Alexey Poltoranin

Alexey Poltoranin
Poltoranin at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Born	(1987-04-27) April 27, 1987 (age 29) Ridder, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
World Cup career
Seasons	2005–
Individual wins	8
Indiv. podiums	18
Medal record Men's cross country skiing Representing  Kazakhstan World Championships 2013 Val di Flemme Team sprint 2013 Val di Flemme 50 km Asian Winter Games 2011 Astana-Almaty Sprint 2011 Astana-Almaty Team sprint 2011 Astana-Almaty 30 km 2011 Astana-Almaty 4×10 km relay 2007 Changchun Sprint 2011 Astana-Almaty 10 km

Alexey Yurevich Poltoranin (Russian: Алексей Юрьевич Полторанин, born April 29, 1987) is a Kazakh cross-country skier who has competed at the international senior level since 2004. He has three world cup wins, one in 2010 and two in 2013. In the 2013 World Championship in Val di Fiemme he got two bronze medals. Most of his best results are in classic skiing.

Poltoranin competed at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics, the World Ski Championships in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013.

Poltoranin finished fifth in both the individual and team sprint at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

In the 2013 World Championship in Val di Fiemme Poltoranin won two bronze medals. First day, Poltoranin competed in classical sprint, where qualified to semifinal, but he broke his ski poles at the start and was forced to lost. Next day, Alexey Poltoranin and Nikolay Chebotko have won bronze at the men's team sprint. In the last day of the championship, he took bronze at the men's 50 km classic and finished after Johan Olsson and Dario Cologna. His other World Championship results include sixth in the team sprint in 2011 and seventh places at the 4×10 km relay in 2007 and the team sprint in 2009.