Sergei Vladimirovich Chepikov

Sergei Chepikov
Full name	Sergei Wladimirowitsch Tschepikow Russian Сергей Владимирович Чепиков
nation	Soviet Union Russia
birthday	January 30, 1967
place of birth	Choir , Russian SFSR ,  Soviet Union
size	182 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
discipline	Biathlon cross-country skiing
society	Dinamo Yekaterinburg Dinamo Novosibirsk
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 3 × 1 ×
Participant in biathlon  winter Olympics bronze 1988 Calgary sprint gold 1988 Calgary Season silver 1992 Albertville Season gold 1994 Lillehammer sprint silver 1994 Lillehammer Season silver 2006 Turin Season
Placements in the biathlon world cup Overall World Cup 1.  ( 1989/1990 ,  1990/1991 ) World Cup victories 9 (5 individual wins)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 2 3 1  sprint 3 3 2  persecution 0 2 2  Season 4th 11 4th
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup Overall World Cup 19. (1995/1996)

Sergei Wladimirowitsch Tschepikow ( Russian Сергей Владимирович Чепиков , scientific transliteration Sergej Vladimirovič Čepikov ; born January 30, 1967 in Chor , Khabarovsk region ) is a former Russian biathlete and cross-country skier .

Career

Successful biathlete

Sergei Tschepikow won his first two Olympic medals in Calgary in 1988 , and by 1994 he had a total of five medals, including 2 gold medals.

In the 1989/90 and 1990/91 seasons he was the first Soviet athlete to win the overall World Cup.

Change to cross-country skiing

Because his shooting results left a lot to be desired, the Russian switched to the cross-country skiers after these successes, but could not prevail there. His best result was a 9th place in the Nagano Olympic Hunting Race ( 1998 ). After the fourth Olympic Games for him, the now 31-year-old ended his sporting career, after which he made a movie, among other things.

Return to biathlon

At the beginning of the 2001/02 season , Tschepikow celebrated a sensational comeback in biathlon as a 34-year-old. The Russian made a strong start to the season, after two top 10 placements at the second World Cup in Pokljuka, he just missed the podium a week later with two fourth places in the singles and sprint of Osrblie. The 2002 Winter Olympics were also successful for Tschepikow. As in his last Olympic Games in Biathlon in 1994, he finished 8th in singles. He was also used in the Russian relay, which, however, missed an Olympic medal in fourth place.

On January 24, 2004 Tschepikow achieved his fifth World Cup victory in the sprint race in Antholz over ten years after his last World Cup victory, the Olympic victory in Lillehammer.

At the Biathlon World Championships in 2005 in Hochfilzen , he won his seventh World Championship medal with the silver medal in pursuit. He was also successful in the relay and the mixed relay, which was held for the first time, and won two more silver medals. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , he again won a silver medal with the Russian relay.

Tschepikow won a total of five World Cup victories. At 39, he was one of the oldest active athletes in the biathlon world cup in his last World Cup season . After the 2006/07 season, he finally ended his career. He is married to Jelena Melnikowa .

successes

Winter Olympics:

• 1988: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × bronze (sprint)
• 1992: 1 × silver (relay)
• 1994: 1 × gold (sprint), 1 × silver (relay)
• 2006: 1 × silver (relay)

World Championships:

• 1989: 1 × gold (team), 1 × silver (individual)
• 1991: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × bronze (team)
• 1993: 2 × silver (relay, team)
• 2003: 1 × silver (relay)
• 2005: 3 × silver (pursuit, relay, mixed relay)
• 2006: 1 × gold (mixed relay)

Overall World Cup:

• 2 × winners (1989/90, 1990/91)

World Cup victories:

• 5 (as of January 24, 2004)

Results in the biathlon world cup

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	2	3			4th	9
2nd place	3	3	2		11	19th
3rd place	1	2	2		4th	9
Top 10	23	28	11	9	25th	96
Scoring	30th	46	25th	15th	25th	141
Starts	35	66	33	15th	25th	174
Status: data may be incomplete

Web links

• Sergei Wladimirowitsch Tschepikow in the IBU database (English)
• Sergei Wladimirowitsch Tschepikow in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Sergei Wladimirowitsch Tschepikow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Result sprint in Antholz (2003/04 season)