Michail Makarow is a student and lives in Jena . He has been involved in bobsleigh since 2004 and competes for the BSR Rennsteig Oberhof . In 2006 he won the title of Junior World Champion in Manuel Machata's four-man bobsleigh . In the same year he was also the winner of the German Junior Championship. In 2007 he won bronze at the Junior World Championships in Altenberg, as well as in Igls in 2008 . In 2009 he was runner-up in the junior world champion in Königssee and in 2010 he won the title again in St. Moritz , both in the four-man bobsleigh.
Makarow made his men's debut in December 2005 in Igls when he was 12th in the four-man bobsleigh alongside André Lange , Udo Lehmann and Thomas Pöge . In 2006 there was another assignment in the big sled of pilot Karl Angerer , in which he was only 18th. In the 2007/08 season Makarov was regularly used in Manuel Machata's sled in the European Bobsleigh Cup . He won his first two races in the four-man bobsleigh in Igls and Königssee. By 2010 he won six European Cup races in the Machata bobsleigh, in which he was mostly used in a four-man bobsleigh, and occasionally also in a two-man bobsleigh.
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