If not for the disqualification, today Loginov would have become one of the best. Not me, the famous biathlete and coach Alexander Privalov says this. Yes, we can see for ourselves - at the European Championships, the athlete won three gold and one silver medals. (Irina Starykh, who also returned after punishment, three gold and one bronze).

Then, when the prospects of the same Loginov seemed limitless and he was called the “joker” of the national team the day before Olympic Games, I asked at one of the stages of the World Cup, what can stop him in an unstoppable movement forward? It is no coincidence that he was called the most gifted of the young. “So far, nothing. I do what I like."

"Bye" quickly flew off to the side, and "nothing" turned into EPO.

November 26, 2013 - a few days before the start of the Olympic season, Alexander Loginov passed the test. The test raised doubts, it was decided to check it with a new method later. Exactly one year later, reanalysis showed a positive result for recombinant erythropoietin. On July 10, 2015, the athlete received a disqualification until the end of November 2016, two years were deducted from the moment the sample was rechecked.

Loginov's punishment was perceived by many in Russia with great chagrin. Good guy. How did you get in? Why did he let this happen? Trusting who? What brute (mild variant of resentment) gave him the dope? (All these questions also apply to the punishment of Irina Starykh).

Silent and silent Sasha Loginov. He did not say anything and does not say anything. He carried some nonsense about some kind of treatment, which caused only laughter and evil, impotent irony. Not the world champion Tyson Gay, in short, turned out to be. I would have handed over a hand that gives doping, like a world champion - my own coach, you see, and also received only a year of disqualification.

I couldn't. Or upbringing did not allow, or some other reasons. But by doing so, he did not knock out the trump cards from the hands of the especially irreconcilable. The world doesn't care about his reasons for not telling the truth.

And it is impossible not to think: even if we were to return to the past even now and punish those responsible for the disqualification of Loginov and Starykh, that would be right. They punished themselves. The matter is not new for our biathlon, it has been dragging on for a long time. Irina Starykh and Ekaterina Yuryeva passed positive tests just for EPO, and before them - Dmitry Yaroshenko and Albina Akhatova. True, those samples “fired” immediately, and in the case of Loginov there was a delay of a year. There will probably be a big scandal. And there are many names.

And it still rumbles. So I want to say: sooner or later. But “early” will no longer work, in any case, it’s too late, but it will rumble.

We are silent, we are silent again. And what do we do? Again we throw Loginov on the embrasure. It is a shame for him to slurp with a full spoon, to look into the eyes of rival accusers. He - to listen to all these arguments about the deceiver. And to run - to him.

And can we tell how it was, who is to blame, partly freeing Loginov and Starykh from harsh pressure, without losing in such a tense for sports Russia even more time? No guarantees.

The apotheosis of reasoning on the topic - to be or not to be Loginov and Starykh at the heart of the World Cup - "congratulations" to Loginov on his 25th birthday from Martin Fourcade. In the comments to the congratulations from the RRF and listing the achievements of Alexander at the starts, the amazing biathlete Fourcade wrote: “And he received a two-year disqualification for EPO. Don't forget about one of his main trophies!".

Martin Fourcade must have read a lot of comments. Apparently, those who wrote to him “in the return line” hit the target, the biathlete deleted his own words the next day. Not the first, however, words addressed to Loginov, probably, and not the last. After all, as soon as Alexander came out of disqualification, the Frenchman could no longer remain silent. “Unfortunately, one Russian athlete who competed in the IBU Cup was caught doping only 2 years ago. I sincerely believe that managers and coaches Russian Federation biathlon send the wrong signal, allowing him to compete again at this troubled time.”

Yes, it couldn't be more problematic. Of course, IBU President Besseberg said: all athletes have the same rights - if the punished have served their disqualification, they have the right to compete. But what awaits the athletes who have served their sentences if they appear at the starts of the World Cup is probably not from a positive range of emotions.

Under the pressure of those same biathletes with an active civil position international union biathletes decided to hold an extraordinary congress to adopt new anti-doping rules before the 2017 World Championships. It will be held on February 8 in Hochfilzen, Austria, and will once again discuss the issue of doping for possible decision-making before the World Cup. 170 biathletes who have signed an appeal to the IBU demanding further tightening of anti-doping rules intend to receive a response to it. The word "boycott" is in the air of biathlon.

And on February 9, the biathlon world championship begins. The last hours of staffing are coming. The team needs old and logins. And they deserved the World Cup according to the sports selection principle. What to do? Our sporting principle of selection will not be respected by rivals who actively write and demand. Punish Loginov and Starykh again?

