Aleksandr DENISYEV

PARTNER
His partnership with Vladisov Antonov began while the pair were still at school. "At the beginning of the school year, we were writing an essay on how we had spent the summer. My friend wrote that he had been luge sliding over the holidays. I was so envious that I also wanted to try it, so he took me to the club. That classmate was Vlad Antonov. Together, we have come from school to the World Championships. In no way can we let each other down." (Info 2018)

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At the 2020 World Championships in Sochi, he and partner Vladislav Antonov won Russian Federation's first doubles gold medal in the sprint over Italians Emanuel Rieder/Simon Kainzwaldner and Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt (GER). They also took the silver medal in the doubles event.

In 2020 at the European Championships, became the first doubles team representing the Russian Federation to win a gold medal. Yevgeny Belousov/Alexander Belyakov - representing the Soviet Union - won the event in 1986. In 2018, Antonov/Denisiev also combined with Tatiana Ivanova and Semen Pavlichenko to win the continental championship in the relay.

In 2018/19, Antonov/Denisiev became the first doubles team from the Russian Federation to win a World Cup stage in their victory in Sochi to close out the season. Previously, Belousov/Belyakov - again, under the flag of the USSR - won the World Cup in Sarajevo in December 1987.