Oleksandr Proswirnin

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Olexander Proswirnin Nordic combination
nation Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union
birthday August 24, 1964
place of birth Vorokhta ,  Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union
Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union 
size 173 cm
Weight 68 kg
date of death August 15, 2010
Place of death Kiev ,  Ukraine
Career
society Dynamo Vorokhta
End of career 1985
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
bronze 1984 Engelberg 3 × 10 km team (NH)
Placements in the World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 29, 1983
 Overall World Cup 5. ( 1983/84 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 singles 0 1 0
 

Oleksandr Proswirnin ( Ukrainian Олександр Просвірнін , scientific. Transliteration Oleksandr Prosvirnin , partly Alexander Proswyrnyn , Ukrainian Олександр Просвирнин , in the Soviet Union Alexander Borisovich Proswirnin , Russian Александр Борисович Просвирнин * 24. August 1964 in Vorokhta ; † 15. August 2010 in Kiev ) was a Soviet Nordic combiner . In the 1983/84 season he finished fourth in the overall World Cup ranking and won the bronze medal with the Soviet team at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1984 .

Career

On December 29, 1983 Proswirnin made her debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup at the World Cup in Oberwiesenthal and took second place behind Andreas Langer from the GDR at his first start . In the same season he took part for the Soviet Union in the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo and finished sixth in the only Nordic combined competition. He also took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1984 , which were held because the team competition in the Nordic Combined was not an Olympic competition. In the team competition, Proswirnin won the bronze medal behind Norway and Finland together with Alexander Majorow and Ildar Garifullin . At the end of the 1983/84 season he finished fourth in the overall standings with the German Thomas Müller with 72 World Cup points.

In the following season he took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1985 and finished 14th in the individual competition. In the team competition, he finished fourth with Allar Levandi and Alexander Majorow behind the teams from Germany, Norway and Finland.

family

His brother Dmytro was also a Nordic combined and ski jumper and took part in the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer .

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personal data
SURNAME Proswirnin, Olexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Proswyrnyn, Olexander (alternative transcription); Prosvirnin, Alexander (English); Просвирнин, Олександр (Ukrainian); Просви́рнин, Алекса́ндр Борисович (Russian); Proswirnin, Alexander Borissowitsch;
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet nordic combiner
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Vorokhta , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 2010
Place of death Kiev , Ukraine