Albert Demchenko

Albert Mikhailovich Demchenko (Russian: Альберт Михайлович Демченко; born 27 November 1971) is a Russian luger who competed from 1992 to 2014. He is currently coaching the Russian luge team.^[1] His daughter Victoria Demchenko is also a luger.

Career

A seven-time Winter Olympian, he won his first medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin with a silver in the men's singles event. He competed in his sixth Olympics at the 2010 Winter Olympics, coming fourth. He then competed in his seventh Olympics in Sochi 2014 in his native Russia, winning a further two silver medals.

Demchenko also won eight medals at the FIL European Luge Championships with four golds (Men's singles: 2006, 2010; Mixed team: 2012, 2014), two silvers (Men's singles: 1996, 2008), and two bronzes (Men's doubles: 1996; Mixed team: 2013).

He was overall Luge World Cup champion in men's singles in 2004–05.

In December 2017, he was one of eleven Russian athletes who were banned for life from the Olympics by the International Olympic Committee, after doping offences at the 2014 Winter Olympics.^[2] In January 2018, he and Tatyana Ivanova successfully appealed against the lifetime ban as well as decision to strip his medals from Sochi Olympics at the court of arbitration for sport.^[3] As a result, both his medals were reinstated.

World Cup podiums

Season titles

1 titles – (1 singles)

References

^ Albert Demchenko Appointed Russian Head Coach
^ "IOC bans 11 Russian winter athletes for life for Sochi 2014 doping". Reuters. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
^ "THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT (CAS) DELIVERS ITS DECISIONS IN THE MATTER OF 39 RUSSIAN ATHLETES V/ THE IOC:28 APPEALS UPHELD, 11 PARTIALLY UPHELD" (PDF). THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT. 2018-02-01. Retrieved 2018-02-01.

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"List of men's singles luge World Cup champions since 1978". Archived from the original on 2008-02-06. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
"NBC Biography". Archived from the original on 2006-03-06. Retrieved 2006-03-04.

External links

Media related to Albert Demchenko at Wikimedia Commons