Aleksei Sergeyevich Pushkarev (russian: Алексей Сергеевич Пушкарёв; born 4 November 1986), also known as Aleksey Pushkaryov, is a Russian

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Career

Pushkarev competed in the

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

for Russia. He teamed with driver

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and Ilvir Huzin as the Russia-2 bobsledding team in the four-man event, finishing fourth, missing out on the bronze medal position by three-hundredths of a second. As of April 2014, his best showing at the

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is 11th, coming in the four-man event in

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. Pushkarev made his

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debut in December 2012. As of April 2014, he has two World Cup podium finishes, a pair of bronze medals in 2013-14. On 29 November 2017, he was disqualified for doping.

World Cup Podiums

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