Pavel Krotov Explained

Pavel Krotov
Full Name:Pavel Vadimovich Krotov
Birth Date:24 April 1992
Birth Place:Yaroslavl, Russia
Nationality:Russian
Height:1.68 m
Club:Yaroslavl
Wins:2
Totalpodiums:6

Pavel Vadimovich Krotov (Russian: Павел Вадимович Кротов; 24 April 1992 – 25 March 2023)[1] was a Russian freestyle skier, specializing in aerials.[2]

Career

Krotov competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Russia. He placed 9th in the first qualifying round in the aerials, failing to advance. He subsequently placed 3rd in the second qualification round, enough to progress to the final. In the first jump of the three-jump final, he finished 10th, not enough to advance further.[3] [4]

As of April 2014, his best showing at the World Championships was 18th, in the 2011 aerials.[2]

Krotov made his World Cup debut in January 2011. As of April 2014, he had one World Cup victory, at Mont Gabriel in 2011–12. His best World Cup overall finish in aerials was 8th, in 2013–14.[2]

Death

On March 25, 2023, he died in his sleep, at the age of 30, from a brain hemorrhage.

World Cup podiums

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Individual podiums

SeasonDateLocationPlace
2011–1215 January 2012 Mont Gabriel, Canada 1st
2014–15align=left 20 December 2014 Beijing, China 2nd
2019–2015 February 2020 Moscow, Russia 1st
align=left 8 March 2020 Krasnoyarsk, Russia 2nd
2020–21align=left 4 December 2020 Ruka, Finland 2nd
align=left 16 January 2021 Yaroslavl, Russia 2nd

Team podiums

SeasonDateLocationPlaceTeammate(s)
2014–1521 February 2014 Beijing, China 2nd Veronika Korsunova
Ilya Burov
align=left 31 January 2015 Lake Placid, United States 3rd Veronika Korsunova
Ilya Burov
2015–1620 December 2015 Beijing, China 3rd Alexandra Orlova
Vasily Polenov
2019–2022 December 2019 Shimao Lotus Mountain, China 1st Liubov Nikitina
Maxim Burov

Notes and References

  1. https://sport.rambler.ru/handball/50442862-chempion-mira-po-fristaylu-pavel-krotov-umer-v-30-let/ Умер чемпион мира 2021 года фристайлист Павел Кротов
  2. http://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/athlete-biography.html?sector=FS&competitorid=152286 FIS Profile
  3. Web site: Sports Reference Profile. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417215740/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/kr/pavel-krotov-1.html. dead. 17 April 2020.
  4. Web site: Sochi2014.com profile . 19 March 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140319031655/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-pavel-krotov . 19 March 2014 .