Nikolai Karpenko

Nikolai Karpenko
Nikolai Karpenko at the 2011 World Championships
Full name	Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Karpenko Kazakh Николай Николаевич Карпенко
nation	Kazakhstan
birthday	10th August 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Leninogorsk ,  Kazakh SSR
size	179 cm
Career
society	Dinamo
Trainer	Qairat Bijekenow
Pers. Best	181.5 m ( Planica 2009)
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 0 × 1 × 1 × KM medals 2 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Winter Asian Games bronze 2011 Almaty Single large hill silver 2011 Almaty team Kazakh Championships (ski jumping) 2 bronze 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen singles
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	January 8, 2005 (team) February 4, 2006 (individual)
Overall World Cup	58th ( 2007/08 )
Four Hills Tournament	36th ( 2006/07 )
Raw Air	80th ( 2017 )
Nordic Tournament	40th (2009)
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	21st ( 2008 )
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	July 24, 2004
Overall ranking COC	78th ( 2007/08 )
last change: March 25, 2018

Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Karpenko ( Kazakh Николай Николаевич Карпенко , born August 10, 1981 in Leninogorsk , East Kazakhstan Oblast , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union ¹ ) is a Kazakh ski jumper .

He was a member of the Kazakh national squad from 2004 to 2013. In the Ski Jumping World Cup he qualified for 51 individual jumps and collected a total of 42 points. His best individual result in the World Cup was a 19th place. At the 2010 Winter Olympics and the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2009 and 2011 , he reached the finals in an individual competition and was among the top 30 jumpers. At the Winter Asian Games 2011 he won the bronze medal in the individual competition on the large hill and the silver medal in the team competition. This makes him one of the most successful Kazakh ski jumpers of the late 2000s and early 2010s.

Career

Entry into ski jumping

Karpenko started ski jumping at the age of nine. He had previously played basketball for school in Ridder and learned to play drums. He broke off these activities after a friend found him enthusiastic about ski jumping. He then invested all of his free time in ski jumping training. After moving to Almaty , he started working with the trainer and later President of the Kazakh Ski Jumping Association Andrei Werweikin .

Path to the World Cup (2004 to 2006)

In the summer of 2004, Karpenko first appeared in FIS competitions at the age of almost 23 . On July 24, 2004, he made his debut in a summer competition of the Continental Cup . On August 1, 2004, he was first used in a team competition at the Ski Jumping Grand Prix , in which he also competed in an individual competition for the first time on September 4, 2004. At the start of the 2004/05 season on November 27, 2004, he took part for the first time in the qualification for a World Cup individual competition, where he failed.

Until the middle of the 2005/06 season , Karpenko tried in vain to qualify for a World Cup individual competition, so that during the World Cup he was only used in team competitions. In a team competition in the World Cup, he made his debut on January 8, 2005 in Willingen . Even at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf in 2005 , he did not qualify for individual competitions. He was used there in the Kazakh team, which took 11th place out of 15 competed nations both on the normal hill and on the large hill. He scored his first points in the Winter Continental Cup on January 21, 2006 in Titisee-Neustadt . On February 4, 2006, he made his debut in an individual competition in the World Cup in Willingen, after he had passed the qualification for the first time the day before.

Establishment in the midfield (2006 to 2009)

Karpenko was nominated for the 2006 Winter Olympics. In the individual jumping in Pragelato he reached the 48th place on the large hill; he could not qualify for the individual jumping on the normal hill, because he was disqualified in the qualification because of a too big suit. In the team competition, he achieved 12th place out of 16 participants with the Kazakh team. In the World Cup, Karpenko succeeded in qualifying more often in the 2006/07 season , including for the only time in his career in all competitions for the Four Hills Tournament . On January 1, 2007 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he made it to the finals for the first time in the World Cup. He finished the competition in 19th place and scored his first World Cup points; this was also his best individual result in the World Cup. A few weeks later he achieved his best team result in the World Cup at the Willingen team jumping event on February 11, 2007 with 6th place ahead of Russia and Finland . He then took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo . There he achieved 36th place on the large hill and 48th place on the normal hill. In the team competition, he finished 11th out of 13 participants with the Kazakh team. Overall, Karpenko had established himself in 2006/07 as the second strongest jumper in the Kazakh team behind Radik Schaparow .

In the Ski Jumping World Cup 2007/08 Karpenko now had a regular place in the Kazakh squad. He got off to a promising start to the season when he made it into the top 30 four times in the first six individual competitions, earning him a total of 18 World Cup points. He then achieved his best results in this category in the second-class Continental Cup in Engelberg with ranks 9 and 10. He was unable to confirm these results in the further course of the season; no further World Cup points were added. At the ski flying world championship in 2008 on the Heini-Klopfer ski flying hill in Oberstdorf , he was the only Kazakh to qualify for the competition and came in 40th there. Kazakhstan finished the team competition as 13th and last team.

