Oleksandr Kolos
Oleksandr Kolos 
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 Ukraine
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| birthday | 5th July 1986 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth |
 Soviet Union
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| Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup | 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| European Cup / IBU Cup victories | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Debut in the World Cup | 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup victories | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: October 7, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oleksandr Kolos ( Ukrainian Олександр Колос ; born July 5, 1986 ) is a Ukrainian biathlete .
Oleksandr Kolos played his first international championship at the 2003 Junior World Championships in Kościelisko , where he was 35th of the individual, 45th in the sprint and 27th in the pursuit race. A year later came 44th place in the sprint, 29th place in the pursuit and eighth place in the relay race in Haute-Maurienne . Shortly afterwards he also competed in the junior races of the 2004 European Biathlon Championships in Minsk . Kolos finished 18th, 36th in the sprint and 25th in the pursuit. With Igor Jaschenko, Serhij Sednjew and Oleh Bereschnyj he also won the silver medal in the relay race. This was followed by participation in the 2004 Summer Biathlon World Championships , the first major event for seniors. In Osrblie he reached the 33rd place in the sprint and 31st place in the pursuit race. The Ukrainian also took part in the Junior World Championships in 2005, this time in Kontiolahti , and finished sixth in the individual and fourth in the pursuit, having previously won the bronze medal in the sprint. With the junior relay he was seventh, with the relay in the youth race he won the bronze medal. At the Junior European Championship in Novosibirsk , Kolos only achieved single-digit placements. The Ukrainian came in sixth in the singles, eighth in the sprint and seventh in the pursuit. With Jaschenko, Yevhen Horbechov and Bereschnyj he won bronze as the final runner in the relay race. In 2006 he started for the fourth time at the Junior World Championships. In Presque Isle he came in 28th place in the individual, was both in the sprint and in the pursuit 30th and tenth with the relay. Later in the year he also took part in the 2006 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Ufa , but this time in the junior races. He finished 17th in the cross-country sprint and was tenth in the sprint and seventh in the pursuit on roller skis .
In 2007 Kolos took part again in all three major junior events in which he had already started. At the JWM in Martell the Ukrainian was 51st of the individual and fifth in the relay competition. In Bansko , he participated in the 2007 European Biathlon Championships with 20th place in the individual, 14th in the sprint and five in the pursuit. In the season he won bronze with Vitaly Koschuschko, Vitaly Kiltschyzkyj and Artem Pryma again as the final runner. In the summer, the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2007 followed in Otepää , where Kolos was eleventh in the sprint and sixth in the mass start and won the silver medal in the mixed relay with the Semerenko sisters Walentyna and Wiktorija and Andrij Bohaj .
At the start of the 2007/08 season , Kolos made his debut among the men in the European Biathlon Cup , the second highest racing series in international biathlon. He contested his first race, a sprint, in Geilo and immediately finished eighth. It is also his best placement to date in the Biathlon Cup and the subsequent racing series, the IBU Cup . In 2008 the Ukrainian also made his debut in the Biathlon World Cup in Antholz , where he finished 70th in a sprint. In the following season he took part in a World Cup race in Ruhpolding for a second time and achieved his best World Cup result with 64th place in the sprint. It was only in Duszniki-Zdrój that he took part in a major international event as part of the 2010 Summer Biathlon World Championships . In the sprint as well as in the pursuit he finished 18th.
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 |
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| Starts | 4th | 1 | 5 | |||
| Status: after the 2010/2011 season | ||||||
Web links
- Oleksandr Kolos in the database of the IBU (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kolos, Oleksandr |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Колос, Олександр (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th July 1986 |