay. In the senior class he finished 7th in the individual race over 20 km with three shooting errors. In the relay race of the seniors he won the gold medal together with Algimantas Schalna , Pyotr Miloradow and Sergei Bulygin in front of the teams of the GDR and Norway. At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , he was 10th in the sprint and 35th in the individual. With the Soviet relay he was able to win gold again. In a much more exciting race than the year before, he won with Dmitri Wassiljew , Schalna and Bulygin ahead of Norway and the Federal Republic of Germany.

In 1985 he celebrated his greatest successes in biathlon. He won the gold medal in the individual at the 1985 biathlon world championships in Ruhpolding . In the end, with zero shooting errors, he had almost a minute and a half ahead of runner-up Frank-Peter Roetsch . In the season he was able to win gold again with Schalna, Bulygin and Andrei Senkow . In the overall ranking of the Biathlon World Cup he achieved the best result of his career in 1984/85 with second place behind Frank-Peter Roetsch.

A year later at the 1986 World Championships in Oslo he did not manage to defend his title with a 6th place over 20 km, but in the relay he won his fourth world championship gold medal with Vasilyev, Valeri Medvedzew and Bulygin. Also at the 1987 Biathlon World Championships in Lake Placid he was well on his way with 6th place in the sprint and 5th place in the individual, but in the relay it was only enough to silver with Wassiljew, Alexander Popow and Medvedzew behind the relay of the GDR.

The 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary were a bit disappointing for him. They started quite promisingly with a fifth place in the individual, but after an 18th place in the sprint he was not considered for the relay and could only watch his teammates win the gold medal. The 1989 biathlon world championships in Feistritz an der Drau were more successful again with three medals. A bronze medal in the sprint was followed by gold in the team competition, which was held for the first time at a World Cup. Together with Bulygin, Popow and Sergei Tschepikow , the Soviet Union won against Germany and the GDR with just one shooting error. On the final day of the World Cup, it was enough for the Soviet relay, which competed in the same line-up as in the team competition, with silver behind the GDR.

At the World Championships in 1990 , which took place in a total of three different locations due to poor conditions and postponements, Kashkarow remained for the first time at the World Championships without a medal. In the individual in Soviet Minsk he was fourth, as well as in the team competition in Oslo. In the relay race, which was canceled on the first attempt in Oslo due to heavy fog during the race and could only be held later in Kontiolahti , Finland , the Soviet Union took fifth place. The 1991 biathlon world championships in Lahti were the last major championships for Yuri Kaschkarow. He was 12th in the sprint and won with Popow, Sergei Tarasow and Tschepikow relay silver under the flag of the United Team , in the individual and in the team he was not used.

Yuri Kaschkarow is 1.86 m tall and had a competition weight of 80 kg. After his career he worked for some time at the biathlon center in Khanty-Mansiysk. Today he lives with his family in Moscow and works as a biathlon trainer. In his spare time he plays tennis or soccer.

Web links

• Yuri Fjodorowitsch Kaschkarow in the IBU database (English)
• Yuri Kaschkarow in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Profile on admhmansy.ru , the website of Khanty-Mansiysk (English)
• Juri Fjodorowitsch Kaschkarow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )