Pavel Porzhnev

Pavel Sergeyevich Porschnew (Russian Павел Сергеевич Поршнев; born August 3, 1983 in Kandalakscha ) is a Russian natural track luge. He also started in the recliner, but is particularly successful in doubles with his partner Ivan Lazarev. With three world titles, five European championship titles and three overall World Cup victories, they form one of the most successful doubles pairs.

Career

Porschnew started from 2001 in international junior championships and played in January 2002 Huttau and Železniki his first World Cup race. In single-seater he reached in these World Cup races only rankings to rank 30 and also in the doubles he could classify his partner Ivan Lazarev only in the final field. In February of the same year Porschnew / Lazarev were at the European Championships in Frantschach Tenth and last at the same time, but at the Junior World Championship in 2002 in Gsies they won the silver medal in the doubles, in the single-seater Porschnew was ninth.

In the season 2002/2003 the doubles pair Porschnew / Lazarev succeeded in rising to the top. At the beginning of the season they were in Vols for the first time on the podium and on January 19, 2003, she celebrated her first World Cup victory in Moscow. After another win in Kindberg they could with a second place at the final in Olang overtake the Polish double Andrzej Laszczak and Damian Waniczek in the overall standings by ten points, so they are equal in their first full season secured the overall World Cup victory. Porschnew took this winter and twice in the single-seater at World Cup races in part, but scoring only the spaces 21 and 18 at the World Championship 2003 in Slovenia Železniki won Porschnew / Lazarev, who had a week earlier became European Junior Champion in Kreuth, the silver medal behind the Austrians Wolfgang and Andreas Schopf. In single-seater Porschnew finished 27th rank.

In the World Cup season 2003/2004 the Russian double get two wins and three podiums. At the finals in Herzogenaurach they reached with a third place the same total number of points as the Austrians Schopf / Schopf, who finished the last race in second position. Due to the better outcome String (fourth place at Porschnew / Lazarev over a fifth of crested / crested ) won the Russians for the second time the two-seat World Cup. In single-seater Porschnew reached with two 16th places in Grande Prairie and Garmisch- Partenkirchen his best World Cup results to date. In the overall classification, he finished with it, as well as the next winter, the 24th place. These two overall rankings are his best so far in the single-seater. At the 2004 European Championships in Huttau Porschnew / Lazarev won in front of their countrymen Denis Alimov and Roman Molwistow the gold medal in doubles. In single-seater Porschnew achieved rank 29

Only a win was the duo Porschnew / Lazarev in the season 2004/2005. In the overall standings, they fell behind by the Austrians Beer / Kögl back with three wins and poles Laszczak / Waniczek with two wins in third place. At the World Cup 2005 in Laces, the Russians were not to beat. They won against the Italians Armin Mair and John Hofer the gold medal in doubles and together with Ekaterina Lawrentjewa and Alexei Lebedev, the silver medal in the team competition, behind the team Austria I.

In the season 2005/2006 Porschnew / Lazarev won two World Cup races in Grande Prairie and achieved a further three podiums. In the overall standings they were beaten only by Austrian double Christian Schatz and Gerhard Muhlbacher, which also celebrated two victories of the season. In the 2006 European Championship in Obergurgl itself Porschnew / Lazarev sat against the Austrians but by Schatz / Muhlbacher and they were with Laufbestzeiten in both rounds for the second time European champions. The Einsitzerwettbewerb ended Porschnew number 30.

The overall victory in the 2006/2007 season brought with three race wins back the Austrians treasure and Mühlbach. Although Pawel Porschnew and Ivan Lazarev reached four second places, but remained without a win and thus in the overall standings 30 points behind the Austrians in second place. At the 2007 World Championships in Canada Grande Prairie, where Porschnew / Lazarev had won the year before both World Cup races, they were also successful this time. With two Laufbestzeiten and a lead of 1.42 seconds on their compatriots Alexander Yegorov and Pyotr Popov they secured for the second time in her career the world title. In the team competition the team Russia I started in the Porschnew and Lazarev was, however, disqualified because the rails on Lasarews toboggan had too high a temperature.

