Sergei Alifirenko

Russian sport shooter

Sergei Alifirenko

Personal information

Born

(1959-01-21) 21 January 1959 (age 65)

Medal record

Men's shooting

Representing Russia
Olympic Games
	2000 Sydney	25 m rapid fire pistol
	2004 Athens	25 m rapid fire pistol

Sergei Gennadievich Alifirenko (Russian: Серге́й Геннадиевич Алифиренко, born 21 January 1959) is a Russian pistol shooter, originally from Armenia, specializing in the 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol event.

He was born in Kirovakan.

Career

His greatest accomplishment is the gold medal from the 2000 Olympics. Since the rules for the event changed on 1 January 2005, Alifirenko has been most successful in his adaptation to them. He won both the European Championships and the World Cup Final in 2005, and has held several world records. After a bronze medal at the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships and a gold medal at the pre-Olympic World Cup competition in Beijing in April 2008, it was a setback for the Russian team when he had to withdraw from the Olympics due to eye illness.^[1]

Doping scandal

In October 2008 Alifirenko was suspended for 2 years after he failed a drug test for dexamethasone doping.^[2]^[3]

References

^ "Sydney Olympic champion Alifirenko to miss Beijing due to eye illness_English_Xinhua". Archived from the original on 2008-08-24. Retrieved 2008-08-06.
^ "Shooting gold-winner Alifirenko gets doping ban". ESPN.com. 2008-12-10. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
^ "Shooting-Russia's former Olympic champion banned for doping". Reuters. 2008-12-10. Retrieved 2022-04-26.