Aleksandr Yelizarov

Alexander Matveyitch Elizarov (Russian Александр Матвеевич Елизаров; born March 7, 1952 in Nizhny Wjasowka or Mywal, Rajon Sosnovoborsk in the Oblast Penza, then Soviet Union) is a former Soviet biathlete.

Alexander Elizarov began with fifteen years while on holiday in Kuznetsk with the cross-country skiing. He won several regional races and then came to an engineering school in Penza, where he could train intensively and was promoted. There he was a member of Biathlon training group. In 1973, he was inducted into the Junior National Team. In the same year, he managed to beat Alexander Tikhonov at the USSR Cup. At the World Championships in 1975, he finished second in both the individual and with the season ( Elizarov, Ushakov, Kruglov, Tikhonov ). In 1976 he moved to prepare for the Olympic Games by Mytischtschi. At this time he started for Moscow Trud. At the Olympic Winter Games 1976 in Innsbruck Elizarov won a gold medal in the biathlon relay and a bronze medal in singles. As a starter for the season he delivered with a 42 -second lead on Ivan Bjakow. Nikolai Kruglov and Alexander Tikhonov built from the boss, it stayed all four Soviet runner shot flawlessly. With the third-best running time at two misses, he secured behind Kruglov and just behind Heikki Ikola third place in singles. He won silver at the World Championships in the same year, in which only the non-Olympic sprint competition was held. In the Biathlon World Championships 1977 in Vingrom he won his only world title. The Soviet squadron won the same cast as in 1975 ahead of Finland and the GDR. In the sprint, he was in the Seventeenth and single he did not play. At the national level, he won two league titles in 1973 and 1975 respectively in the sprint. At the end of the 1977 season, he finished his career. He then worked as a biathlon coach. In 1982 he founded a youth sports school for biathlon, which was named after him ( Пушкинская комплексная детско - юношеская спортивная школа по биатлону и другим видам спорта имени А. М. Елизарова ) and its first director he was. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he began the trade of sports equipment and operates a number of sporting weapons shops. Elizarov both the title of Honored Master of Sports (1976 ) and Honored coach of Russia was granted and he was awarded the Medal of the Soviet Union. He was made an honorary citizen of the community Puschkino 2009. Elizarov is married, has a son and a daughter.