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Full name | Maxim Gennadyevich Maksimov | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Izhevsk, ![]() | September 6, 1979||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Maxim Gennadyevich Maksimov (Russian : Максим Геннадьевич Максимов, born September 6, 1979, in Izhevsk) is a retired Russian biathlete and biathlon coach. He took two individual medals in the Biathlon World Championships, a bronze in 2008 and a silver in 2011: these were also his only podiums in the Biathlon World Cup. In 2019 he was appointed as an assistant coach to the Russian national biathlon team, having previously been a regional coach in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. [1]
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