Biography
Anton Babikov is a Russian biathlete, honored master of sports, a member of the national team. He has many prestigious international awards. He is the owner of the prize IBU "Novice Year", World Champion of 2017 in the relay, three-time champion of Europe, three times the bronze medalist of the continental championship. "It's nice to seek such results, this is an indication that you spend your time not in vain. While I am smiling luck, it means that everything is good and you need to continue in the same vein, "said Anton.Childhood and youth
Anton Bubikov was born in Ufa in a large family. The parents of the future champion, which were also professional athletes, four sons, from which Anton is younger. This fact sounds not entirely correct, because the boy was born in along with the twin novel brother.
Mother and Father did not impose a sport as a profession, but they tried to raise love for physical exercises in the boys. Therefore, in childhood, each of them passed through various types of sports. Of course, Anton did not exception. He still went to an easy athletic and football, and a little later, following the example of an elder brother, he was carried away by boxing and 2 years in a sports school Bill Pear.
At 11 years old, a young athlete wanted to learn to confidently ski. But the section in which Babikov got was unprofessional. Therefore, the coach, like the school teacher of physical education, seeing the efforts and potential of Anton, advised him to pay attention to another winter sport - biathlon. Especially since the Ufa is a very good base for training for ski shooting.
That's so almost by chance, Anton Bubikov got into biathlon in 12 years and quickly realized that it was just what he was looking for. However, in children's and youth competitions he did not become a star. As the athlete says today, the body at that time copied the power to shoot adult competitions.
In biathlonist 2 of higher education - coaching and teacher and PR management. Both were obtained in the Sterlitamak Institute of Physical Education.
Biathlon
In the big sport, Anton Babikov's star began to appear in 2013. The athlete became the champion of Russia in Sprint-Cross and got into the Bashkortostan national team. A year later, Anton adds the championship in the individual race to the next victory in Sprint-Crosse. By the way, this classic Babikov competition considers beloved, although for most biathletes such a race does not look attractive because of too much labor costs.In 2014, Anton received the first bronze medal at the open European Championships in the Czech Republic in the pursuit of 12.5 km. A year later, in the same continental championship, the biathlonist repeated this achievement in Estonian. Also, the athlete stipped to the personal bronze medal victory in the relay race as part of the Russian national team 4x7.5 km. The winner of the tournament Anton Bubikov, together with Alexey Volkov, Alexander Pechenkin and Alexey Slepovy.
This breakthrough occurred in 2016. At the European Championship, which was held in Tyumen, the Russian athlete won bronze in the sprint, and he also climbed the top of the podium pedestal. The first time is for a medal in a single mixed relay, and the second is the reward of the persecution racing, which became natural benefit from Babikov.
Thanks to a bright performance in Tyumen Anton, Anton was included in the Russian national team to participate in the World Championship, which was held in the Norwegian city of Holmenclane. By the way, like most athletes, Babikov unequivocally refers to the signs and superstitions. For example, all medals of 2016 brought with themselves to Norway, according to Anton, for good luck.
On December 4, 2016 in Ostersund, an athlete left the start of the seventh, and he came to the finish line first, Having got the first victory in his own career at the World Cup stage. Anton Bubikov ahead of the favorite of the competition, Frenchman Marten Fourcade. At the same time, Marten finished only by the third. The compatriot Babikova Maxim Flowers came to the finish line.
In 2017, the biathlonist entered the Russian national team at the World Championships in Hochfilzen. Together with Alexey Volkov, Maxim Tsvetkov and Anton Shipulin, he became a member in the relay race of 4x7.5 km. This discipline brought Babikov the title of world champion. At the Russian Championships in 2017, Anton took bronze in the persecution. In the same year, the biathlonist received the title of Honored Master of Sports.
For the overwhelming majority of people who have made a sports profession, the Olympic Games are the main start in life, and the Olympic medal is the limit of dreams. However, the OI-2018 became for Anton an exception due to a number of doping scandals and the subsequent deprivation of the Russian national team right to perform under the flag of the country. In an interview after a failure speech in Pchenchkhan in the sprint (57th place), the biathlonist stated: "I do not feel this start in my life. Last year, at the World Championships, I felt much more responsibility. For me, it was something great for me. When I was in my team and played it. I do not feel that this is the Olympics. I do not feel that this is what we all went. "
From the Korean Tournament of the four-year Russian biathlon team for the first time since 1960, when this sport was included in the Games Program, left without a single medal. Babikov did not respond to responsibility for the result - after all, was the most titled team after the disqualification of Anton Shipulin. But the future biathlete wished changes in the coaching composition, in approaches to training, in relations between athletes, coaches and management.
At the end of the season, in March 2018, Anton won bronze as part of the national team in the relay at the World Cup.
The preparation of Anton in the 2018/2019 season was not quite smooth. He did not have enough points on qualifying starts to get into the national team. Babikov in Sergey Korostyleva and Nikita Porshnev went to earn points at the IBU Cup in Italy, where he soon headed the tournament table, won the silver and gold medals in the sprint.
