Sergei Gennadievich Alifirenko

Sergei Alifirenko medal table
Sport shooting
Russia
Olympic games
gold	Sydney 2000	Rapid fire pistol 25 m
bronze	Athens 2004	Rapid fire pistol 25 m
World championships
silver	Barcelona 1998	Large caliber pistol (M)
bronze	Zagreb 2006	Rapid fire pistol 25 m
silver	Zagreb 2006	Rapid fire pistol 25 m (M)
gold	Zagreb 2006	Large caliber pistol (M)
silver	Zagreb 2006	Standard pistol (M)

Sergei Gennadijewitsch Alifirenko ( Russian Серге́й Геннадиевич Алифиренко ; born January 21, 1959 in Vanadzor , Armenian SSR ) is a former Russian sports shooter .

successes

Sergei Alifirenko, who started for CSKA Moscow , took part in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and 2004 in Athens . In 2000 he qualified with 587 points for the final, in which he achieved the best value with 100.6 points. A total of 687.6 points were enough for first place, so that Alifirenko received the gold medal and was Olympic champion ahead of Michel Ansermet and Iulian Raicea . Four years later he moved into the final again, this time with 592 points. With 692.3 points, Alifirenko finished the final round in third place behind Ralf Schumann and Sergei Polyakov and thus received bronze. Alifirenko won the silver medal in the team competition at the World Championships in Barcelona in 1998 with the large- bore pistol. In Zagreb he became world champion in this discipline in 2006, and he also won silver in team competitions with the rapid fire pistol and the standard pistol. In the individual, he secured bronze with the rapid fire pistol.

Shortly before the 2008 Olympic Games , Alifirenko canceled his participation in April of that year due to an eye disease. In October he was banned from doping for two years after testing positive for dexamethasone , which he used to treat his eye condition. The Russian Rifle Association then offered Alifirenko a coaching position with the national team. Alifirenko is married and has three children.

Web links

• Sergei Alifirenko in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)
• Sergei Alifirenko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alifirenko banned for doping. In: espn.com. ESPN , December 10, 2008, accessed October 7, 2019 .