Mikhail Botvinov
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| Medal record | |||
 Mikhail Botvinov |
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| Men's cross country skiing | |||
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Silver | 2002 Salt Lake City | 30 km freestyle mass start | |
| Bronze | 2006 Turin | 50 km freestyle mass start | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1999 Ramsau | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1993 Falun | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1999 Ramsau | 50 km | |
Mikhail Botvinov (born November 17, 1967 in Lidinka, Russia, shown in the picture at left). is a Russian-born Austrian cross country skier who has competed since 1990 for both Russia and Austria. He won two medals at the Winter Olympics with a silver in the men's 30 km freestyle mass start event in 2002 and a bronze in the men's 50 km freestyle mass start in 2006 (Both for Austria). He also competed for the Unifed Team in the 1992 Winter Olympics and for Russia in the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Botvinov also won the 50 km event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1999, becoming the first Austrian to win the prestigious cross country event. He also won the Vasaloppet event in Sweden two years earlier.
His biggest successes were at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where he won three medals. He won a bronze in 1993 for Russia in the 4 x 10 km relay. In 1999, representing Austria, won a gold in the 4 x 10 km relay and a bronze in the 50 km.
Botvinov defected from Russia to Austria in 1996 and was forced to sit out both the 1996-97 FIS World Cup Season and the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano until he could his citizenship status clarified, but returned to cross country form in 1998. He also encountered controversy with his teammate Christian Hoffmann regarding blood doping in 2002, though both cleared by the IOC on April 9, 2002.
[edit] External links
- FIS Profile
- Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)
- skifaster.net April 9, 2002 article clearing Botvinov and Hoffman.
1933 Sweden Per Erik Hedlund, Sven Utterström, Nils-Joel Englund, & Hjalmar Bergström
1934 Finland Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Martti Lappalainen, & Veli Saarinen
1935 Finland Mikko Husu, Klaes Karppinen, Väinö Liikkanen, & Sulo Nurmela
1937 Norway Annar Ryen, Oskar Fredriksen, Sigurd Røen, & Lars Bergendahl
1938 Finland Juho 'Jussi' Kurikkala, Martti Lauronen, Pauli Pitkänen, & Klaes Karppinen
1939 Finland Pauli Pitkänen, Olavi Alakulppi, Eino Olkinuora, & Klaes Karppinen
1950 Sweden Nils Täpp, Karl-Erik Åström, Martin Lundström, & Enar Josefsson
1954 Finland August Kiuru, Tapio Mäkelä, Arvo Viitanen, & Veikko Hakulinen
1958 Sweden Sixten Jernberg, Lennart Larsson, Sture Grahn, & Per-Erik Larsson
1962 Sweden Lars Olsson, Sture Grahn, Sixten Jernberg, & Assar Rönnlund
1966 Norway Odd Martinsen, Harald Grønningen, Ole Ellefsæter, & Gjermund Eggen
1970 Soviet Union Vladimir Voronkov, Valery Tarakanov, Fyodor Simashev & Vyacheslav Vedenin
1974 East Germany Gerd Hessler, Dieter Meinel, Gerhard Grimmer & Gert-Dietmar Klause
1978 Sweden Sven-Åke Lundbäck, Christer Johansson, Tommy Limby & Thomas Magnusson
1982 Norway Lars-Erik Eriksen, Ove Aunli, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, & Oddvar Brå and
1982 Soviet Union Vladimir Nikitin, Alexander Batyuk, Yuriy Burlakov, & Alexander Zavyalov
1985 Norway Arild Monsen, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, Tor Håkon Holte, & Ove Aunli
1987 Sweden Erik Östlund, Gunde Svan, Thomas Wassberg, & Torgny Mogren
1989 Sweden Christer Majbäck, Gunde Svan, Lars Håland, & Torgny Mogren
1991 Norway Øyvind Skaanes, Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, & Bjørn Dæhlie
1993 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Vegard Ulvang, Terje Langli, & Bjørn Dæhlie
1995 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard
1997 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard
1999 Austria Markus Gandler, Alois Stadlober, Mikhail Botvinov, & Christian Hoffmann
2001 Norway Frode Estil, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Thomas Alsgaard, & Tor Arne Hetland
2003 Norway Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Tore Ruud Hofstad, & Thomas Alsgaard
2005 Norway Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Frode Estil, Lars Berger, & Tore Ruud Hofstad
2007 Norway Eldar Rønning, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Lars Berger, & Petter Northug
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