Pavel Vladimirovich Karelin (27 April 1990 – 9 October 2011) was a Russia

Russia

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n ski jumper

Ski jumping

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 from Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg...

 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

Kuusamo

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, Finland. During the 2010 Winter Olympics

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 in Vancouver

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, he finished tenth in the team large hill, 33rd in the individual normal hill, and 38th in the individual large hill events.

At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009, Karelin finished ninth in the team large hill and 34th in the individual large hill events.

His best World Cup finish was second in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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 on 1 January 2011 during the 2010–11 Four Hills Tournament

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, making him the second Russian ski jumper, in post-Soviet era, to manage a podium position; the first was Dimitry Vassiliev

Dimitry Vassiliev

Dimitry Viktorovich Vassiliev is a Russian ski jumper who has been competing in the World Cup since 1999. His best finish at the World Championships is fifth in the team normal hill in Oberstdorf 2005 while his best individual finish was seventh in the individual large hill at the Sapporo 2007.At...

 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

Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg...

. He was 21.