In the summer of 2008 Karpenko completed a promising ski jumping Grand Prix: in nine competitions he made it into the points eight times. He got a total of 93 points and 21st place in the overall ranking. In the Ski Jumping World Cup 2008/09 , however, he permanently missed the finals in the first few weeks. After the Four Hills Tournament, he took a break from competition until the end of January. He then managed to score World Cup points in three more competitions, of which he was able to book a total of 10. Karpenko remained in 2008/09 the only Kazakh ski jumper who could get World Cup points, as Radik Schaparow as the former leader of the Kazakh team could no longer build on his previous performances. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 , Karpenko was 47th in the individual on the normal hill. On the large hill, he achieved the best individual result of his career at a world championship with 26th place. In team jumping he was 12th and last with the Kazakh team; Karpenko himself had achieved the seventh highest number of points in his starting group.

Fight for the connection (2009 to 2012)

At the Kazakh Ski Jumping Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2009, Karpenko won the bronze medal in July 2009. In the 2009 Ski Jumping Grand Prix, he clearly lagged behind his previous year's performance ; he remained without points and failed to qualify for half of his participations. In the 2009/10 Ski Jumping World Cup, too , he was initially overwhelmed with qualification. He succeeded in this season for the first time as part of the Four Hills Tournament at the New Year's event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where, as the sixth best loser in the knockout duels, he barely missed entry into the finals via the lucky loser rule. At the following competition in Innsbruck , he was 29th and finally managed to get World Cup points again. This was the last result within the World Cup points in Karpenko's career as well as the penultimate result of a Kazakh ski jumper in general; Alexei Koroljow was last able to do this a month later in Willingen. In the further course of the season after the Four Hills Tournament Karpenko found it difficult to qualify for World Cup competitions. Karpenko had won one of two quota places for the Kazakh ski jumpers for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , his nomination was undisputed in Kazakhstan. It was precisely at this major event that Karpenko reached the final round in jumping from the normal hill and was 29th. For the individual competition on the large hill, he just failed to qualify as 41st after he had sprained his knee during training the day before.

Nikolai Karpenko at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo 2011

In the summer of 2010 Karpenko saw two points in seven individual competitions in the Ski Jumping Grand Prix. But in the 2010/11 World Cup , he completed his weakest season since entering the World Cup. In five attempts to qualify for an individual competition, he failed clearly five times. After the New Year's competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, he was no longer used in the World Cup for the rest of the season. But as in the previous year, Karpenko showed his best performances at major events, the Winter Asian Games 2011 in Almaty and the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo: at the Asian Games he won the bronze medal in the individual on the large hill behind Kazuya Yoshioka and Kazuyoshi Funaki . Andrei Werweikin, President of the Kazakh Ski Jumping Association, found this like a gold medal in view of the competition from Japan, which he judged to be strong. Karpenko took 4th place on the normal hill. In the team he won the silver medal behind the Japanese with Alexei Koroljow, Radik Schaparow and Yevgeny Lyovkin . At the Nordic World Ski Championships he reached the finals in the individual jumping on the normal hill and was 30. He was less successful in the other World Cup competitions: in the team jumping on the normal hill, Kazakhstan was 12th and last. On the large hill Karpenko was 46th in the individual competition and 10th and last with the team in the team competition.

Karpenko prevented a knee injury from good results in the Ski Jumping Grand Prix 2011 , which he sustained while playing football after arriving in Europe. In the 2011/12 Ski Jumping World Cup , he was in better shape than in the previous season. He had a regular place in the two-man Kazakh World Cup squad and was viewed by the Kazakh media as the leader of the Kazakh national ski jumping team. Karpenko regularly survived the qualification for individual competitions. In team competitions he always managed to beat starters from other nations within his starting group. He was able to book a respectable success with the 15th place in the qualification in Zakopane . The jump into the World Cup points was denied him; in the competition he did not get past 35th place in Zakopane.

Karpenko completed the Ski Jumping Grand Prix 2012 without success . He clearly failed in both qualifications in which he had participated. He only made it into the competition in the two competitions in Almaty, for which no qualification was held due to the small number of participants. On September 23, 2012, he missed the 31st place in the second competition in Almaty for one place Grand Prix points. With that, he narrowly missed an opportunity to provide the Kazakh national ski jumping team with an additional quota place for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . It was initially the last FIS ski jumping of his career.

