Iurii PROKHOROV

ROC

Luge

Date of Birth: 11 Nov 1991

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Place of birth: DMITROV

Birth Country:

USSR

Residence: DMITROV

Residence Country:

Russian Federation

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Luge	Doubles ROC BOGDANOV Andrei / PROKHOROV Iurii	10

Schedule

Location	Event	Status
Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Doubles Training Run 1	Finished
Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Doubles Training Run 2	Finished
Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Doubles Training Run 3	Finished
Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Doubles Training Run 4	Finished
Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Doubles Training Run 5	Finished
Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Doubles Training Run 6	Finished
Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Doubles Run 1	Finished
Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Doubles Run 2	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

World Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Team Relay	2019	Winterberg, GER	2:24.116
6	Doubles Sprint	2020	Sochi, RUS	31.374
6	Doubles	2020	Sochi, RUS	1:39.720
7	Doubles	2019	Winterberg, GER	1:27.617
7	Doubles	2017	Innsbruck, AUT	1:19.684
11	Doubles Sprint	2019	Winterberg, GER	31.034
12	Doubles	2016	Koenigssee, GER	1:42.246
13	Doubles Sprint	2016	Koenigssee, GER	40.167
13	Doubles	2008	Oberhof, GER	1:28.173
13	Doubles	2007	Innsbruck, AUT	1:20.222
19	Doubles	2003	Sigulda, LAT	1:28.985

World Cup Rankings
Season	Doubles Sprint	Doubles
2021/22	5	5
2020/21	12	14
2019/20		8
2018/19		5
2017/18		18
2016/17		17
2015/16		16
2012/13		25
2010/11		22
2007/08		24

World Cup - Best Achievements
Season	Doubles	Doubles Sprint
2021/22	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd
2019/20	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 5th	2 x 4th
2018/19	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th	1 x 2nd, 1 x 5th

Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
Rank	Event	Season	Location
1	Doubles	2021/22	Sochi, RUS
2	Doubles	2021/22	Sochi, RUS
6	Doubles	2021/22	Sigulda, LAT
6	Doubles Sprint	2021/22	Sochi, RUS
6	Doubles Sprint	2021/22	Innsbruck, AUT
6	Doubles Sprint	2021/22	Sigulda, LAT
7	Doubles	2021/22	Innsbruck, AUT
8	Doubles	2021/22	Winterberg, GER
8	Doubles	2021/22	Altenberg, GER
9	Doubles	2021/22	St. Moritz, SUI
15	Doubles	2021/22	Yanqing, CHN
18	Doubles	2021/22	Oberhof, GER

Hobbies:

Football, cars, sport

Occupation:

Athlete, Sport instructor

Family:

Wife, Yana (married February 2021).

Languages spoken:

Russian

Club name:

Youth of Moscow

Coach:

National: Sergey Chudinov (RUS), Artyom Petrakov (RUS), Victor Kneib (RUS)
Personal: Olga Ryabova (RUS)

Position style:

Back

Other sports:

Weightlifting: Competes in the 77kg weight class. Met the standards for Master of Sport in Russia in his first year in the sport.

Debut:

2003 World Championships (Doubles, with Ivan Nevmerzhitski - 19th)
2021 World Cup in Yanqing (Doubles, with Andrei Bogdanov - 15th)

National team:

2014

Start:

Took up the sport by accident in 2004 when he meant to sign up for football. (rusluge.ru)

Reason:

"Because of the crazy adrenaline, unique emotions and noble risk." (rusluge.ru)

Philosophy:

"The road will be mastered by walking." (rusluge.ru)

Award:

Master of Sport in Russia (2007)

General Interest

PARTNERS
Began his international career in 2003 briefly competing with Ivan Nevmerzhitski. Competed with Denis Groshev starting in the 2010/11 season and then with Vladislav Yuzhakov in 2015/16 for six seasons. Together, he and Yuzhakov won the gold medal in the relay at the 2019 World Championships (with Tatiana Ivanova and Semen Pavlichenko) and placed third in doubles at the 2020 European Championships. In 2021/22, partnered with Andrei Bogdanov. In their second and third World Cups, held on their home ice in Sochi, placed second and then first in doubles and won the relay with Viktoriia Demchenko and Pavlichenko. (rusluge.ru)

Milestones

Two seventh-place results at the World Championships in doubles (2017, 2019). In 2020, finished sixth at the World Championships (Sochi) in both doubles and the sprint.

With Vladislav Yuzhakov, placed fifth in doubles and sprint in the overall season standings in 2018/19. In 2019, the tandem ranked fourth in sprint and eighth in doubles.

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/yura.prokhorov

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event

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