Ruslan Albertovich Sakharov

Ruslan Sakharov
Full name	Ruslan Albertowitsch Sakharov Russian Руслан Альбертович Захаров
nation	Russia
birthday	March 24, 1987
place of birth	Gorky ,  Russian SFSR
size	173 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
discipline	Short track speed skating
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2014 Sochi 5000 m relay  Individual distance world championships bronze 2020 Salt Lake City Team tracking  European Short Track Championships silver 2011 Heerenveen 3000 m bronze 2011 Heerenveen 1500 m gold 2013 Malmö Season
Placements in the Short Track World Cup Debut in the World Cup October 17, 2008
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  1000 m 0 0 1  Season 0 1 0
Placements in the speed skating world cup Debut in the World Cup November 11, 2018 World Cup victories 1 Total toilet mass start 3. ( 2018/19 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Season 1 0 2
last change: February 19, 2020

Ruslan Albertowitsch Sakharov ( Russian Руслан Альбертович Захаров ; born March 24, 1987 in Gorki ) is a Russian short tracker and Olympic champion .

Career

Sakharov celebrated his first major international success with eighth place over 1500 m at the 2008 Short Track World Championships . At the European Short Track Championships in Turin in 2009 , he won the 3000 m final. It wasn't enough for an all-around medal. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he started over 500, 1000 and 1500 m, but was eliminated in all three competitions in the heats and ended up in the rankings beyond the top 20.

Sakharov won his first international medals at the 2011 European Short Track Championships in Heerenveen . In addition to silver in the superfinal over 3000 m, he won bronze over the 1500 meter distance. In the overall all- around ranking, Sakharov missed bronze after Sjinkie Knegt got five extra points in the 3000 m final and thus pushed himself up to bronze.

In the 2012/13 season he celebrated his first podium finish in the World Cup with the 5000 meter relay in October in Calgary in third place. At the 2013 European Short Track Championships in Malmö , he won relay gold as a member of the Russian team.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi 2014 , he won a gold medal with the Russian relay over 5000 m. He did not compete in the individual disciplines.

Web links

Commons : Ruslan Zakharov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Profile of Ruslan Albertowitsch Sakharov on Speedskatingnews
• Ruslan Albertowitsch Sakharov in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shorttrack European Championships 2011 ( English , PDF) In: ISU . Retrieved August 27, 2014.