Vladimir Petrovich Alexandrov

Vladimir Alexandrov
Full name	Vladimir Petrovich Alexandrov
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	7th February 1958 (age 62)
place of birth	Ilyino , Pskov Oblast ,  Russian SFSR
size	178 cm
Weight	89 kg
Career
society	Dynamo Krasnodar
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1984 Sarajevo two  European bobsleigh championships bronze 1984 Igls two gold 1985 St. Moritz two silver 1987 Cervinia two

Vladimir Petrovich Alexandrov ( Russian Владимир Петрович Александров ; born February 7, 1958 in Ilyino , Pskov Oblast ) is a former bobsledder who competed for the Soviet Union.

Together with Zintis Ekmanis , Alexandrow won the first Soviet Olympic medal in bobsleigh when they finished third in the two-man bobsleigh in Sarajevo in 1984 . In the four-man bobsleigh, the two, along with their colleagues Jānis Skrastiņš and Rihards Kotāns, took twelfth place. In the same year Alexandrow and Ekmanis also won bronze at the European Championships . In 1985 they became European champions in the two-man bobsleigh. Alexandrow won the silver medal at the 1987 European Bobsleigh Championship with the pilot Jānis Ķipurs . In addition, Alexandrov was Soviet champion in 1984 and won five bronze medals at national championships between 1982 and 1987.

Web links

• Vladimir Petrovich Alexandrov in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )