Pavel Karelin

Pavel Vladimirovich Karelin (27 April 1990 – 9 October 2011[1]) was a Russian ski jumper from Nizhny Novgorod who competed from 2004 until his death in 2011.

He made his World Cup debut on 30 November 2007, finishing 8th in team large hill event at Kuusamo, Finland.

His best World Cup finish was second in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 1 January 2011 during the 2010–11 Four Hills Tournament, making him the second Russian ski jumper, in post-Soviet era, to manage a podium position; the first was Dimitry Vassiliev who also scored his first podium place, with a second, on 1 January in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in 2001.

Karelin died in a car accident on 9 October 2011 in Nizhny Novgorod.

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