Pavel Kolobkov

Pawel Anatoljevich Kolobkov (Russian Павел Анатольевич Колобков; born September 22, 1969 in Moscow ) is a Russian fencer. Since the late 1980s, he was one of the best fencers in the world.

Kolobkov began at the age of twelve years with the sport of fencing. Under the influence of his first coach Boris Nikolaitschuk he grew up to be a top athlete.

He celebrated his first international success at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, when he won the bronze medal with the Soviet team epee. Four years later repeated the crew of the United team, the joint team of the Commonwealth of Independent States countries, this success. Kolobkov crowned his participation with a silver medal in the individual competition.

At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, he won together with Alexander Beketov and Valeri Sacharewitsch the silver medal in team epee competition. And at the Games in Sydney in 2000 Kolobkov was with a victory in the final battle against Frenchman Hugues Obry first Olympic champion.

This track he could not defend at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. After he was inferior to the Chinese player Wang Lei in the semifinals, he won clearly in the battle for the bronze medal against Frenchman Eric Boisse and won the bronze medal.

Addition to his success at the Olympic Games Kolobkov was between 1991 and 2005 six -time world champion.

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