Yevgeny Dementyev

Yevgeny Alexandrovich Dementyev (in Russian Евгений Александрович Дементьев; born January 17, 1983 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Khanty -Mansiysk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ) is a Russian cross-country skiers.

He won at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf bronze team. At the Olympic Winter Games 2006, he was in Pragelato in the pursuit race over 30 km Olympic champion and won the 50 km race the silver medal. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo he could win together with Nikolai Pankratov, Vasily Rotschew and Alexander Legkow the silver medal in the relay. To kick off the World Championships he was, however, occupied by the World Ski Federation FIS with a five-day lock-protected due to excessive hemoglobin.

After Dementyev was tested in doping controls at the 2nd, 3rd and January 19, 2009 positive effect on the doping agent erythropoietin (EPO), he was on 26 August 2009 his retirement from competitive sport known. In November 2009, the FIS Dementyev imprisoned for two years retroactively from August 2009. However After his suspension, he joined again in competition. Here in, among other things in February 2012 managed a 4th place at the World Cup in Rybinsk.