There is a right to make a mistake. At least, so far in sports - such rules may soon prohibit even those who stumble once to perform soon. But there should be no right to set up one's own. Alexander Loginov and Irina Starykh convincingly won the European Championship. Would be happy. And in your hearts you think - it would be better to run average this year, not shine. True, next year is the Olympic year. And so it turns out, wherever you poke, we have holes everywhere. Shut up - fate.

Alexander Loginov is a Russian biathlete, on whom coaches and fans rely great expectations. In 2013, the athlete - a member of the junior team - participated in the World Cup in Sochi, where he showed excellent results.

A bolt from the blue for Loginov's fans was the disqualification of the biathlete in the summer of 2015. But Alexander returned to the sport in November 2016 and proved that his victories are real. Today he is a five-time European champion among juniors, bronze medalist of the 2017 World Championships and World Cup stages, Honored Master of Sports of Russia.

Childhood and youth

The future biathlon star flared up in Saratov in January 1992. Alexander Loginov did not dream of becoming an athlete as a child, but he was fond of sports. He gave preference to karate, in winter he went skiing with his friends.

The teenager thought about biathlon at the age of 13, then he entered the children's youth school Olympic reserve in his native city, where he fell into the hands of a talented coach Ekaterina Nikolaevna Khaliullina. A year later, in the Sports School of the Olympic Reserve, the guy was proud of the results: having fulfilled the standards, he became a candidate for master of sports in biathlon and cross-country skiing.

From now on sports biography Alexandra Loginova is rapidly gaining momentum. In the list of achievements of the young biathlete, prizes from regional and all-Russian competitions. Saratov was noticed by the coaches of the main team.

Loginov calls the Norwegian biathlon star an idol. Sasha was rooting for him in childhood, catching himself wanting to be like a legend. Like most colleagues, in his youth, the guy thought about a second profession that was not related to sports. He became a student at the local agricultural university, choosing the specialty of a manager.

Biathlon

In 2010, Alexander Loginov performed as part of the national team at the World Junior Championships in Sweden. For a beginner, the guy started perfectly: in the personal race he became fourth and fifth, coming very close to the podium. The 18-year-old biathlete managed to win back in the relay - he became the leader.

Soon Alexander became the king of the junior level. In 2011, in the Czech Nove Mesto, he took 2 third places in personal races, and was in the lead in the relay. In 2012 and 2013 he won individual races at the World Championship in Obertilliach, Austria, and at two European Championships - in Osrblie, Slovakia and Bansko, Bulgaria.

Half of the gold out of 18 medals won - this is the result of 6 tournaments in which Alexander Loginov participated. The biathlete surprisingly quickly, as for a junior, showed himself in the adult team.

In February 2013, at the World Cup in Holmenkollen, Norway, Loginov became the best among Russian colleagues, taking 5th position in the sprint race. A day later, in the pursuit race, Alexander won 3rd place. In March of the same year, the athlete took the 4th step in the 18 km mega-mass start, and won bronze in the 12.5 km pursuit.

Soon, an athlete from Samara was included in the relay at the Olympics in Sochi, where, thanks to Alexander Loginov, the Russian biathletes quartet won. Toward the end of 2013, the biathlete, along with, took the lead in the relay at the 3rd stage of the French World Cup in Annecy.

2014 was also a year of great success. Alexander Loginov took 2nd place at the 8th stage in Kontiolahti (Finland). This is the best result of an athlete in individual races of the World Cup. And in March of the same year, the biathlete repeated the result, taking the 2nd step in the pursuit.

but adult career, launched so successfully, was interrupted on takeoff. According to the results of a doping test made on November 26, 2013, Alexander Loginov was suspended from competitions and training in November 2014. The athlete was disqualified until November 2016.

The International Biathlon Union found a prohibited drug, erythropoietin, in Alexander's sample. Loginov's sports results from the moment the sample was taken were invalidated.

In November 2016, the period of disqualification of Alexander Loginov ended, and the biathlete began training and competitions with increased zeal. Next year on January championship Europe in the Polish city of Duszniki-Zdroj, he won the individual race and the pursuit race, received silver for the sprint race. In the mixed relay, Loginov won gold.

Biathletes Alexander Loginov and who returned to biathlon after being disqualified for doping became the main characters of the European Championship.

Another award awaited the athlete at the Biathlon World Championships in Austrian Hochfilzen. At the mixed relay stage, a biathlete in the Russian team, which also included, and Anton Shipulin, became a bronze medalist.

Personal life

The second half of Alexander Loginov understands her husband perfectly, because Margarita Yarostova is a biathlete herself. On her account, she won the junior championship of the country in summer biathlon. Margarita is also a candidate master of sports, she has 2 bronze medals at the European cross-country championship.

