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Andrei Meshcheriakov
Andrey Meshcheryakov (born 20 April 1984 in Moscow) is a Russian swimmer and wheelchair curler. He has represented Russia at both the IPC World Championships and the 2012 Summer Paralympics. As a curler he was a participant of the 2018 Winter Paralympic games and World Wheelchair Curling Championships of 2019, 2020; he is a 2020 World champion. Personal history Meshcheryakov was born in 1994. He matriculated to Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics where he studied law. He was severely injured in a car accident resulting in permanent disabilities. He is married to Anastasia and as of 2014 has one child. In 2014 he became the first torch barer when the flame came to his home town of Moscow as part of the Winter Paralympics in Sochi. Swimming career After his accident Meshcheryakov initially took up table tennis, but switched to swimming as part of his rehabilitation. A water polo player before his injuries, Meshcheryakov showed promis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley. In addition to these individual events, four swimmers can take part in either a freestyle or medley relay. A medley relay consists of four swimmers who will each swim a different stroke, ordered as backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. Swimming each stroke requires a set of specific techniques; in competition, there are distinct regulations concerning the acceptable form for each individual stroke. There are also regulations on what types of swimsuits, caps, jewelry and injury tape that are allowed at competitions. Although it is possible for competitive swimmers to incur several injuries from the sport, such as te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 IPC Swimming World Championships
The 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships was an international swimming competition, the biggest meet for athletes with a disability since the 2012 Summer Paralympics. It was held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and lasted from 12 to 18 August. Around 530 athletes competed from 57 different countries. The event was held in the Parc Jean Drapeau Aquatic Complex located at the Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal. 172 events were contested with 43 new world records set. Venue The Championship was staged at the Parc Jean Drapeau Aquatic Complex in the Parc Jean-Drapeau located in the east of Montreal. The complex contains three outdoor swimming pools, all renovated shortly before the staging of the competition. Coverage As with the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, the IPC will continue to show live streaming of the evening finals on ParalympicSport.TV. In the United Kingdom Channel 4 continued their commitment to parasport with their own live streaming Paralympics website with pool-si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paralympic Swimmers For Russia
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, are held almost immediately following the respective Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Paralympics has grown from a small gathering of British World War II veterans in 1948 to become one of the largest international sporting events by the early 21st century. The Paralympics has grown from 400 athletes with a disability from 23 countries in Rome 1960, where they were proposed by doctor Antonio Maglio, to 4,520 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Shamov
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Sergey may refer to: * Sergey (name), a Russian given name (including a list of people with the name) * Sergey, Switzerland, a municipality in Switzerland * ''Sergey'' (wasp), a genus in subfamily Doryctinae The Doryctinae or doryctine wasps are a large subfamily of braconid parasitic wasps (Braconidae). Numerous genera and species formerly unknown to science are being described every year. This subfamily is presumably part of a clade containing o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Karpushina
Anna Vladimirovna Karpushina (russian: А́нна Влади́мировна Карпу́шина; born February 11, 1982) is a Russian wheelchair curler, 2020 World champion. Master of Sports of Russia (2014). She is the first World wheelchair curling champion from Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ... and the first wheelchair curler from Saint Petersburg in Russian national team. Teams References External links * * * * * Living people 1982 births Curlers from Saint Petersburg Russian female curlers Russian wheelchair curlers World wheelchair curling champions {{Russia-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitaly Danilov
Vitaly Vladimirovich Danilov (russian: Вита́лий Влади́мирович Дани́лов; born 12 June 1980 in Shchyolkovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia) is a Russian wheelchair curler Wheelchair curling is an adaptation of curling for athletes with a disability affecting their lower limbs or gait. Wheelchair curling is governed by the World Curling Federation, and is one of the sports in the Paralympic Games, Winter Paralympic ..., 2020 World champion. Teams References External links * Виталий Данилов , ПКР , Паралимпийский комитет России* Список кандидатов в спортивные сборные команды Российской Федерации по спорту лиц с поражением ОДА (зимние дисциплины) на сезон 2017-2018 г.г.(см. "Дисциплина: Кёрлинг на колясках") * Living people 1980 births Sportspeople from Moscow Oblast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarita Nesterova (curler)
