Wassil Pankou

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BelarusBelarus  Wassil Pankou Ice hockey player
Date of birth 15th August 1968
place of birth Minsk , Belarusian SSR
size 184 cm
Weight 85 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 1993 HK Dinamo Minsk
1993-1995 Tiwali Minsk
1995-1997 HK Lada Tolyatti
1997-2000 HC Slovan Bratislava
2000-2002 Augsburg panther
2002-2003 HK Junost Minsk

Vasil Pankou ( Belarusian Васіль Мікалаевіч Панкоў , Russian Василий Николаевич Панков , Vasily Nikolayevich Pankow * 15. August 1968 in Minsk , Byelorussian SSR ) is a former Belarusian ice hockey player . The striker was a Belarusian national player . His brother Dsmitry is also a hockey player.

Career

He began his career at Dynamo Minsk , with whom he was promoted to the Vysschaya League in 1988. In 1993, 1994 and 1995 he became Belarusian champion with Minsk . He was also Belarusian ice hockey player of the year in 1995 . From 1995 to 1997 he was under contract in Russia with HK Lada Tolyatti , with whom he won the IHL championship in 1996. Then Pankou played for the Slovak club HC Slovan Bratislava , with whom he became Slovak champions in 1998 and 2000 . From 2000 to 2002 he was active with the Augsburger Panther in the DEL . After a season at HK Junost Minsk , he ended his career in 2003.

With the Belarusian national team, Pankou made it to the B -World Cup in 1995 and the A-World Cup in 1997 . In 1998 he took part in the Olympic Games in Nagano , where Belarus reached the quarter-finals.

Doping allegation 2002

Four years later, at the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , the Belarusians finished fourth. After the game for third place against Russia, however, Pankou was tested positive for nandrolone during the doping control and was excluded from the games. He was also suspended by the Augsburg panthers until the B sample was opened. A month later, Pankou was acquitted of doping charges and the national team's doctor, Losizki, was banned instead.

As a trainer

Pankou has been working as an ice hockey coach since 2005. First he worked in the youth division at HK Dinamo Minsk , before he was head coach of Schinnik Babrujsk's Extraliga team from 2008 , while he was also assistant coach for the Belarusian U20 team . From 2010 he was the head coach of HK Pantera Minsk , a women's ice hockey club that participated in the Elite Women's Hockey League . In the 2014/15 season he looked after the team of Junior Minsk from the second-rate Wysschaja Liga .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vasily Pankov cbsnews.com
  2. ^ Doping Irregularities at the Olympics sports-reference.com
  3. ↑ Positive doping test with Augsburg's Vasilij Pankov - Panther Stümer suspended until the results are confirmed. In: eishockey.info. February 23, 2002, accessed January 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ The acquittal by the IOC for Augsburg's Vasilij Pankov - Panther Stürmer is now eligible to play again. In: eishockey.info. March 22, 2002, accessed January 18, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Belarus launches women's team. In: iihf.com. September 17, 2010, accessed January 18, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Pankou, Wassil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Minsk