Viktor Pasichnyk Explained

Viktor Pasichnyk
Fullname:Viktor Pasichnyk
Birth Date:2 December 1992
Birth Place:Kremenets, Ukraine
Club:Kremenets Ski School
Height:6ft
Weight:158.7 lbs
Seasons:2013-
Wins:0
Updated:February 2, 2018

Viktor Viktorovich Pasichnyk (Віктор Вікторович Пасічник) (born December 2, 1992, in Kremenets, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian Nordic combined skier. He participated at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.

Career

He began to compete at World Cup in 2012-13 season. In his first race in Almaty, Kazakhstan on February 9, 2013, he was 36th. Next day he was 34th. That season was over for him without any World Cup point. In pre-Olympic season he had more World Cup starts. On January 5, 2014, Pasichnyk was 19th in Russian Chaikovskiy which is his best result so far.

Viktor participated at 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. He was 30th in LH competition and 42nd in NH competition.

After 2014 Olympics he didn't actively participate at World Cup having started just in several races. He had good results at Winter Universiades: in 2015 he was 4th in NH competition, and 5th in 2017 in team competition. In 2017-18 season he took part in 5 individual and one team races but didn't manage to earn any point.

Before the 2018 Winter Olympics Viktor set his personal best in the World Cup which was 16th in Val di Fiemme, Italy, on January 13, 2018, and later he repeated this achievement in Hakuba, Japan, on February 3, 2018. He gained Olympic quota for the 2018 Games.[1] In Pyeongchang he finished 30th and 23rd.

Career results

Winter Olympics

Year Place NH LH
30
23

World Championships

Year Place NH LH TS
14
12
14
13

World Cup

Rankings

Season Overall
60
57
68

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ukrainian team for 2018 Winter Olympics.