Alexey Prokurorov is a famous domestic athlete. He became the champion of the world and the Olympic Games in skiing. He has the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
Athlete Biography
Alexey Prokurorov was born in the Vladimir region in 1964. He was born in the small village of Mishino, located in the Murom district.
The national team was first included in 1985 at the World Universiade. At these competitions, he first made himself known to the whole world. Alexey Prokurorov won three medals at once. He helped the team win the relay (4 stages of 10 kilometers each), became the second in the 30-kilometer distance and received a bronze medal on the 15-kilometer track.
Since 1986, he became officially a member of the national team on a regular basis.
Olympics in Canada
In 1988, 24-year-old Prokurorov Aleksei Alekseevich went to the Winter Olympic Games in Canadian Calgary as part of the USSR team. This Olympics was for him the first and most successful.
Success came to him already at the second distance of the competition. The first (15 kilometers in classical style) was better for his compatriot Mikhail Devyatyarov, who won gold. It is noteworthy that the bronze was also in the Soviet skier Vladimir Smirnov. And only the silver medal was able to pick up the Norwegian Paul Gunnar Mikkelsplass.
At a distance of 30 kilometers in classical style, Alexei Prokurorov came in great shape and showed a brilliant time. On this day, no one could compete with him for the victory on the track. The hero of our article won a gold medal. The second was his compatriot Vladimir Smirnov, bronze from another Norwegian, Vegard Ulwang.
It is worth noting that that Olympics was generally successful for Soviet skiers. The USSR women's team won the relay, gold medals were won by Vida Venzene (at a distance of 10 kilometers with a classic style) and Tamara Tikhonova (20 kilometers with a classic style).
The USSR men's team, which included Alexei Prokurorov, Vladimir Smirnov, Vladimir Sakhnov, Mikhail Devyatyarov, received silver in the relay. The victory went to the Swedish squad.
Olympic standard bearer
Alexey Prokurorov is a skier who took part in five Olympic Games. Twice - in the Japanese Nagano in 1998 and the American Salt Lake City in 2002 - he was the standard bearer of the team at the opening ceremony.
True, he was no longer able to win a single Olympic medal. In 2002, he arrived in the American Salt Lake City as a veteran. He is 38 years old.
World Championship Victories
After success at the Olympic Games, Alexei Alekseevich Prokurorov, whose biography is closely related to sports, achieved success at world championships.
In 1989, in Finnish Lahti, he became the third at a marathon distance of 50 kilometers. In 1993, he won the bronze in the relay 4 stages of 10 kilometers along with Andrei Kirillov, Igor Badamshin and Mikhail Botvinov.
In 1995, he became the third in the classic world style at the Thunder Bay Canadian Championship at a distance of 30 kilometers.
Success in Trondheim
The most successful of his career was the 1997 World Cup, which took place in Trondheim, Norway. He came to the tournament with an experienced mentor, the 1980 Olympic champion Vasily Pavlovich Rochev.
The first distance is 30 kilometers in free style with a separate start. Delivers a brilliant victory Prokurorov Aleksei Alekseevich. A brief biography of the athlete necessarily contains the time for which he passed this distance. 1 hour 6 minutes and 28 seconds. His closest pursuer, the Norwegian Bjorn Daly, was 17 seconds behind, and another Norwegian, Thomas Alsgård, lost even more.
A few days later, at a distance of 10 kilometers, the classical style of the Prosecutors and Bjorn Daly changed places. This time the Norwegian won, having covered the distance in 23 minutes and 41 seconds. And the Russian was half an minute behind. The third was the Finnish skier Mika Mülläl.
The same three athletes were on the podium in the free style pursuit. The Norwegian again took the gold, the Finnish athlete climbed to the second step, and the Prosecutors became the third. The fight for the silver medal was fought to the last, the winner was determined literally in the finish line. The prosecutors lost six tenths of a second.
