Sergei Nikolaevich Klyachin

Sergei Klyachin
Full name	Sergei Nikolayevich Klyachin Сергей Николаевич Клячин
Association	Russia
birthday	20th November 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Tchaikovsky ,  Soviet Union
Career
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2010
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	2 (1 individual race)
Debut in the World Cup	2012
status	active
Medal table
EM medals 0 × 0 × 2 × JSW medals 0 × 0 × 1 × RM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Biathlon EM bronze 2012 Osrblie sprint bronze 2012 Osrblie Season Summer biathlon JWM bronze 2007 Otepää persecution  Russian championships gold 2009 Uwat Season
World Cup balance
last change: June 29, 2013

Sergei Nikolajewitsch Kljatschin ( Russian Сергей Николаевич Клячин ; born November 20, 1986 in Tchaikovsky , Perm Region , Soviet Union ) is a Russian biathlete .

Sergei Kljatschin was initially only used sporadically internationally. At the Winter Universiade 2007 in Cesana San Sicario he came in 28th place in the sprint, did not finish the pursuit race and was 13th in the mass start race. Later in the year he also took part in the junior competitions of the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Otepää . In the sprint he came in eighth place and was able to improve in the pursuit race based on it up to the bronze medal rank behind Krassimir Anew and Dmitri Blinow . The greatest success celebrated Klyachkin at the Russian Championships 2009 in Uwat . With Vitaly Noritsyn , Maxim Ichsanow and Artyom Ushakov he won the relay race.

Klyachin had his international breakthrough in the 2011/12 season . The Russian made regular appearances in the IBU Cup and immediately won points in Idre as 20th in a sprint. In his second race, an individual in Ridnaun , he reached the podium for the first time in third place, in Obertilliach he won a mixed relay race alongside Anastassija Sagoruiko , Yekaterina Schumilowa and Viktor Wassiljew . At the 2012 European Championships in Osrblie , Kljatschin just missed a medal in fourth place in the individual, winning the bronze medal in the sprint behind Alexei Wolkow and Artem Pryma as well as with Nikolai Jakuschow , Alexander Schirny and Alexei Wolkow in the relay race. In the pursuit race, he fell back to ninth place. At the end of the season in Altenberg he won his first individual race in the IBU Cup with a single. Towards the end of the 2011/12 season Klyachin made his debut in Khanty-Mansiysk in the biathlon World Cup and missed the points in both races as 48th of the sprint and 46th of the pursuit. At the end of the next season , he was back in Sochi in the World Cup, where he scored his first World Cup points as the 38th of an individual.

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				4th	5
Starts	1	2	1		4th	8th
Status: after the 2012/2013 season

Web links

• Sergei Nikolajewitsch Kljatschin in the IBU database (English)
• Profile at rusbiathlon.ru (Russian)
• Complete list of results on ibu-info.ru (Russian / English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sergei Kljatschin on biathlonrus.com (Russian)