The athletes met when their career was just gaining momentum. Margarita is 3 years younger than Alexander. After several years, the romance of Yarostova and Loginov culminated in a trip to the registry office. At that time, Rita was 19, and Sasha was 22.

The wedding took place in the summer of 2014. For the sake of such an important event in life, Alexander Loginov was given a week off, because at that time the groom was expected in Novosibirsk, where shooting training took place.

The celebration took place in his native Saratov, and 80 relatives and friends of the couple were invited to it. The head coach of the Russian men's team Alexander Kasperovich and the first mentor of Margarita and Alexander Ekaterina Khaliullina came to the wedding.

Loginov's wife is from the Samara region, the town of Balakovo. I became interested in biathlon at the age of 11. Margarita, like her husband, graduated from the Saratov Agricultural University. The girl's hobby is driving a car.

The disqualification of Alexander Loginov also hit his personal life. There were rumors that the young couple divorced. At one time, the athlete and his wife did not comment on the information, but in 2017, in an interview, Alexander spoke about the termination of relations with Margarita. The divorce was painless, as the family of biathletes did not have time to have children.

Sports commentators and fans Russian biathlon now Alexander Loginov is tipped to be the leader in the national team in the light of the expected completion of his career by Anton Shipulin. The athlete's falls and misses are attributed to his excessive diligence.

Awards and achievements

• 2017 - bronze medal at the World Championships in Hochfilzen
• 2017 - 3 gold and silver medals at the European Championship in Duszniki-Zdrój
• 2018 - 2 silver and gold medals at the European Championships in Val Ridanna
• 2018 - 2 bronze medals at the World Cup in Pokljuka

11.03.2019

Loginov Alexander Viktorovich

Russian Biathlete

Honored Master of Sports

Four-time European Champion

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Russian biathlete. Honored Master of Sports. Silver medalist of the World Championship in sprint. Four-time European champion. Champion of Russia. Four-time World Champion
among juniors. Five-time European Champion among juniors.

Alexander Loginov was born on January 31, 1992 in the city of Saratov. As a child, the boy did not dream of becoming an athlete, but he was fond of sports. He gave preference to karate, in winter he went skiing with his friends. The teenager thought about biathlon at the age of thirteen, at the same time he entered the children's youth school of the Olympic reserve in his native city, where he fell into the hands of a talented coach Ekaterina Nikolaevna Khaliullina. A year later, the guy was proud of the results: having fulfilled the standards, he became a candidate for master of sports in biathlon and cross-country skiing.

From that moment on, the sports biography of Alexander Loginov is rapidly gaining momentum. Prize-winning places from regional and all-Russian competitions appear in the list of achievements of the young biathlete. Saratov was noticed by the coaches of the main team.

Like most of his colleagues, in his youth, the guy thought about a second profession that was not related to sports and became a student at the local agricultural university, choosing the specialty of a manager.

In the 2012 season, he won the sprint at the tournament, a year later he became the second in the sprint race. In March 2012, he made his first appearance at the adult international level as part of the Russian national team at the 2012 IBU Cup in Altenberg, where he took fourth place in the individual race, and finished second in the sprint and pursuit. He was a participant in the "Race of Champions - 2013", where, together with Miriam Gessner, he took tenth place.

At the end of March 2013, at the Open Cup of Russia for the Prizes of the Governor of the Tyumen Region, he took fourth place in the 18 km Mega Mass Start, and then Alexander won a bronze medal in the 12.5 km pursuit.

The debut in the World Cup took place on February 28, 2013 in the sprint race in the city of Holmenkollen, where the biathlete became the best among Russian athletes, finishing in fifth place. A day later, in the pursuit race, he took third place. The next day, in the mass start, he was content with fifteenth place.

In early March 2013, at the World Cup stage in the city of Sochi, he was in twelfth place in the sprint race, and then the next day he was included in the relay team for the second stage. When shooting from a prone position, he failed to close one target out of five, using eight rounds, and ran a penalty loop. Nevertheless, he was able to win back some of the lost time and helped the team win the relay.

In December of the same year, in the relay at the third stage of the 2014 World Cup, Alexander, along with Ivan Cherezov, Evgeny Garanichev and Anton Shipulin, took first place. According to the final results, Loginov was included in the Olympic team and the athlete took part in the individual race at the 2014 Olympics, in which he took thirtieth place.

At the eighth stage in Finnish Kontiolahti on March 15, 2014, following the results of the sprint race, Alexander climbed to the second step of the podium, showing his best result in personal World Cup races. In the city of Holmenkollen on March 22, 2014, he repeated his best result, taking second place in the pursuit.

