Pyotr Popov

Pyotr Alexandrovich Popov (Russian Пётр Александрович Попов; born September 4, 1985 in Kandalakscha ) is a Russian natural track luge. Together with his doubles partner Alexander Yegorov, he became Vice World Champion 2007, won two bronze medals at the European Championships and in 2005 was European Junior Champion. In the double World Cup so far won a race and achieved a further six podium finishes. By 2003, Popov started in single-seaters.

Career

Pyotr Popov took from 2000 International junior championships. Earlier in his career he started in doubles, together with Mikhail Trufanow and also in the single-seater. In the Junior European Championship 2000 in Obergurgl Popov was 24 in single-seat and at the Junior European Championship 2001 in Tires 18 in the single-seater. In doubles, he finished with Trufanow the seventh and eighth place. At the Junior World Cup 2002 in Gsies Popov succeeded in twelfth place in the recliner, along with Trufanow but only the eighth and last place in the doubles. Since the winter of 2002/2003 Pyotr Popov starts together with Alexander Yegorov in doubles. On January 19, 2003, she denied her first World Cup race in Moscow and came as Penultimate to eleventh place. Here Pyotr Popov also took the only time part in a World Cup race in single-seater and drove it to 24th place, two weeks after the World Cup debut scored Popov at the Junior European Championship 2003 in Kreuth the 21th place in the single-seater and Yegorov fifth in doubles. Another week later, the duo Yegorov / Popov started at the 2003 World Cup in Železniki first time at an international title fight in the general class and was ranked ten of the twelve evaluated doubles pairs. In this World Cup Popov also launched for the last time in the single-seater and was ranked 23rd then on, he only went in international competitions in the doubles at the start. As in the previous season took Yegorov / Popov in the season 2003/2004 only at the World Cup race in Moscow. This time they reached the sixth of eight evaluated doubles. At the Junior World Championship 2004 in Kindberg the double scored the fourth place at the 2004 European Championships in Huttau sixth.

In the next two years Pyotr Popov and Alexander Yegorov started in several World Cup races. In the season 2004/2005 she participated in four of six races in part, came every time in the top eight and occupied so that the overall World Cup eighth. In the season 2005/2006 they started in the first three World Cup races, achieved in Longiaru and Olang each fifth place in Kindberg eighth and were thus Seventh in doubles overall World Cup. A huge success achieved by the two Russians at the European Junior Championship in 2005 in her hometown Kandalakscha. With almost three seconds ahead of Austrian Mario Schernthaner and Siegfried force the then 19 -year-old Junior European Champion in doubles were. In one month before discharged World Championship 2005 in Laces they were seventh in doubles. In the 2006 European Championship in Obergurgl achieved Yegorov / Popov eighth place in the doubles. Since the season 2006/2007 Pyotr Popov and Alexander Yegorov in all World Cup races at the start and celebrated on January 14, 2007 in Umhausen their first and only World Cup victory, when she 16 hundredths of a second before the Russian number-one double Pawel Porschnew and Ivan Lazarev came to the finish. Another podium finish - third place on 9 February in moss in pass eggs - and a total of five finishes among the top seven helped them to fourth place in the overall World Cup and thus to their best result so far in the overall standings. Your good form showed Pyotr Popov and Alexander Yegorov also at the 2007 World Championships in Canada Grande Prairie, where they won the silver medal in the doubles by 1.42 seconds behind their compatriots Porschnew / Lazarev and also together with Julija Wetlowa in team Russia II Fourth in team competition were.

In the 2007/2008 season, the duo Yegorov / Popov initially scored two seventh places, then came twice in the top five and finished the season with two third place finishes in Železniki, which they reached the fifth place in the overall World Cup. At the 2008 European Championships in Olang they won behind their compatriots Porschnew / Lazarev and the Italians Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara the bronze medal. In the 2008/2009 season Yegorov / Popov remained without podium. Their best result was the fourth rank in German oven, twice they came in fifth place and all the other races, they finished at least in the top eight. In the overall World Cup they fell back to seventh place - just one point behind the sixth-placed Christian Schatz and Gerhard Muhlbacher. At the 2009 World Championships in moss pass eggs in the duo Yegorov / Popov drove in doubles directly behind their teammates Porschnew / Lazarev in fifth place. In the team competition came Pyotr Popov and Alexander Yegorov - again with Julija Wetlowa as Team Russia II - to eighth place. At the beginning of the 2009/2010 season Yegorov / Popov return two podium finishes in the World Cup; they achieved in Novouralsk the third and second place. After that, however, they came in no more World Cup races in the top five and were able to improve the overall World Cup only one place to sixth. At the European Championships 2010 in St. Sebastian Yegorov / Popov won like two years ago in Olang the bronze medal in the doubles - this time behind Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara and the Poles Andrzej Laszczak and Damian Waniczek. In the team competition, they reached this time together with Ekaterina Lawrentjewa the first time in team Russia I starting fifth.

In the season 2010/2011 Pyotr Popov and Alexander Yegorov participated only in the first two World Cup races in Novouralsk. They took places five and three, and thus rank ten in the overall World Cup. In the season 2011/2012 they started again in five of the six two-seat World Cup race of the winter, between fifth and tenth place but could only improve to ninth place in the overall World Cup rankings with. At the European Championships 2012 in Novouralsk Yegorov / Popov occupied the seventh place in doubles, while II Sixth were in the team competition with Lyudmila Aksenenko and Stanislaw Kowschik in team Russia.

Achievements

( unless otherwise stated, two-seater with Alexander Yegorov )

World Championships

• Železniki 2003: 23 seater, 10 seater double
• Laces 2005: 7 doubles
• Grande Prairie 2007: 2 doubles, 4 crew
• Moos in Passeier 2009: 5 doubles, 8 team

European Championships

• Huttau 2004: 6 two-seater
• Umhausen 2006: 8 doubles
• Olang 2008: 3 doubles
• St. Sebastian 2010: 3 doubles, 5 team
• Novouralsk 2012: 7 doubles, 6 team

Junior World Championships

• Gsies 2002: 12 seater, 8 doubles ( with Mikhail Trufanow )
• Kindberg 2004: 4 doubles

European Junior Championships

• Umhausen 2000: 24 seater, 7 doubles ( with Mikhail Trufanow )
• Tiers 2001: 18 seater, 8 doubles ( with Mikhail Trufanow )
• Kreuth 2003: 21 seater, 5 doubles
• Kandalakscha 2005: 1 double seater

World Cup

• 4th place overall in doubles Luge World Cup in the 2006/2007 season
• 5th overall in doubles Luge World Cup in the 2007 /2008 season
• A further six times in the top ten in doubles overall World Cup
• Seven podium finishes in doubles, including a win: