Dmitry Vyacheslavovich Trunenkov (russian: Дмитрий Вячеславович Труненков; born 19 April 1984) is a Russian
bobsled
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der who has competed since the early 2000s.
Career
He won the silver medal in the four-man event at the
2008 FIBT World Championships in
Altenberg, Germany
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Geography
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. He won a gold medal at the 2009
Bobsleigh European Championship
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in
St. Moritz,
Switzerland and three European silver medals, all in the four-man event.
Trunenkov originally took up sprinting whilst at university
before switching to bobsleigh at the age of 21.
At the
2010 Winter Olympics
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, Trunenkov crashed during the four-man event.
Trunenkov has a degree in industrial and civil construction from Krasnoyarsk State Academy of Architecture and Construction,
which became part of the
Siberian Federal University
Siberian Federal University (russian: Сибирский федеральный университет, ''Sibirskiĭ federalʹnyĭ universitet'', often shortened to SibFU, СФУ) is a multidisciplinary university located in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia ...
in 2006. He holds the title of
Merited Master of Sport in Russia. He is married to Elena and they have a daughter, Dana.
On 31 January 2017, the
Russian Anti-Doping Agency
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announced that Trunenkov had been banned for four years from April 2016 due to a doping violation.
Trunenkov was part of a four-man Russian team who originally won gold at the
2014 Winter Olympics but was then disqualified and stripped of medals because
Alexandr Zubkov tested positive for doping. On 27 November 2017, Trunenkov was found guilty in anti-doping rule violations, disqualified and declared ineligible for future Olympic games.
On 1 February 2018, the CAS removed the sanctions from
Alexey Negodaylo and Dmitry Trunenkov in bobsleigh, but upheld them on their teammates
Alexandr Zubkov and
Alexey Voyevoda.
[https://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Media_Release__decision_RUS_IOC_.pdf ]
References
External links
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Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
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1984 births
Bobsledders at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic bobsledders of Russia
Sportspeople from Krasnoyarsk
Russian male bobsledders
Russian sportspeople in doping cases
Doping cases in bobsleigh
Competitors stripped of Winter Olympics medals