Vasily Kirsanov starts for the Center for Sports Training ( Центр спортивной подготовки ) in Ulyanovsk . As a junior he was already successful, with the 3 × 6 km relay as second runner together with Kozlov and Alexei Terechow third in the Russian junior championships in Izhevsk. He took part in the 2007 Winter Universiade in Cesana San Sicario , where he finished 22nd in the individual and 24th in the mass start. Since then he has concentrated on the sub-discipline of cross-country running - summer biathlon . At the Russian Championships in Izhevsk in 2008 , he won the sprint title. He qualified for the 2008 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Haute-Maurienne , where he finished twelve in the sprint and eleven in the pursuit. The next major international event was the 2010 Summer Biathlon European Championships in Osrblie , where Kirsanow was eighth in the sprint and sixth in the pursuit. Kirsanov is a graduate of the Sports Faculty of the Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University ( Ульяновский государственный педагогический университет имени И.Н.Ульянова ).
↑ Кафедр Лёгкой атлетики - Athletics Department ( Russian ) Ульяновский государственный педагогический университет имена .И.Нотет имена .И.Нотет имена. Archived from the original on December 26, 2010. Retrieved November 6, 2010.
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