Konstantin Sokolenko (born 9 November 1987 in

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) is a

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

Nordic combined Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing and ski jumping. The Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics has been held since the first ever Winter Olympics in 1924, while the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup ...

skier.

Career

Sokolenko is the most qualified Nordic combined skier in

. Sokolenko's best performance was when he received the 28th place in a summer World Cup competition in

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, Switzerland. He competed in the World Championships in Sapporo 2007 and took 42nd place in the Sprint competition. Impressive because Sokolenko took a bad fall one day earlier. Sokolenko also took the 48th place in 15 km Gundersen and received the 10th place in the team competition together with the other jumpers in the Kazakhstani team, Sergey Sharabayev, Anton Kankenov, and Alexandr Gurin, who also took a dangerous crash in Sapporo. Sokolenko competed in the Nordic Combined Continental Cup the season 2008–09 and has two times received a 16th place which was his best performance so far this winter. In the summer of 2010, Sokolenko quit his Nordic combined career to become a ski jumper. His first results was a 4th place in Fiscup and a 13th in Continental Cup.

Personal information

Sokolenko is jumping for club ZSKA Almaty. He is living in Almaty,

External links

FIS-Bio

References

Kazakhstani male Nordic combined skiers Kazakhstani male ski jumpers Sportspeople from Almaty Ski jumpers at the 2011 Asian Winter Games Ski jumpers at the 2017 Asian Winter Games Medalists at the 2017 Asian Winter Games Asian Games medalists in ski jumping Asian Games silver medalists for Kazakhstan Living people 1987 births {{Kazakhstan-skijumping-bio-stub