Viktor Viktorovich Maigurov

Viktor Maigurov
Full name	Viktor Viktorovich Maigurov
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Belarus (until 1994) Russia (from 1994)
birthday	7th February 1969
place of birth	Severouralsk ,  Soviet Union
Career
job	Lawyer
Debut in the World Cup	1992
World Cup victories	8th
status	resigned
End of career	2003
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 2 × World Cup medals 3 × 4 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1998 Nagano Season bronze 2002 Salt Lake City singles  Biathlon world championships silver 1996 Ruhpolding sprint gold 1996 Ruhpolding Season silver 1996 Ruhpolding team gold 1997 Osrblie persecution bronze 1998 Hochfilzen team silver 1999 Kontiolahti Season gold 2000 Lahti Season silver 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	2nd ( 1995/1996 ) 3rd ( 1996/1997 )
Sprint World Cup	3. ( 1996/1997 )
Pursuit World Cup	1.  ( 1996/1997 )
Mass start world cup	1.  ( 2001/2002 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 1 1 5 sprint 4th 4th 2 persecution 3 1 0 Mass start 0 0 1 Season 5 3 2

Viktor Viktorovich Maigurow ( Russian: Виктор Викторович Майгуров ; born February 7, 1969 in Severouralsk in Sverdlovsk Oblast , then Soviet Union ) is a former Russian biathlete and now a politician and biathlon official.

Career

Viktor Maigurov took part in three Winter Olympic Games. In 1994 he started for Belarus and finished fourth in the season. In Nagano 1998 he won the bronze medal with the Russian relay and at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City he was able to win the bronze medal in the individual over 20 km. At world championships Maigurow was able to book a total of three title wins for himself, a single title at the first staging of the pursuit competition in 1997 and twice with the Russian relay in 1996 and 2000 . He also won two of his four silver medals with relays, in Oslo in 1999 and in 2003 in his home town of Khanty-Mansiysk. He won two further silver medals in Ruhpolding in 1996 in the sprint and with the team. In the 1998 Olympic year he was also able to take home a bronze medal from the World Team Championship . He also won national championship titles.

Although Maigurow was not able to secure the overall World Cup in his career - he finished second in the overall standings in the 1995/96 season , he did achieve two victories in the discipline World Cup ratings with the Pursuit World Cup 1996/1997 and the Mass Start World Cup 2001/2002 . He won a total of eight World Cup races in his career and was on the podium 22 times. Until 1994 he started for Belarus, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union for the USSR. Maigurow said goodbye to active sport in 2003.

Maigurow lives in Khanty-Mansiysk , is married and has one child.

Lawyer, politician and biathlon official

As early as 1994 during his active career Maigurow worked as an assistant trainer at a biathlon school in Khanty-Mansiysk. While still active, he began studying law at the Ural Institute of Commerce and Law ( Уральский институт коммерции и права ), which he graduated in 2001 as a lawyer. This was followed by a two-year activity for the Ministry of the Interior , after which he switched to the administration of the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug , first as a speaker, then as director of a secondary educational institution for winter sports ( "Школа высшего спортивного мастерства-2" ) and from 2008 as chairman of the Committee on Physical Education and Sport. When the administration was restructured, Maigurow became the first incumbent of the newly created Ministry of Sports and Tourism in November 2009. He is also President of the Autonomous Okrug's Biathlon Federation . Maigurow is an Honored Master of Sports and he carries the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland 1st and 2nd level.

In 2014 he was elected 1st Vice President of the International Biathlon Union . In 2018, he was not allowed to run for re-election due to the suspension of full membership of the Russian Association due to allegations of corruption . His successor was the Czech Jiří Hamza .

In July 2020, Maigurow was elected president of the Russian biathlon association RBU as the successor to the resigned Vladimir Drachev .

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	team	Season	total
1st place	1	4th	3			5	13
2nd place	1	4th	1			3	9
3rd place	5	2		1		2	10
Top 10	20th	27	15th	7th	1	18th	88
Scoring	29	58	33	14th	2	18th	154
Starts	46	80	42	14th	2	18th	202
Status : End of career / dates may not be complete

Web links

• Wiktor Wiktorowitsch Maigurow in the database of the IBU (English)
• Wiktor Wiktorowitsch Maigurow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Министром спорта и туризма Югры назначен Виктор Майгуров ( Russian ) ИА REGNUM. January 11, 2010. Retrieved November 5, 2010.
2. ↑ ^{a b} В Югре появился первый министр ( Russian ) УралИнформБюро - www.uralinform.ru. January 11, 2010. Retrieved November 5, 2010.
3. ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 27 февраля 1998 года № 206 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации спортсменов, тренеров, работников физической культуры и спорта по итогам XVIII зимних Олимпийских игр 1998 года» ( Russian ) February 27, 1998. Retrieved on November 5 2010.
4. ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 5 мая 2003 года № 502 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации спортсменов, тренеров, работников физической культуры и спорта» ( Russian ) Правотека.ру. March 5, 2009. Retrieved November 5, 2010.
5. ^ Dpa : Maigurow becomes president of Russia's biathlon association. In: sueddeutsche.de . July 11, 2020, accessed July 11, 2020 .