Andrey Dundukov
Andrei Dundukow (Russian: Андрей Дундуков; born November 12, 1966 in Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk ) is a former Soviet Nordic combined. He was active from 1985 to 1992. Until their breakup, he started for the Soviet Union, then finally for the CIS.
Career
Dundukow made his international debut on 23 February 1985 at the World Cup Nordic Combined in Leningrad. With a ranking of seven he jumped right off the bat in the top ten, and thus won the first World Cup points.
In the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 1986 in Lake Placid Dundukow won the gold medal in singles ahead of Austrian Günter Csar and the Tschoslowaken František Řepka. Together with Vasily Sawin and Sergei Nikiforov, he won silver in the team competition behind the team from Norway.
At the beginning of the season 1985/87 Dundukow succeeded in Upper Wiesenthal was one point success with rank 14, although this was his weakest World Cup in a row. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1987 in Oberstdorf, he landed in the individual only to a disappointing 14th place for him. Only with the team he showed his qualities and won together with Sergei Chervyakov and Allar Levandi the bronze medal behind the teams from Germany and Norway.
In the World Cup, or the World Cup again get him in Lahti, Falun and Leningrad top 10 places before he finished the season with the 12th place in Oslo. In the season 1987/88 he did not go initially to the start. Despite the meantime, he was part of the squad for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. There he reached 12th place in the individual race with the team he left after just two starters already out in jumping.
After Dundukow barely fourth missed his first World Cup podium in March in Falun, he finally succeeded the jump on this as a third party in Rovaniemi. Even at its next World Cup in January 1989 in Schonach he could climb as now second on the podium again. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1989 in Lahti, he won in a single surprise silver medal. With the team but he missed a fourth defense of the bronze medal in the world championship in 1987 just barely. The season he finally finished after three more top-10 results in eighth place overall.
In the 1989/90 season Dundukow started with a very good fourth in St. Moritz. During the season, however, he did not present himself to all the World Cup. In his fourth season World Cup in Oslo he succeeded in his first and only World Cup victory. He defended despite the boisterous at the end of the World Cup again in eighth overall.
In the season 1990 /91 and in the 1991/92 season, he started in only one World Cup. Despite a fourth rank in Trondheim and seventh in Štrbské Pleso it consistent for him in these two starts. This was due to the upheaval in the team after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Although his lack of World Cup starts few chances were calculated, Dundukow belonged at the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992 for the Commonwealth of Independent States. However, in the single as well as with the team he only reached rank 11
Achievements
World Cup Stats
The table shows the achieved placings in detail.
- Place 1st-3rd. Number of podiums
- Top 10: Number of placings in the top ten
- Points ranking: number of placements within the points positions
- Start: Number overflowed race in the respective discipline