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Alexandre Zoubkov

Alexandr Zubkov
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Alexandr Zubkov at the 2014 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality Russian
Born (1974-08-10) 10 August 1974 (age 42)
Bratsk,  Soviet Union
Residence Dmitrov, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 100 kg (220 lb)
Sport
Country  Russia
Sport Bobsleigh (pilot)
Turned pro 1999
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals 1st, gold medalist(s)2nd, silver medalist(s)3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Alexandr Yuryevich Zubkov (Russian: Александр Юрьевич Зубков, born 10 August 1974) is a Russian retired bobsledder who has competed since 1999. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he won four medals with a silver in 2006 (four-man), a bronze in 2010 (two-man), and two golds in 2014 (two-man and four-man).

Zubkov also won four medals at the FIBT World Championships with two silvers (Four-man: 2005, 2008) and two bronzes (Two-man: 2008, Four-man: 2003). He won the Bobsleigh World Cup in the four-man event three times as well (2004-5, 2005–6, 2008–9).

Prior to competing in bobsleigh, he competed in luge. Zubkov finished 20th in the men's singles event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.

In 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, he was the flag bearer of Russia for the Opening Ceremony. Zubkov won Gold in both Two-Man and Four-Man Bobsleigh. 39-year-old Zubkov is the third-oldest pilot to win two-man gold in Bobsleigh

In the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Zubkov was coached by a former rival, Canadian Pierre Lueders. Zubkov also paid a fee to borrow personal skids from the 2011 World Champion, Germany's Manuel Machata. Machata bought the skids for 29'000 EUR in Switzerland, and had not qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics. The 2014 Olympics saw Germany failing to win a bobsleigh medal at an Olympics for the first time since Innsbruck 1964. Machata did not inform German Bobsleigh Luge and Skeleton Federation of this loan and received a one-year competitive ban and fine of €5,000 (250,000 rubles) from the Federation.


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