Position Left wing Role Ice hockey player Current team Ak Bars Kazan Name Danis Zaripov Career start 1996 | National team Russia Weight 81 kg Shoots Left Height 1.84 m | |
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Born 26 March 1981 (age 42)
Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR,
Soviet Union ( 1981-03-26 ) KHL team
Former teams Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Ak Bars Kazan
Mechel Chelyabinsk Spouse Tatiana Zaripova (m. 2000) | ||
Russia/KHL/"AK Bars" team/Danis Zaripov player/Dinar Gazizov present
Danis Zinnurovich Zaripov (Russian: Данис Зиннурович Зарипов, Tatar: Данис Зиннур улы Зарипов, Danis Zinnur uğlı Zaripov; born 26 March 1981) is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Zaripov was also a member of the Russia men's national ice hockey team for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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Playing career
Zaripov won the Gagarin Cup four times (2009, 2010, 2014, 2016). In 2017, Zaripov was banned from the KHL and IIHF through 2019 for testing positive for pseudoephedrine, an ingredient commonly found in allergy medicine and nasal decongestants. He has expressed interest in playing in the National Hockey League, which does not ban the substance.
Personal life
He has a son Arthur with his wife, Tatiana, with whom he has been in a relationship since the year 2000.
