Vadzim Makhneu

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Vadzim Makhneu
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Gold 2008 Beijing K-4 1000 m
Silver 2012 London K-2 200 m
Bronze 2004 Athens K-2 500 m
Bronze 2008 Beijing K-2 500 m
World Championships
Gold 2005 Zagreb K-4 500 m
Gold 2007 Duisburg K-2 200 m
Gold 2009 Dartmouth K-2 200 m
Gold 2009 Dartmouth K-2 500 m
Gold 2009 Dartmouth K-4 200 m
Gold 2009 Dartmouth K-4 1000 m
Gold 2010 Poznań K-2 500 m
Silver 2002 Seville K-4 500 m
Silver 2003 Gainesville K-2 500 m
Silver 2007 Duisburg K-2 500 m
Silver 2010 Poznań K-4 1000 m
Silver 2013 Duisburg K–2 500 m
Bronze 2005 Zagreb K-4 200 m
Bronze 2006 Szeged K-4 1000 m
Bronze 2011 Szeged K-2 200 m
European Championships
Gold 2011 Belgrade K-2 500 m
Silver 2011 Belgrade K-2 200 m
Bronze 2012 Zagreb K-2 500 m

Vadzim Makhneu or Vadim Makhnev (Belarusian: Вадзім Махнеў; Russian: Вадим Махнев) (born December 21, 1979 in Minsk) is a Belarusian flatwater canoer who has competed since 2000. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-2 200m: 2012) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2004, 2008).

Makhneu never represented Belarus as a junior but won four European championship gold medals for his country at under-23 level as a member of the K-4 crew.

In 2001 he was promoted to the senior K-4 boat and won his first senior medals at the European championships in Milan (K-4 500 m bronze and K-4 1000 m bronze). A year later the same crew went to the world championships in Seville and took the K-4 500 m silver medal.

In 2003, Makhneu formed a K-2 partnership with Raman Piatrushenka, moving to Mozyr to work under Piatrushenka's coach Vladimir Shantarovich. In their first season together the pair won the 500 m silver medal at the world championships in Gainesville, USA.

Both men were still competing in the K-4 as well and had won another 500 m European medal, this time silver, in 2004.

This decision was amply rewarded in 2005 when the Belarus K-4 500 m crew of Piatrushenka/Abalmasau/Turchyn/Makhneu were crowned first European and then world champions.

He would win nine more medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a bronze in 2006 (K-4 1000 m), two more in 2007 (K-2 200 m: gold, K-2 500 m: silver), and four golds in 2009 (K-2 200 m, K-2 500 m, K-4 200 m, K-4 1000 m), and in 2010, a gold (K-2 500 m) and a silver (K-4 1000 m).

Makhneu is 195 cm (6'5") tall and weighs 91 kg (200 lbs). In 2005 he secretly married Alina, the receptionist of the hotel he had lived in while training in Mozyr.

His father, Gennady, finished seventh for the Soviet Union in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

References

Olympic Kayaking Champions in Men's K-4 1000 m
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