Nikolai Chebotko
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Nikolai Chebotko (2012) |
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Full name | Nikolai Sergeyevich Chebotko | ||||||||||||||||||
nation | Kazakhstan | ||||||||||||||||||
birthday | October 25, 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Shchuchinsk , Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||
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job | Sports soldier | ||||||||||||||||||
society | CSKA Almaty | ||||||||||||||||||
National squad | since 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||
status | active | ||||||||||||||||||
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last change: December 30, 2015 |
Nikolai Sergejewitsch Chebotko ( Georgian: Николай Сергеевич Чеботько , born October 25, 1982 in Shchuchinsk ) is a Kazakh cross-country skier .
Career
First race as a junior
Tcherbotko made his first international appearance in 2000 at the Junior World Championships in Štrbské Pleso . His best result there was the 25th place over 30 kilometers classic. In the sprint he was 38th and over 15 kilometers in free technique it was only 66th place. A year later he was able to slightly improve these results with 18th place over 10 kilometers classic at the 2001 in Karpacz when he was 18th over 10 kilometers in classic technique, 41st over 30 kilometers in three free technique and 45th in sprint. At the junior world championships in 2002 in Schonach in the Black Forest , he then achieved two top ten placements. Over 30 kilometers classic (mass start) he took a good fifth place and also over 10 kilometers freestyle he knew how to convince with 10th place.
World Cup and Olympics
In the same year, Chebotko also started in the cross-country world cup for the first time , but clearly missed the finals as 69th in the qualification of the sprint in Cogne . The good placements at the Junior World Championships enabled him to start at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . Over the distance of 30 kilometers of freestyle, Chebotko surprised with 22nd place out of 68 starters. In the pursuit competition he was 39th and with the season 14th In the sprint, he just missed the finals as 33rd. At the 2003 Winter Universiade in Tarvisio , Chebotko celebrated his first major international success by winning the sprint competition. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2003 in Val di Fiemme he failed again as 34th just narrowly to qualify in the sprint competition. In the 10-kilometer skiathlon he was 45th as well as over 30 kilometers in the classic technique. Over 50 kilometers he was 58th in free technique and 13th in the Kazakh cross-country relay.
In the 2003/04 season, Chebotko won World Cup points for the first time. Over the distance of 30 kilometers freestyle he finished 22nd in Toblach . With the Kazakh team in La Clusaz he achieved a respectable success with fourth place. In the sprint competitions in Stockholm and Trondheim , he made it into the top twenty athletes of a World Cup competition for the first time with 17th and 14th place. He was able to confirm these results in the years that followed. In Reit im Winkl , he just missed his first top ten finish with 11th place in the sprint in February 2005. At the Universiade in Innsbruck / Seefeld he won the silver medal 10 kilometers freestyle. He finished fourth over 30 kilometers in the classic class and eighth in the sprint after finishing second in qualifying. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf in 2005 , he achieved third place in the qualification for the first time at a major international event in the finals in the sprint competition. In the B-final he took fourth place and thus eighth place in the final bill. In the team sprint, he reached seventh place with Yevgeny Koschewoi . In addition, there was 35th place over 15 kilometers in free technique and 40th place in skiathlon. He finished tenth in the Kazakh cross-country relay. In the 2005/06 season, Tschebotko made it into the top ten for the first time in the World Cup with seventh place in the sprint in Oberstdorf. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , however, he missed qualifying for the sprint finals. In the team sprint he finished sixth together with Koschewoi. In 2007 he won the sprint competition again at the Universiade in Pragelato . At the 2007 Asian Winter Games , he won gold with the relay. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo in 2007 , he reached the finals and took 19th place in the sprint. In the team sprint he competed again with Koschewoi. The duo took eighth place. Over 15 kilometers in free technique he was 31st and seventh with the relay. In the 2007/08 season , Chebotko started on the Tour des Ski . He managed to reach the final run in the sprint in Asiago . There he only had to admit defeat to Petter Northug and achieved his first podium placement in a competition organized as part of the World Cup. Chebotko was also able to draw attention to himself on the Tour des Ski . With two third places on the fourth and sixth stage over 15 kilometers and 20 kilometers in the classic way, he created the basis for 18th place overall.
After the following World Cups were rather mixed, Chebotko started at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec . After a disappointing 59th place over 15 km, he reached rank 23 in the double pursuit. He reached 16th place in the sprint, before finishing seventh in the team sprint shortly afterwards. At the end of the season he finished tenth.
Performance slump in 2009/10
After struggling with lower places at the beginning of the 2009/10 World Cup season , he was able to achieve a top 20 position in the team sprint with 17th place in Düsseldorf . In Rogla he finished ninth again in the top ten in the sprint. In the Tour de Ski 2009/2010 , Chebotko could not repeat the achievements of the previous year and ended up in 27th place. His best individual placement was a 13th place in Oberhof . At the last World Cup before the Olympic Games in Canmore, Chebotko narrowly missed the podium with fifth place. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Chebotko reached after a 38th place in the individual, 13th place in the sprint. In the team sprint he finished fifth with his partner Alexei Poltoranin before finishing eleventh in the relay. Chebotko did not start at the season finale in Stockholm.
