Wesselin Zinsow

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Wesselin Zinsow Cross-country skiing
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nation BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria
birthday 29th July 1986 (age 34)
place of birth Samokov , Bulgaria
Career
society Alexander Logistics
status active
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 2, 2007
 Overall World Cup 118th ( 2016/17 )
 Distance World Cup 76th (2016/17)
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
 Debut in the Continental Cup January 9, 2005
 Continental Cup victories 33 ( details )
 BC overall rating 1. ( 2005/06 , 2007/08 , 2010/11 ,
2012/13 , 2015/16 , 2016/17 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 OPA individual race 0 1 0
 BC individual race 33 12 4th
 SC individual race 0 0 1
last change: April 14, 2017

Wesselin Zinsow ( Bulgarian Веселин Цинзов ; born July 29, 1986 in Samokow ) is a Bulgarian cross-country skier .

Career

Zinsow has been taking part in competitions organized by the Fédération Internationale de Ski since 2004 . His best placings at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf were 74th place in the sprint and 22nd place in the team sprint. Since 2006 he has mainly competed in the Balkan Cup . He has won 34 wins so far (as of the end of the 2017/18 season) and won the overall ranking in 2006 , 2008 , 2011 , 2013 , 2016 and 2017 . He ran his first World Cup race in December 2007 in Kuusamo , which he finished classically in 84th place over 15 km. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 , 41st place in the 50 km mass start race was his best result. In January 2010, he got his first World Cup points in Rybinsk with 21st place in the 30 km pursuit race. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he reached 50th place over 15 km freestyle. The 59th place in the 30 km pursuit race and the 46th place over 15 km classic he took at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2011 in Oslo . In January 2013 he won the Biela Stopa over 45 km freestyle. His best result at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 in Val di Fiemme was 48th place in the 30 km skiathlon. In January 2014 in Szklarska Poręba he achieved his best individual World Cup result with 14th place in the 15 km mass start race. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he took 41st place over 15 km classic and 19th place in the team sprint. In February 2015, at the 2015 Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, he achieved 63rd place in sprint and 39th place over 15 km freestyle and skiathlon. He finished the Tour de Ski 2015 in 38th place. In the 2015/16 season he took 39th place at the Nordic Opening in Ruka and 42nd place at the Tour de Ski 2016 . After finishing 45th in the World Cup mini tour in Lillehammer at the beginning of the 2016/17 season, he won nine Balkan Cups. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti , he achieved 48th place over 15 km classic. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he ran to 59th place in the sprint, 36th place over 15 km freestyle and 23rd place together with Yordan Chuchuganov in the team sprint.

successes

Victories in Continental Cup races

No. date place discipline series
1. February 10, 2006 BulgariaBulgaria Vitosha 15 km freestyle Balkan Cup
2. February 11, 2006 BulgariaBulgaria Vitosha 15 km freestyle Mst. Balkan Cup
3. January 12, 2008 BulgariaBulgaria Borovets 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
4th January 13, 2008 BulgariaBulgaria Borovets 15 km freestyle Balkan Cup
5. January 30, 2008 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Mavrovo 5 km freestyle Balkan Cup
6th January 31, 2008 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Mavrovo 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
7th March 23, 2008 TurkeyTurkey Bursa 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
8th. January 17, 2009 BulgariaBulgaria Borovets 10 km classic Balkan Cup
9. January 18, 2009 BulgariaBulgaria Borovets 15 km freestyle Balkan Cup
10. January 8, 2011 BulgariaBulgaria Bansko 15 km classic Balkan Cup
11. January 9, 2011 BulgariaBulgaria Bansko 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
12. February 5, 2011 GreeceGreece Metsovo Classic sprint Balkan Cup
13. February 6, 2011 GreeceGreece Metsovo 15 km freestyle Balkan Cup
14th February 16, 2011 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Mavrovo 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
15th February 17, 2011 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Mavrovo 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
16. March 3, 2012 Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Pale 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
17th March 4, 2012 Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Pale 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
18th March 8, 2012 BulgariaBulgaria Bansko Classic sprint Balkan Cup
19th March 9, 2012 BulgariaBulgaria Bansko 20 km skiathlon Balkan Cup
20th January 12, 2013 GreeceGreece Metsovo Sprint freestyle Balkan Cup
21st January 13, 2013 GreeceGreece Metsovo 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
22nd March 2, 2013 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Mavrovo 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
23. March 3, 2013 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Mavrovo 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
24. March 22, 2016 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Mavrovo 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
25th 17th January 2017 SerbiaSerbia Zlatibor 15 km freestyle Balkan Cup
26th 18th January 2017 SerbiaSerbia Zlatibor 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
27. January 21, 2017 GreeceGreece Metsovo 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
28. 22nd January 2017 GreeceGreece Metsovo 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
29 January 28, 2017 Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Pale 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
30th 29th January 2017 Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Pale 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
31. 4th February 2017 CroatiaCroatia Ravna Gora 10 km classic Balkan Cup
32. 15th February 2017 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Mavrovo 10 km freestyle Balkan Cup
33. March 24, 2017 BulgariaBulgaria Bansko 10 km classic Balkan Cup
34. December 21, 2017 UkraineUkraine Syanki 10 km freestyle Eastern Europe Cup
35. 22nd December 2017 UkraineUkraine Syanki 10 km classic Eastern Europe Cup
36. 17th March 2018 BulgariaBulgaria Bansko 10 km classic Balkan Cup

Victories in ski marathon races

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

  • 2010 Vancouver : 50th place 15 km freestyle
  • 2014 Sochi : 19th place team sprint classic, 41st place 15 km classic, 52nd place 30 km skiathlon
  • 2018 Pyeongchang : 23rd place team sprint freestyle, 36th place 15 km freestyle, 59th place sprint classic

Nordic World Ski Championships

  • 2005 Oberstdorf : 22nd place team sprint freestyle, 74th place sprint classic, 85th place 15 km freestyle
  • 2007 Sapporo : 50th place 15 km freestyle, 55th place 30 km pursuit, 57th place sprint classic
  • 2009 Liberec : 41st place 50 km freestyle mass start, 53rd place 15 km classic, 56th place sprint freestyle
  • 2011 Oslo : 46th place 15 km classic, 59th place 30 km pursuit
  • 2013 Val di Fiemme : 48th place 30 km skiathlon, 70th place sprint classic, 78th place 15 km freestyle
  • 2015 Falun : 39th place 30 km skiathlon, 39th place 15 km freestyle, 63rd place sprint classic
  • 2017 Lahti : 48th place, 15 km classic

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

  • 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
  • Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
  • Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
  • Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
  • Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.
placement Distance races a Skiathlon
pursuit 		sprint Stage
race b 		total Team c
≤ 5 km ≤ 10 km ≤ 15 km ≤ 30 km > 30 km sprint Season
1st place  
2nd place  
3rd place  
Top 10  
Scoring 1 1 2 1 5
Starts 1 11 28 3 16 22nd 7th 88
Status: end of season 2017/18
a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification
bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale
c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Result Biela Stopa 2013
personal data
SURNAME Zinsow, Wesselin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Цинзов, Веселин (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Samokov