Margarita Nesterova (born 20 September 1989, Dushanbe) is a Russian swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ..., she competed for the national team in the Women's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay, finishing in 10th place in the heats, failing to reach the final. References Living people Olympic swimmers for Russia Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Russian female freestyle swimmers Universiade medalists in swimming 1989 births Sportspeople from Dushanbe Universiade bronze medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade {{Russia-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Smirnov (curler)
Andrey Viktorovich Smirnov (russian: Андре́й Ви́кторович Смирно́в; born 28 August 1973) is a Russian wheelchair curler playing as skip for the Russian wheelchair curling team. He and his team won the silver medal at the 2014 Paralympic Games and gold medals at the 2012 and 2015 World Championships. Biography As a child Smirnov did speed skating, but after an accident at the age of 12, when he fell into an elevator pit on a building site, he performed sports including arm wrestling, darts, tennis and basketball. Besides his success in international tournaments Smirnov won bronze at the 2011-12 Russian National Championships. He is a member of the local sports club "Rodnik" in Yekaterinburg. Awards * Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" The Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (russian: Медаль ордена «За заслуги перед Отечеством») was established on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Batugin
Anton Andrianovich Batugin (russian: Анто́н Андриа́нович Бату́гин, born in Kemerovo) is a Russian curler and curling coach. As a coach of Russian wheelchair curling team he participated in 2014 and 2018 Winter Paralympics. In 2018 the Russian National team won the tournament in Kisakallio. As a curler at the international level he played for Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ... on and championships. In 2020 the Russian National team beat Canada for the gold medal at the World Wheelchair Curling Championship. Teams Record as a coach of national teams References External links * * *Батугин Антон Андрианович - Sportbox Living people 1980 births Sportspeople from Kemerovo Russian male curlers Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daria Shchukina
Daria Ivanovna Shchukina (russian: Да́рья Ива́новна Щу́кина; born 1 September 1979 in Chelyabinsk, Russia) is a Russian wheelchair curler, 2020 World champion. Career She is a member of the local sports club "Yunost-Metar" (Chelyabinsk). She was a participant of the 2018 Winter Paralympic games and three World Wheelchair Curling Championships of 2017, 2019, 2020. Teams References External links *at the International Paralympic Committee The International Paralympic Committee (IPC; german: Internationales Paralympisches Komitee) is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and fun ...'s website Living people 1979 births Sportspeople from Chelyabinsk Russian female curlers Russian wheelchair curlers Wheelchair curlers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Paralympic wheelchair curlers for Russia World wheelchair curling champions {{Russia-cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Shevchenko (curler)
Alexander Alexeyevich Shevchenko (russian: Алекса́ндр Алексе́евич Шевче́нко; born 3 June 1971) is a Russian wheelchair curler playing as lead for the Russian wheelchair curling team. He and his team won the silver medal at the 2014 Paralympic Games, gold medals at the 2012, 2015, and 2016 World Championships, and the silver medal at the 2017 World Championships Biography Shevhcenko came to curling after a car accident. Awards * Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" The Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (russian: Медаль ордена «За заслуги перед Отечеством») was established on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree No.442. Its award criteria were modified on 6 J ... I class (17 March 2014) – ''for the huge contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, and for the high athletic performances at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi'' * Laureate of the "Return to L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marat Romanov
Marat Marsovich Romanov (russian: Мара́т Ма́рсович Рома́нов; born 5 June 1966) is a Russian wheelchair curler playing as alternate for the Russian wheelchair curling team. He and his team won the silver medal at the 2014 Paralympic Games, gold medals at the 2012, 2015, and 2016 World Championships, and the silver medal at the 2017 World Championships Biography Marat Romanov was born on 5 June 1966 in Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. After school, Marat was trained as an assistant engine driver and spent a few years in the Soviet Navy before getting the job of a smelter at the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant. In his spare time, he enjoyed mountaineering. Romanov came to curling after a car accident in 1996, after which he received a vertebral compression fracture. He also did basketball and arm wrestling. In May 2007 he formed a curling team in Chelyabinsk, where he was a skip. In 2009, he graduated from the Department of Physical Education at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
