Yevgeniy Alexeyev (canoeist)
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| Full name | Yevgeniy Petrovich Alexeyev | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Kazakhstan | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
11 December 1977 Shymkent, Kazakh SSR | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Canoeing | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Sprint canoe | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | CSKA Almaty[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yevgeniy Petrovich Alexeyev (Kazakh: Евгений Петрович Алексеев; born December 11, 1977 in Shymkent) is a Kazakhstani sprint canoeist.[1][2] He won a gold medal, as a member of the Kazakhstan men's kayak four, at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, and silver at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.[3] He also captured a bronze medal, along with his partner Alexey Podoinikov in the men's kayak doubles (1000 m) at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.[4]
Alexeyev qualified for the men's K-2 1000 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by placing first from the 2011 Asian Canoe Sprint Championships in Tehran, Iran.[5] Alexeyev and his partner Alexey Dergunov paddled to a third-place finish, and eleventh overall in the B-final by approximately two seconds behind the winning Danish pair Kim Wraae Knudsen and Emil Stær Simensen, posting their best Olympic time of 3:14.867.[6] Three days later, the Kazakh pair edged out Japan's Momotaro Matsushita and Hiroki Watanabe for first place by twenty-four hundredths of a second (0.24), in the B-final of the men's K-2 200 metres, clocking at 35.494 seconds.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Yevgeniy Alexeyev". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Yevgeniy Alexeyev". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Uzbekistan wins men's kayak four 1000m gold at Asiad". Xinhua News Agency. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Chinese duo add another kayak gold". Xinhua News Agency. 11 December 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "14th Asian Canoe Sprint Championships – Men's K2 1000m" (PDF). Japan Canoe Federation. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Men's Kayak Double (K2) 1000m Final B". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Men's Kayak Double (K2) 200m Final B". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.