At the end of January 2017, Alexander Loginov became the winner of the individual race and the silver winner of the sprint race at the European Championship in the Polish city of Duszniki-Zdrój. He also won the pursuit race at the European Championship. In the mixed relay at the same Login Championship, together with Irina Starykh, Svetlana Sleptsova and Alexei Volkova, he won another gold medal.

On March 10, 2019, Russian biathlete Loginov won silver in the sprint at the World Championships, which takes place in Sweden. Alexander did not make a single mistake. The athlete lost only to the Norwegian biathlete Johannes Be 13.7 seconds.

Athlete height: 177 cm; weight: 70 kg.

Sports Achievements of Alexander Loginov

Silver medalist of the World Championship in sprint in Sweden - 2019

Bronze medalist of the World Championship (2017 - mixed relay).

European champion (2017 - 20 km individual race, mixed relay; 2017, 2018 - 12.5 km pursuit). Silver medalist of the European Championships (2017, 2018 - 10 km sprint; 2018 - mixed relay).

Champion of Russia (2018 - 20 km individual race, 10 km sprint). Silver (2018 - 4x7.5 km relay) and bronze (2017 - 15 km mass start, 4x7.5 km relay) medalist of the Russian championships.

Silver medalist of the IBU Cup (2017 - overall). Winner (2017 - 20 km individual; 2018 - 12.5 km pursuit) and silver medalist (2017 - 7.5 km sprint, 12.5 km pursuit) of the IBU Small Cups.

25-year-old Russian biathlete Alexander Loginov is considered one of the country's most promising athletes. He showed good results even as a junior, becoming the European champion in the youth team of Russia - five times and the world champion - four times. Having matured to an adult team, Loginov was the winner in the 2011-2012 Izhevsk Rifle sprint, and in 2013 he won a bronze medal in the 12.5-kilometer pursuit race. In 1013, Alexander made his debut in the World Cup and was fifth in the Holmenkollen sprint race, overtaking all teammates. Despite not the most brilliant results at the Sochi Winter Olympics, he is nevertheless among the best biathletes in his sport and managed to make some impressive victories in early 2017, after being disqualified in 2015 by the IBU. The wife of Alexander Loginov is also an athlete.

Margarita Yarostova understands her husband well, because biathlon is a familiar and favorite sport for her. She was the winner of the Russian championship in summer biathlon among juniors and a candidate for master of sports when, at the age of nineteen, she became the bride of Alexander. In addition, Margarita in 2013 received two bronze medals at the European cross-country championship in Estonia. The lovers have been dating for several years and their marriage was just a matter of time: it is especially difficult for athletes over time in their personal lives. Sometimes spouses are separated by competitions and training camps - most often, at the most inopportune moment. And on that June day of 2014, joyful for the newlyweds, the young groom was supposed to be present at the shooting camp in Novosibirsk, but he was given a few days off.

The celebration took place in the vicinity of Alexander's hometown - Saratov and was attended by about 80 guests. In addition to the numerous relatives of the newlyweds, the head coach of the Russian men's team Alexander Kasperovich and the first sports mentor of Loginov and Yarostova, Ekaterina Khaliullina, were invited to the wedding. To Alexander's great regret, his teammates did not have the opportunity to come to this holiday. Having celebrated their marriage, the young people could not even go on a honeymoon trip: Loginov was expected in the Perm Territory at the training camp. Three weeks before the wedding - demobilization from the ranks of the Russian army, a week after the wedding - departure to the team: in the summer, Alexander is waiting for the championships of Russia. Such is fate!

“My wife, of course, knew perfectly well what she was getting into. In addition, Margarita herself is engaged in biathlon and understands that frequent separations are common things in the life of a professional athlete, ”Loginov commented on their upcoming separation seven days after the wedding. No matter how sad it may look, Margarita really understands that sport life obeys completely different laws than ordinary and discipline in it is above all. She has been involved in biathlon since the age of 11, having become interested in it in her childhood, spent in the city of Balakovo, Saratov Region. When Yarostova moved from the junior team to the senior level, she became a student at the Saratov State Agrarian University. Student life also tends to separate lovers.

How the Loginov family survived Alexander's two-year disqualification in July of the same year due to the illegal drug found in his samples - doping, is unknown. But rumors that the athlete divorced his wife were not confirmed. In November 2016, Loginov's term of deprivation of the right to sports activities ended and he began to compete with increased zeal. Training, the athlete, of course, did not cancel and appeared at the January 2017 European Championships in Dusnik-Zdroj, in great shape. He won the individual event, took the silver medal in the sprint and won the pursuit. His last award in this tournament was gold medal in the mixed relay, which included four members of the Russian team. According to some reports, the athlete himself and the wife of Alexander Loginov now live in Tyumen, where they are provided with all the conditions for successful preparation for future competitions.