Car accident and end of career

On the night of November 10, 2012, Karpenko had a car accident together with Alexei Ptschelinzew and Yevgeny Lyovkin in the province of Almaty . Her Toyota Land Cruiser narrowly escaped a collision with a Lexus that had got into oncoming traffic . Your car then skidded and rolled over several times. According to Andrei Werweikin, President of the Kazakh Ski Jumping Association, Karpenko suffered a knee injury. As a result, like his teammates involved, he was unable to take part in any competitions in winter. In March 2013, Werweikin thought it was still possible that Karpenko could take part in the 2014 Winter Olympics. In spring 2013, before the Kazakh senior squad was allocated for the 2013/14 season, Karpenko decided to retire from ski jumping. Qairat Bijekenow , head coach of the Kazakh national ski jumping team, said Karpenko's persistent knee pain has prevented him from continuing his career.

Return in 2016

Three years after his temporary retirement and four years after his last FIS competition, Karpenko made his international comeback on September 17 and 18, 2016 as part of the FIS Cup in Hinterzarten . In the following winter season 2016/17 he also competed in the Continental Cup and the World Cup . In the Continental Cup, he was only able to get 14th and 18th COC points in Erzurum . When he started in the World Cup, he always failed in qualifying in the individual competitions. He was also used in a team competition in Zakopane , where he finished eleventh and last place with the Kazakh team. In February 2017 he took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti , Finland . He failed in both individual competitions already in the qualification and finished twelfth and last place with the Kazakh team.

In the summer of 2017 Karpenko competed three times in the qualification for Grand Prix jumping , but never survived. With the Kazakh team he finished 13th in the team competition in Wisła . In the 2017/18 World Cup season he only competed in Ruka in November 2017 . In the individual competition he failed as 71st in the qualification and in the team competition he was twelfth and last. For the rest of the season he competed in Continental Cup and FIS Cup competitions. But he could not reach the points in any jumping.

Personal

As a member of the Kazakh national team, Karpenko had a contract with the "Directorate of Personnel of National Teams" ( Дирекцию штатных национальных команд ). According to a 2010 estimate, a Karpenko-level athlete should receive a monthly salary of $ 800 plus food, paid training camps, and sports equipment.

Andrei Werweikin , President of the Kazakh Ski Jumping Association, described Karpenko as a "role model for hard work and discipline". He could imagine Karpenko as a good young trainer.

Karpenko named the Great Olympic Hill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen as his favorite ski jumping hill , as it resembles the inrun track of his home hill in Almaty in terms of acceleration and ceramics .

Nikolai Karpenko's younger brother Anatoli is also a former ski jumper.

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2006/07	71.	12
2007/08	58.	18th
2008/09	66.	10
2009/10	82.	02

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
2006/07	36.	419.2
2007/08	59.	195.9
2008/09	53.	197.4
2009/10	46.	294.9
2011/12	59.	173.3

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2008	21st	93
2010	68.	12

Remarks

¹The FIS database gives Almaty (at that time Alma-Ata ) as the place of birth. According to Kazakh media, Karpenko was born in Ridder (then Leninogorsk ).

²Only the results of the Kazakh championships in ski jumping in 2009 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen are known. Since Karpenko mentioned a jump at the Kazakh championships in Almaty in an interview during the Winter Asian Games 2011, it can be assumed that the Kazakh championships in 2009 were not the only ones and that Karpenko won other medals.

Web links

Commons : Nikolai Karpenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Nikolai Karpenko in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Nikolai Karpenko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Nikolai Karpenko in the berkutschi.com database

Individual evidence

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11. ↑ Николай Карпенко: "В свободное время играли в бильярд с Королевым". (No longer available online.) Gazeta.kz, February 24, 2010, archived from the original on January 14, 2014 ; Retrieved January 5, 2014 (Russian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ ^{a b} Julia Milenkaya: Бронзовый прыжок Николая Карпенко. prosportkz.kz, February 1, 2011, accessed January 9, 2014 (Russian). 
13. ↑ Julia Milenkaya: На трамплинах будет жарко. prosportkz.kz, August 16, 2011, accessed January 13, 2014 (Russian). 
14. ↑ Sergei Railean: Рекорды, удачи и переживания сезона-2012. (No longer available online.) Continent.kz, December 27, 2012, archived from the original on January 15, 2014 ; Retrieved January 13, 2014 (Russian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ После аварии Левкин настроен оптимистично. vesti.kz, December 6, 2012, accessed January 5, 2014 (Russian). 
16. ↑ Sergei Filonenko: Андрей Вервейкин: "Надо понять, что много упущено". sports.kz, March 29, 2013, accessed January 5, 2014 (Russian). 
17. ↑ Kazakhstan names A-squad. Berkutschi skijumping, May 21, 2013, accessed January 5, 2014 . 
18. ↑ Madi Karamendin: “Пролетели” мимо тридцатки. caravan.kz, September 25, 2013, accessed January 5, 2014 (Russian). 
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20. ↑ Olga Sapogova: Прыжки на лыжах с трамплина: допрыгнули до «бронзы». (No longer available online.) Megapolis.kz, January 31, 2011, archived from the original on February 4, 2013 ; Retrieved January 5, 2014 (Russian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.