Sergei Alexandrovich Balandin

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Sergei Balandin
Full name	Sergei Alexandrovich Balandin
Association	Russia
birthday	July 11, 1982
place of birth	Murmansk ,  Soviet Union
Career
Admission to the national team	2002
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2005
Debut in the World Cup	2009
status	active
Medal table
EM medals 2 × 0 × 1 × SWM medals 2 × 0 × 1 × SEM medals 3 × 0 × 0 ×
European biathlon championships gold 2005 Novosibirsk Season gold 2008 Nové Město na Moravě Season bronze 2008 Nové Město na Moravě singles  Summer biathlon world championships silver 2004 Osrblie persecution silver 2004 Osrblie Season gold 2006 Ufa Sprint Cross gold 2006 Ufa Pursuit Cross gold 2006 Ufa Mixed cross  Summer biathlon European championships gold 2011 Martell Sprint Cross gold 2011 Martell Pursuit Cross gold 2011 Martell Mixed cross
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	94th ( 2008/09 )
last change: September 19, 2011

Sergei Alexandrowitsch Balandin ( Russian Сергей Александрович Баландин ; born  July 11, 1982 in Murmansk ) is a Russian biathlete .

Sergei Balandin made his international debut at the 2002 Junior World Championships in Kontiolahti , where his best result was 12th place in the sprint. A year later, his best results in Forni Avoltri were 19th in singles and pursuit. Balandin was initially more successful in the summer biathlon . Here he won silver medals in pursuit and with the relay at the 2004 World Championships in Osrblie . The first major success in biathlon was winning the gold medal with the relay team around Pavel Rostovzew , Dmitri Yaroshenko and Alexei Boltenko at the European Championships in Novosibirsk . He also finished fifth in the sprint and seventh in pursuit and individual.

For the 2005/06 season Balandin made his debut in the European Biathlon Cup . In his first race, an individual in Obertilliach , he was seventh and immediately placed in the top ten. In 2006 he started again at the world championships in summer biathlon in Ufa and won the sprint, pursuit and mixed relay titles in cross-country competitions. At the Biathlon European Championships 2007 in Bansko, 12th place was individual best placement. The Russian achieved his best result at European level in 2008 at the European Championships in Nové Město , when he won the bronze medal in the individual behind Tomasz Sikora and Michal Šlesingr . With the relay of Russia, he won gold medals in 2005 and 2008.

At the end of the 2008/2009 season, Balandin was used in Khanty-Mansiysk for the first time in the Biathlon World Cup. In the sprint he was 54th, in the pursuit race that followed Sergei Balandin finished 30th and came in the points for the first time. He finished the season in 94th place in the overall World Cup standings. After being unable to achieve success at the highest level for some time, Balandin won all three possible titles in sprint, pursuit and with Olga Prokopjewa , Natalja Solowjowa and Alexander Katschanowski as the final runner in the mixed relay at the 2011 Summer Biathlon European Championships in Martell .

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
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring			1			1
Starts		1	1			2
Status: after the 2009/2010 season

Web links

• Sergei Alexandrowitsch Balandin in the IBU database (English)
• Баландин Сергей Александрович , infosport.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Баландин Сергей Александрович , base.biathlonrus.com (Russian)