Yuri Alexandrovich Wesjolow

Yuri Alexandrovich Wesjolow ( Russian Юрий Александрович Весёлов *  20th February 1982 in Krasnoyarsk ) is a Russian luger .

Career

Yuri Wesjolow has been running luge since 1999 and has been a member of the Russian national team since 2001. The student was Untermann in a two-seater with Michail Kuzmitsch . His first big success was the participation in the 2002 Olympic Games of Salt Lake City where he finished 14th. In the 2002/03 season , the double was 13th in the overall World Cup and at the 2003 Luge World Championships . In the following season they reached the ninth and eleventh place at the Luge World Championships in 2004 from Nagano in double and eighth with the Russian team in the team competition. At the European Championship of the year inOberhof they finished fifth with the team.

The 2004/05 season was moderately successful. It got better again in the 2005/06 season . In the overall ranking of the Luge World Cup , Kusmitsch / Wesjolow finished tenth and ninth in the Luge Challenge Cup 2005/2006 . With the team, they finished fourth at the 2006 European Championships in Winterberg , and came twelfth in doubles. A place better they came at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games of Turin one.

Web links

• Yuri Alexandrowitsch Wesjolow in the database of the International Luge Federation
• Yuri Alexandrowitsch Wesjolow in the database of infosport.ru (Russian)