Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Kruglow

Nikolai Kruglow 2010 in Antholz

Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Kruglow ( Russian: Николай Николаевич Круглов ; born April 8, 1981 in Gorki ) is a former Russian biathlete and son of the successful biathlete Nikolai Kruglow .

Nikolai Kruglow has achieved all of his previous successes with Russian relays: he is two-time world champion at the mixed relay world championships, and he also won silver once each at the 2006 Winter Olympics and the 2005 Biathlon World Championships . In 2007 he became world champion with the Russian men's relay. In 2008 Kruglow was able to win gold again with the Russian men's relay and also secure bronze with the Russian mixed relay.

Kruglow achieved three victories in the biathlon world cup. In the 2004/05 season he won his first World Cup race with the pursuit in Pokljuka. The Russian achieved two more victories in the 2006/07 season when he won the sprint and the subsequent pursuit in Oberhof. Nikolai Kruglow took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He started in the singles and finished 11th.

After the end of the 2009/2010 season , he announced his resignation, but left open a later active return to biathlon.

successes

• Winter Olympics:
  • 2006: 1 × silver (relay)

• World Championships:
  • 2005: 1 × gold (mixed relay), 1 × silver (relay)
  • 2006: 1 × gold (mixed relay)
  • 2007: 1 × gold (relay)
  • 2008: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × bronze (mixed relay)

• World Cup victories:
  • 3 (as of January 6, 2007)

• Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place		1	2		7th	10
2nd place		3	4th	2	13	22nd
3rd place	1		1		3	5
Top 10	5	20th	20th	8th	29	82
Scoring	16	51	39	24	30th	160
Starts	24	69	50	24	32	199

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overview of the international resignations in biathlon. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 2, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    

Web links

• Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Kruglow in the IBU database (English)
• Profile at the Russian Biathlon Federation (Russian)
• Profile on biathlon.com (English)
• Portrait on biathlon2b.com