Ruslan Leonidowitsch Grizan

Ruslan Leonidowitsch Grizan ( Russian Руслан Леонидович Грицан ; born December 7, 1978 in Moscow ) is a Russian ski orienteer and mountain bike orienteer .

career

Grizan became Junior World Champion in 1998 on the short and long distance in orienteering skiing. At the Elite World Championships between 2002 and 2005, Grizan won four gold medals, including three with the Russian relay. In 2004 he finished fourth in all three individual competitions, while at the World Ski Orienteering Championships in Levi, Finland, at the same time as his compatriot Andrei Gruzdew, he won gold in the middle distance the following year .

In mountain bike orienteering, Grizan made his debut in 2004 at the second world championships in this discipline. In 2005 he was already two-time world champion. Until 2012 he won at least one medal at all world championships. He was world champion seven times, including twice with the relay.

Placements

Ski orienteering

World Championships: (4 × gold)

• 2002 : 19th place sprint, 1st place relay
• 2004 : 4th place sprint, 4th place medium, 4th place long, 1st place sprint
• 2005 : 1st place medium, 4th place long, 1st place relay
• 2007 : 9th place medium, 7th place long

World Cup:

• 1999 : 37th place
• 2000 : 23rd place
• 2001 : 55th place
• 2003 : 10th place
• 2006 : 19th place

Mountain bike orienteering

World Championships: (7 × gold, 6 × silver, 4 × bronze)

• 2004 : 10th place medium, 32nd place long, 6th place relay
• 2005 : 1st place medium, 1st place long, 4th place relay
• 2006 : 3rd place medium, 2nd place long, 2nd place relay
• 2007 : 4th place sprint, 57th place medium, 1st place long, 4th place relay
• 2008 : 4th place sprint, 5th place medium, 1st place long, 2nd place relay
• 2009 : 3rd place sprint, 10th place medium, 2nd place long, 1st place relay
• 2010 : 20th place sprint, 4th place medium, 10th place long, 1st place relay
• 2011 : 11th place sprint, 2nd place medium, 3rd place long, 4th place relay
• 2012 : 3rd place sprint, 5th place medium, 1st place long, 2nd place relay
• 2013 : 4th place sprint, 4th place medium, 5th place long, 4th place relay

European Championships: (1 × gold, 4 × silver, 3 × bronze)

• 2007 : 11th place sprint (unofficial) , 8th place medium, 9th place long, 5th place relay
• 2008 : 3rd place sprint, 7th place medium, 3rd place long, 4th place relay
• 2009 : 1st place sprint, 6th place medium, 17th place long, 3rd place relay
• 2011 : 16th place sprint, 7th place medium, 8th place long, 2nd place relay
• 2013 : 2nd place sprint, 6th place medium, 9th place long, 2nd place relay, 2nd place mixed

World Cup: (1 × silver)

• 2010 : 5th place
• 2011 : 6th place
• 2012 : 2nd place
• 2013 : 6th place

Web links

• Ruslan Gritsan 6prog.org
• Profile Azimut O (Russian)