Ivan Aleksandrovich Skobrev (russian: Иван Александрович Скобрев; born 8 February 1983 in Khabarovsk) is a Russian

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Career

At the

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, he won the bronze medal in the

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as well as the silver medal in the

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. He is the 2011 European and World Allround Champion. At the 2006 European Championships he finished in fifth place. He qualified for four distances for the

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. He finished eleventh in the

, sixth in the

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and

and fifth in the team pursuit. In December 2017, he was one of eleven Russian athletes who were banned for life from the Olympics by the

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, after doping offences at the 2014 Winter Olympics. The ban was subsequently overturned on appeal to the court of arbitration for sport (CAS).

Personal records

To put these personal records in perspective, the ''WR'' column lists the official world records on the dates that Skobrev skated his personal records. With a score of 146.008 points, Skobrev is in 10th place on the Adelskalender as of March 10, 2019. He was in fifth place most of the time from February 12, 2011, to December 3, 2017.

References

External links

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Ivan Skobrev at SpeedSkatingStats.com

Ivan Skobrev at SSN.info

Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database

Historical World Records
''International Skating Union''.
Photos of Ivan Skobrev
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