Alexander Vladimirovich Tretyakov

Born on April 19, 1985 in Krasnoyarsk. He was born into a sports family: his mother was involved in athletics at the amateur level, competing in sprints in hurdles, his father was involved in football, both sisters are engaged in skeleton. After graduating from secondary school No. 146, he entered the Siberian State Technological University, graduated from the Faculty of Finance and Economics. He is studying at the postgraduate Department of Physical Culture and Valeology of the Siberian State Technological University.

Tretyakov's first sporting hobby was athletics. At the regional championships, a representative of a bobsleigh and skeleton school saw him and offered to try himself in bobsleigh. At the age of 17, A. V. Tretyakov enrolled in the bobsleigh sports section of the Luge Sports School. He tried to become a pilot, and was a booster in the crew of the future world junior and youth champion Dmitry Abramovich. He trained on a bobsleigh track with a wooden chute near the Stolby Nature Reserve in Krasnoyarsk. In 2003, he participated in the Russian bobsleigh Championship in four-person crews, fulfilled the standard of a candidate for Master of Sports of Russia.

Tretyakov did not have enough weight for high achievements in bobsleigh. In 2003, he retired to skeleton. Anatoly Chelyshev Tretyakov has been working with the first coach for more than ten years, and Sergey Smirnov joined the Krasnoyarsk Territory national team to train the athlete. In 2004, A.V. Tretyakov joined the Russian national team, where coach Daniil Cheban took over the training of the skeleton athlete. He made his World Cup debut in the 2004/2005 season. In total, he made 54 starts in the World Cup, including six in team competitions. At individual stages of the World Cup, he won 19 prizes — five first, six second and eight third.

The Krasnoyarsk athlete is the first European champion in Russian skeleton history and the first Russian to win the World Cup and the World Cup overall in 2009, and to win medals at the World Championships and the Olympics. Among his achievements are multiple victories at the Russian championships, the title of European Champion in 2007, and the bronze medal at the World Championships in 2009. Tretyakov is the winner of four World Cup stages in 2007 and 2009.

In 2011, A. V. Tretyakov became the third at the European Championships and the second at the World Championships in Koenigsee (Germany), although he took the sixth place in the team tournament. He competed in six World Championships in total: in 2007 he finished fifth in the individual competition in St. Moritz (Switzerland), in 2008 he finished fifth in the team tournament and ninth in the individual in Altenberg (Germany), in 2009 in Lake Placid (USA) he took bronze. Participated in four European Championships (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010).

Tretyakov took 15th place at the Olympic Games in Turin. In the first half of the race, he was ahead of the schedules of future Olympic medalists, but by the finish he was losing speed.

At the Vancouver Olympics, Tretyakov won a bronze medal, the first in the history of Russian skeleton. He held the third position for three attempts. He also had a great fourth, but Canadian John Montgomery and Latvian Martins Dukurs did not get ahead of themselves.

For his great contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, and outstanding sporting achievements at the XXI Olympic Games in Vancouver, he was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.

In 2013, the athlete won the first gold in the history of Russia at the World Skeleton Championships. Tretyakov won the first three attempts, earning an advantage over the season's leader Martins Dukurs by 0.46 seconds. In the fourth, he retained his advantage: his final total time was 4 min. 32.35 sec.

In 2014, at the Sochi Olympics, Alexander Tretyakov won a gold medal and became the Olympic champion, the first in Russian history in this sport.