In the World Cup season 2007/2008, the duo Porschnew / Lazarev, as well as all other doubles pairs, the outstanding Italian duo Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara was defeated, who won all six World Cup races. With four second, third and fifth place, the Russians scored for the third consecutive second place in the overall World Cup. Only at the 2008 European Championships in Olang they could beat the Italians and thus became the third consecutive European Champion, which previously was only the Austrian brothers Andi and Helmut Ruetz.

Also in the 2008/2009 season occupied Porschnew / Lazarev second place in the overall World Cup behind Pigneter / Clara. They started the season with two wins while St. Sebastian and Umhausen, but all other races won the Italian double. At the season's peak remained Porschnew / Lazarev, who had won in the last five years, all European and World Championships in doubles for the first time since Euro 2002 in this discipline without a medal. They reached at the 2009 World Championships in moss pass eggs in only fourth place in the doubles, but won bronze with the team. This winter Porschnew for three years took the first time, again at three in the World Cup Einsitzerrennen part, but did not place it on 22. Starting next winter, he started again exclusively in doubles.

In the World Cup season 2009/2010 Porschnew / Lazarev won a race in Novouralsk and reached four other podium finishes for the fifth time in a row and for the third time Pigneter / Clara second place in the overall World Cup. Your worst result of the season they achieved at the European Championships 2010 in St. Sebastian, where they were only sixth. In the season 2010/2011 Porschnew / Lazarev as last year achieved a victory in Novouralsk and a further four podium places with which they were for the sixth consecutive year, second in the overall World Cup. At the World Cup 2011 in Umhausen they were after 2005 and 2007 for the third time world champion in doubles and won by Ekaterina Lawrentjewa and Yuri Talych in Russia I team for the second time in a row the bronze medal in the team competition.

In the season 2011/2012 Porschnew / Lazarev reached four wins and two second places, so they decided for the third time and for the first time in eight years, the two-seat World Cup itself. Victorious, they were also at the European Championships 2012 in Novouralsk where they the European title in doubles and together with Ekaterina Lawrentjewa and Yuri Talych won for the fourth time, the first time the team competition.

Achievements

( Doubles with Ivan Lazarev )

World Championships

  • Železniki 2003: 2 two-seaters, 27 seaters
  • Laces 2005: 1st doubles, 2nd team
  • Grande Prairie 2007: 1 double seater
  • Moos in Passeier 2009: 4 doubles, 3 crew
  • Umhausen 2011: 1 double seater, 3rd team

European Championships

  • Frantschach 2002: 10 doubles, 27 seater
  • Huttau 2004: 1 double seater, 29 seater
  • Umhausen 2006: 1 double seater, 30 seater
  • Olang 2008: 1 double seater
  • St. Sebastian 2010: 6 two-seater
  • Novouralsk 2012: 1 double seater, 1st team

Junior World Championships

  • Gsies 2002: 2 ​​double seater, 9 seater

European Junior Championships

  • Tiers 2001: 6 two-seater, 23 -seater
  • Kreuth 2003: 1 double seater, 16 seater

World Cup

  • 3x overall World Cup victory in the doubles in the seasons 2002/2003, 2003/2004 and 2011/2012
  • 6x 2 overall ranking in doubles in the seasons 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011
  • 1x 3rd place overall in doubles in the season 2004/2005
  • 50 podiums including 15 victories:
FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2005 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2007 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2009 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2011 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2004 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2006 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2008 Kandalaksha FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2002 Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud Wolfgang Schopf Reinhard Beer Aleksey Lebedev Andi Ruetz Sankt Sebastian, Styria FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2010 Italy Damiano Lugon Corrado Hérin David Mair (natural track luger and skeleton racer) Melanie Batkowski Thomas Kammerlander Christian Schopf
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