Overview: WOC Teams 2009

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Team Russia WOC 2009 - 12 runners

Team Overview - Disciplines*

	Name	Sprint	Middle	Long	Relay
1.	Alexey Bortnik		36th place Qual: 4th place	26th place Qual: 9th place
2.	Sergey Detkov	Qual: 27th place
3.	Andrey Khramov	medal Qual: 7th place		39th place Qual: 4th place	medal
4.	Irina Mikhalko		20th place Qual: 5th place
5.	Julia Novikova		13rd place Qual: 4th place	DSQ Qual: 2nd place	6th place
6.	Leonid Novikov		16th place Qual: 4th place
7.	Valentin Novikov	12nd place Qual: 10th place	14th place Qual: 1st place		medal
8.	Irina Nyberg
9.	Tatyana Riabkina				6th place
10.	Alia Sitdikova	21st place Qual: 9th place		Qual: 19th place
11.	Dmitry Tsvetkov	Qual: DSQ		5th place Qual: 15th place	medal
12.	Galina Vinogradova	20th place Qual: 9th place		10th place Qual: 7th place	6th place

Note! The first 15 go to the final in the qualification races.

Detailed Team information

Alexey Bortnik

Club	IFK Mora (SWE)
Born date	06.05.1983
Info/Biography	Young russian who is constantly improving. Middle distance his best so far. First made his name through medals at JWOC 2003.Ran WOC 2006, but could not qualify to the finals on sprint or long. Not selected for WOC 2008.

Sergey Detkov

Club	Rasti-Kurikka (FIN)
Info/Biography	Running only sprint at WOC 2008 and could not qualify for the final.
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Andrey Khramov

Club	Hiisirasti (FIN) / SKVO Rostov na Don
Born date	17.01.1981
Info/Biography	Strong russian runner who surprised everybody by winning JWOC in Bulgaria as a 18-year old in 1999. Lives at the foot of the Kaukasus mountains, not far away form the Black sea. Well used to hot and humid conditions and tough climbs. Married to Nadia and one son, Alexander, born 2002. Competes in track and field regularly, his PB on 5000m is 14.05. Finished his studies in communication (traffic) in 2004 and has since the been a professional sportsman. His gold medal in Japan 2005 was Russias first ever in senior foot-orienteering. Won the relay for Russia in 2006 and 2007. Started the WOC 2008 with a sprint gold- his 4th WOC-gold. Will he be the first man with a gold in all four diciplins at WOC? He must at least wait to 2009 to take the missing middle distance. In 2009 Khramov has again been fighting Hubmann in the sprints, losing by a few seconds in WC-Finland, but winning by one second at World Games. WOC 2009 will be back in the same terrains he won the JWOC long distance in 2001.

Irina Mikhalko

Info/Biography

Currently nothing available.

Julia Novikova

Club	Delta (FIN)
Born date	09.11.1980
Info/Biography	The wife of Valentin Novikov (her maiden name is Sedina). Has been the second best Russian woman behind Riabkina. Normally very safe on the first leg in relays. Finished 3rd on the WC-middle race in Norway 2007. Running middle, long and relay at WOC 2008.
Videos

Leonid Novikov

Club	Delta (FIN)

Valentin Novikov

Club	Delta (FIN)
Born date	01.10.1974
Info/Biography	His breakthru was the gold medals at EOC in Ukraine 2000. Strong runner in continental forest, but often struggles on very long courses and hot weather. Have had problems with the russian federation and was omitted from the WOC 2005-team. Alledgely because he failed to report certain WADA-documents to the federation in time. In SUI 2003 he was dsq on the long distance qual because he was too late for the check-in time. His first WOC-gold came when he anchored his russian team to the relay gold in WOC 2006. Also won the EOC relay in 2008 and decided Jukola 2008 in favour of his team Delta. Married with national team member Julia (prev. Sedina). Younger brother Leonid also an eliterunner.
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Irina Nyberg

Info/Biography

Running only middle at WOC 2008.

Tatyana Riabkina

Club	SOIK Hellas (SWE)
Born date	03.05.1980
Info/Biography	Won two JWOC-gold under her maiden name, Pereliaeva. Married to Maxim Riabkine, inventer of the Orient-Show. The silver medal from WOC 2004 in Sweden is Tatianas (or Tanja as she seems to be called in Sweden) best effort so far. Impressed in Tiomila 2007 by anchoring her club Hellas to the victory. Won her first WC race on the middle distance in O-ringen in July 2007.

Alia Sitdikova

Info/Biography

Currently nothing available.

Dmitry Tsvetkov

Club	Angelniemen Ankkuri (FIN)
Info/Biography	Junior World Champion from Estonia 2003 showed his strength in Baltic terrain once again by surprisingly winning the long distance at EOC 2008. Changed club from OK Tisaren to Angelniemen Ankkuri ahead of 2009-season.

Galina Vinogradova

Info/Biography

Currently nothing available.