04, March 2009 on the Open European Biathlon Championship 2009 (U26) junior men team from Russia (Nazir Rabodanov, Sergey Kugubaev, Timofey Lapshin, Alexey Volkov) won the golden medal, having finished the distance on 4x7, 5 with the result: 1:22:07.5. The silver went to Ukraine (Mikhailo Serdyuk, Vitaliy Kilchytskyy, Vitaliy Sokolyuk, Nazariy Burik), 1:24:40.2; the bronze medal owner – Belorussia (Sergey Rutsevich, Vladimir Chepelin, Vitaliy Tsvetov, Vladimir Alenisko), 1:25:15.5.