And then the lack of an athlete spoke about, and he repeated the edition of Sport-Express:
"The problem with communication, which was the problem of our team in past years, apparently remained after the change of power in the SBR."On this soil there was a conflict with the coaching staff. At that time, the President of the Union of Biathlonists of Russia Vladimir Drachev caused a considerable scandal when he published a post in social networks that Anton refused to replace the boring Evgeny Garanechov in the relay at the Austrian stage of the World Cup, referring to their own health problems. Bubikov himself learned about the charges also from the Internet, but he refused to comment on the situation.
A former head of SBR Alexander Tikhonov connected to the situation. The 4-fold Olympic Biathlon Champion talked with an athlete and his coach and later wrote in his personal blog that Drachev, "Before carrying Achinea for the whole country," should find out what happened.
Due to the fact that the biathlonist did not come to Hochfilzen, he also had a conflict with a sports commentator Dmitry Guberniev. He accused Babikov in reluctance to help the Russian national team. As a result, Babikova and removed from participation in the World Cup. It helped the athlete avoid moral pressure, which was tested by colleagues in the Austrian Hochfilzen. The location of the Russians later, the local police declared the local police with accusations of doping during the 2017 World Cup. And on a strange coincidence of circumstances, it happened just on the eve of the start of the sprint race. Judging by the fact that biathletes declared in the starting sheet continued participation in the tournament, the suspicions of the police were groundless.
At the Russian Championships in April 2019, Bashkortostan-1 team with Anton took the 2nd place in the relay. In the mass start, the athlete remained at the 26th position, in other types of competitions did not participate - injured his shoulder. There was a question about the operation, but decided to restrict ourselves to conservative treatment.
At the end of the season, the Board of the SBR published the composition of the national team of the Russian Federation 2019/2020. Bubikov returned to the team. And as the winner of the overall office of the IBU Cup, he also provided himself with a personal quota at the first stage of the World Cup.
Personal life
Anton Babikov is an open and positive person, ready to share with the press all sorts of details of the biography. The athlete freely talks about his big family: parents, brothers, their wives and children. But the information about his personal life is a young man refuses to give a flat.
It is known that an attractive biathlete (height of 180 cm, weight 66 kg) in the winter of 2017 began to meet a girl. She turned out to be a skier Alexander Batsin. The media began to appear happy joint photos of young people. Anton even planned to play a wedding with Alena after the Olympics, and also to acquaint her with his parents while they were in Ufa. But soon there were other rumors - that the couple broke up, they were confirmed.
In December 2019, it became known that now Anton is happy in his personal life. He had a wife, and he became a father. Alena Safina's beloved biathlete, Safina, gave birth to a daughter athlete.
Anton loves his hometown, but repeatedly stated that they would prefer to live in a quiet village. There he could make reflections on philosophical topics, as well as pay attention to his beloved hobby - reading. Although some people have a stereotype of athletes as poor educated people, in fact it is not. Anton prefers serious classical literature. One of the favorite writers is German Hesse, and Bubikov mastered his bibliography.
The athlete is registered at Facebook, where it is periodically divided by news about his life.
Anton Babikov now
In November 2020, biathlon fees were held in Khanty-Mansiysk. Anton Bubikov won in the second control race. He came first to the finish line during the mass start, and at the distance made only one miss. The biathlonist commented on their success as:"The slide was tugged. The race was not easy, but managed to compete at the turn, did not cost without mistake, but in general I am satisfied. "It is worth noting that in the first race Babikov failed to demonstrate a good result. He took the 3rd place. But the 1st right went to Eugene Garanichev.
On November 18, the compositions of the male and female teams of Russia at the first stage of the World Cup of the Season 2020/21 in Finland were announced. The team included such biathletes like Anton Babikov, Alexander Loginov, Matvey Eliseev, Semen Suchilov, Svetlana Mironova, Larisa Kuklin and others.
It is worth noting that the composition and male and women's teams were included on one additional biathlete. It was done for insurance - the likelihood of infection of athletes Coronovirus is great. In the case of an outbreak of the "Spare" virus, the member must quickly replace the dropped out of the base.
Because of the pandemic, the first four stages of the World Cup prepared in two cities. The first and second start in early December - in Finnish Contiolachti, and the third and fourth at the end of the same month - in the Austrian Hochfilzen.
Anton Bubikov expressed his attitude to Coronavirus:
"There is no fear of the disease, there is a fear of the fact that all the works due to a positive test can go to the Nammark. Anyone appreciates his work when he understands how much invested in her. I do not want to lose everything because of the wrong test or something else. "The season continued on the World Cup in Slovenian Pokluk. The Russian team had to speak without a national flag - such a decision was made by a sports arbitration court (CAS) in connection with WADA anti-doping sanctions.
Achievements
- 2013 - Russian Biathlon Champion in Sprint Cross
- 2013 - Silver winner of the Russian Championship in the summer biathlon in the Bashkortostan team
- 2014 - Russia Biathlon Champion in the individual race and sprint cross
- 2014, 2015 - Bronze medalist of the European Championship in pursuit of 12.5 km
- 2015 - European champion in the 4 × 7.5 km relay, the gold medals of the IBU Cup in the persecution race and in the sprint
- 2016 - European champion in a single mixed relay and persecution of 12.5 km, the Bronze medalist of the European Championship in the sprint of 10 km, the Golden IBU Cup Medal in Sprint
- 2017 - world champion in the 4 × 7.5 km relay, silver and bronze medals of the World Cup stages in the relay
- 2018 - Two bronze medals of the World Cup stages in the relay