Dmitry Vladimirovich Lobkov (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Лобков; born 2 February 1981 in

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) is a Russian

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who specialises in the shortest distances, with the 500 metres being his favourite.

Career

At the

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he achieved the silver medal at this distance, only allowing

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to be faster. He became Russian Sprint Champion three times in a row, and was, because of his recently shown progress, a favourite to win an

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medal in the 500 metres distance at the

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. But in the summer of 2005, when his trainer

Sergey Klevchenya Sergey Konstantinovich Klevchenya (russian: Серге́й Константинович Клевченя, born January 21, 1971 in Barnaul) is a Russian speed skater who competed for the Unified Team in the 1992 Winter Olympics and for Russia in ...

organised a football-game, Lobkov got injured. His preparation for the Olympics was therefore too short. In his favourite 500 metres distance Lobkov ranked himself in fourteenth place. On 12 January 2007 in

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, Lobkov improved his 2003 personal best of 34.51 seconds, set at the Olympic rink in

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, down to a record level of 34.35. At the time, only the two Japanese skaters

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(34.30) and

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(34.32) had ever skated faster. At the 2007 World Sprint Championship in

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, Lobkov won bronze and silver medals at the two 500-m races, and was ranked fourth overall, after

Lee Kyou-hyuk Lee Kyou-hyuk (, born 16 March 1978) is a South Korean retired long track speed skater who specializes in the 500 and 1,000 meters. He was the 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011 World Sprint Speed Skating Champion and the 2011 World Champion for 500 m. ...

Pekka Koskela Pekka Koskela (born 29 November 1982) is a Finnish speed skater, specialising on the sprint distances 500 m and 1000 m. He is the former world record holder on the 1000 m with the time 1:07.00. In December 2001 he set a junior world record on th ...

and

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. Lobkov missed the overall bronze medal by the slim margin of 0.060 points.

References

External links

Dmitry Lobkov at SkateResults.com
1981 births Russian male speed skaters Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skaters for Russia People from Murom Living people Sportspeople from Vladimir Oblast {{Russia-speed-skating-bio-stub