Evgenii Klimov

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Evgenii Klimov
Евге́ний Дми́триевич Кли́мов
Evgenii Klimov, FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, Four Hills Tournament, Bischofshofen 2017.
Country Russia
Full nameEvgenii Dmitriyevich Klimov
Born (1994-02-03) 3 February 1994 (age 30)
Perm, Russia
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Ski clubGBU TSTOVS
Moskovskaya oblast Ski s.
Personal best237 m (778 ft)
Planica, 11 December 2020
World Cup career
Seasons2013–2015 (nor. combined)
2016–present (ski jumping)
Indiv. starts17 (nordic combined)
125 (ski jumping)
Indiv. podiums3 (ski jumping)
Indiv. wins1 (ski jumping)
Team starts6 (nordic combined)
33 (ski jumping)
Medal record
Women's ski jumping
Representing  ROC
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Beijing Mixed team
Updated on 6 March 2022.

Evgenii Dmitriyevich Klimov (Russian: Евге́ний Дми́триевич Кли́мов; born 3 February 1994) is a Russian ski jumper and a former Nordic combined skier. He is the first Russian in history who won an individual ski jumping World Cup event for men. He also took the Grand Prix 2018 overall title in ski jumping. He also has the national record for the longest ski jump with 237m. At the 2022 Olympics, he was part of the mixed team which won the silver medal.

Career

Nordic combined

Klimov competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Russia. He placed 45th in the normal hill Nordic combined event, after being 3rd in the ski jumping portion, and 9th in the team event.[1][2]

As of September 2014, his best showing at the World Championships is 12th, in the 2013 team event. His best individual finish is 49th, in the 2013 large hill event.

Klimov made his World Cup debut in February 2013. His best individual finish is 30th, at a large hill event at Kuusamo in 2013/14. His best World Cup overall finish is 80th, in 2013/14.

Ski jumping

He ended his Nordic combined career and switched to a ski jumping career in 2015. He won two medals in ski jumping at the 2015 Winter Universiade in Osrblie, Slovakia.[3] He made a World Cup debut in 2015/16 season.

Klimov won the 2018 FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix. He then won his first World Cup event in Wisła, becoming the first Russian to achieve that feat.[4]

World Cup

Standings

 Season  Overall 4H SF RA W6 T5 P7
2015/16 56 41 — N/A N/A N/A N/A
2016/17 17 12 23 40 N/A N/A N/A
2017/18 65 43 — 34 — N/A 44
2018/19 12 15 10 10 8 N/A 22
2019/20 31 30 — 13 — 32 N/A
2020/21 35 34 25 N/A — N/A 30
2021/22 32 19 — N/A N/A

Individual wins

No. Season Date Location Hill Size
1 2018/19 18 November 2018   Poland Wisła Malinka HS134 LH

Individual starts (125)

Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Points
2015/16 Klingenthal Lillehammer Lillehammer Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Engelberg Engelberg Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Willingen Zakopane Sapporo Sapporo Trondheim Vikersund Vikersund Vikersund Lahti Lahti Kuopio Almaty Almaty Wisła Titisee-Neustadt Planica Planica Planica 21
32 35 35 18 46 – – 28 43 q q 41 28 – – 50 41 q q 46 q – 29 38 – – – – –
2016/17 Kuusamo Kuusamo Klingenthal Lillehammer Lillehammer Engelberg Engelberg Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Wisła Wisła Zakopane Willingen Oberstdorf Oberstdorf Sapporo Sapporo Pyeongchang Pyeongchang Oslo Trondheim Vikersund Planica Planica 382
45 12 16 39 20 18 16 13 18 3 16 38 19 10 11 17 18 16 42 12 7 – 12 36 29 19
2017/18 Wisła Kuusamo Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Titisee-Neustadt Engelberg Engelberg Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Tauplitz Zakopane Willingen Willingen Lahti Oslo Lillehammer Trondheim Vikersund Planica Planica 7
49 q 48 39 q – – 44 26 – – – – – – 29 50 q 32 33 q –
2018/19 Wisła Kuusamo Kuusamo Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Engelberg Engelberg Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Val di Fiemme Val di Fiemme Zakopane Sapporo Sapporo Oberstdorf Oberstdorf Oberstdorf Lahti Willingen Willingen Oslo Lillehammer Trondheim Vikersund Planica Planica 592
1 31 26 11 8 5 8 20 16 19 26 – – 11 – – 23 29 2 – 7 13 22 11 6 14 11 10
2019/20 Wisła Kuusamo Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Klingenthal Engelberg Engelberg Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Val di Fiemme Val di Fiemme Titisee-Neustadt Titisee-Neustadt Zakopane Sapporo Sapporo Willingen Tauplitz Tauplitz Râșnov Râșnov Lahti Lahti Oslo Lillehammer 140
40 – 41 50 37 16 37 22 22 q 39 22 q 11 45 24 38 28 – – – 23 35 19 30 24 7
2020/21 Wisła Ruka Ruka Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Engelberg Engelberg Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Titisee-Neustadt Titisee-Neustadt Zakopane Lahti Willingen Willingen Klingenthal Klingenthal Zakopane Zakopane Râșnov Planica Planica Planica 110
31 – – 7 29 17 36 26 50 47 23 41 19 – – – – – – 27 29 20 – 15 –
2021/22 Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Ruka Ruka Wisła Klingenthal Klingenthal Engelberg Engelberg Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Bischofshofen Bischofshofen Bischofshofen Zakopane Titisee-Neustadt Titisee-Neustadt Willingen Willingen Lahti Lahti Lillehammer Oslo Oslo Oberstdorf Oberstdorf Planica Planica 163
20 q 28 16 30 36 46 14 5 15 19 33 30 33 29 24 26 – – 14 22 – – –

References

  1. ^ "Sports Reference Profile". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06.
  2. ^ "Sochi2014.com profile". 19 March 2014. Archived from the original on 19 March 2014.
  3. ^ "Wuni15 profile". 27 January 2015.
  4. ^ Климов — первый россиянин, выигравший этап КМ по прыжкам на лыжах с трамплина