Return to the top of the world
Chebotko started the 2010/11 season at the FIS race in Muonio , where he only narrowly passed the podium in the sprint in fourth. He then started again in the World Cup in Gällivare and was ninth in both singles and relay on the 19th. After he was rarely able to finish in the points, he ended his World Cup season before the start of the Tour de Ski 2010/2011 . He finished his season in his home country at the Winter Asian Games 2011 , where he won bronze in the 15 km freestyle, silver in the sprint and over 10 km classic, as well as gold twice in the team sprint and with the relay. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season in Sjusjøen , he again only achieved 53rd place in the individual and 14th place in the relay.
In Kuusamo he was able to finish eighth in the sprint and again make it into the top ten. However, it remained his only top 10 finish of the season. At the Tour de Ski 2011/2012 , he ended up on 45th place. Shortly afterwards he won silver in the sprint at the Kazakh Championships in 2012 . Also in the following season he could not fight his way back to the top of the world. After a second place at the FIS race in Muonio at the beginning of the season, he again did not get past 50th place at the World Cup opener in Gällivare. Chebotko was a surprise on December 7, 2012 when he won his first team sprint world cup in Quebec, Canada . After other mixed World Cups, he finished sixth in Sochi in February and fifth in Davos .
At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme , Chebotko won the bronze medal in the team sprint after finishing 14th in the sprint. In the singles he was 63rd and in the relay he came in 13th. At the following World Cup in Lahti , Finland , he narrowly missed the podium in fourth. In the remaining World Cups of the 2012/13 season he also achieved placements in the top twenty without exception. At the end of the season he finished 33rd in the overall standings and tenth in the sprint standings. He repeated his ranking from the 2008/09 season in the overall standings and achieved the best ranking of his career in the sprint.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Russia , he was 25th in the sprint, 33rd in classic technique over 15 kilometers and eighth in the team sprint. At the 2015 World Championships in Falun , Sweden , he was 29th in sprint, 55th in free technique over 15 kilometers, 18th in team sprint and 13th in the relay race with the Kazakh team. Four years later, at the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld in Tyrol, it was only 66th place in the sprint and one place in the team sprint.
successes
World Cup victories in the team
No. | date | place | discipline |
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1. | December 7, 2012 | Quebec | Team sprint freestyle 1 |
Victories in Continental Cup races
No. | date | place | discipline | series |
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1. | December 16, 2005 | Sotkamo | 15 km freestyle | Scandinavian Cup |
Placements in the World Cup
World Cup Statistics
The table shows the placements achieved in detail.
- 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
- Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
- Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
- Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
- Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.
placement | Distance races a | Skiathlon pursuit |
sprint | Stage race b |
total | Team c | |||||
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≤ 5 km | ≤ 10 km | ≤ 15 km | ≤ 30 km | > 30 km | sprint | Season | |||||
1st place | 1 | ||||||||||
2nd place | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
3rd place | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
Top 10 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 14th | |||||
Scoring | 3 | 4th | 17th | 4th | 8th | 38 | 7th | 81 | 11 | 26th | |
Starts | 8th | 9 | 57 | 16 | 1 | 27 | 70 | 9 | 197 | 11 | 26th |
Status: end of season 2018/19 |
World Cup overall placements
season | total | distance | sprint | |||
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Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | |
2003/04 | 71 | 59. | 34 | 56. | 37 | 39. |
2004/05 | 53 | 71. | 16 | 64. | 37 | 34. |
2005/06 | 56 | 76. | 11 | 97. | 45 | 35. |
2006/07 | 19th | 111. | 13 | 79. | 6th | 75. |
2007/08 | 94 | 63. | 1 | 92. | 93 | 28. |
2008/09 | 243 | 33. | 122 | 33. | 69 | 38. |
2009/10 | 167 | 47. | 51 | 56. | 100 | 23. |
2010/11 | 149 | 47. | 94 | 35. | 15th | 77. |
2011/12 | 129 | 58. | 34 | 65. | 67 | 33. |
2012/13 | 262 | 33. | 49 | 53. | 183 | 10. |
2013/14 | 80 | 68. | 16 | 82. | 40 | 50. |
2014/15 | 15th | 125. | - | - | 15th | 69. |
Web links
- Nikolai Chebotko in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Nikolai Tschebotko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Chebotko, Nikolai |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chebotko, Nikolai Sergeyevich (full name); Сергеевич Чеботько, Николай (Kazakh) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kazakh cross-country skier |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1982 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Shchuchinsk , Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |