Dmitry Fyodorovich Stepushkin (russian: Дмитрий Фёдорович Стёпушкин; 3 September 1975 – 30 June 2022) was a Russian
bobsledder
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder ...
who competed from 2000. He won three medals in the four-man event at the
FIBT World Championships
The IBSF World Championships (known as the FIBT World Championships until 2015), part of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, have taken place on an annual basis since 1930. Starting with 2002, championships of non-Winter Olympi ...
with two silvers (
2005,
2008
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) and a bronze (
2003).
Stepushkin also competed in three
Winter Olympics
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, earning his best finish of ninth in the four-man event twice (
2006,
2010 – tie).
Stepushkin died on 30 June 2022, at the age of 46.
References
External links
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Dmitry Stepushkin: NBC profile for the 2010 Winter Olympics*
1975 births
2022 deaths
Russian male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders of Russia
Bobsledders at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Voronezh
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