Alexei Volkonski (russian: Алексей Волконский), born 4 December 1978 in
Vladivostok, is a Russian
flatwater canoer.
Biography
He is a former world and
European champion in the
Canadian canoe C4 1000m.
Volkonsky did not take up
canoeing
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until the relatively late age of fifteen, when he was persuaded by friends to switch from
judo. In 1999 he won two gold medals at the senior European championships in
Zagreb in the C4 500m and C4 1000m. The same year he won the C4 1000m gold medal at the world championships in
Milan.
Since then he has been a regular medallist at the major championships, always in the four-man (C4) canoe. At the 2001 World Championships in
Poznań he won a 500m
bronze medal
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. In 2002 European Championship in
Szeged he won two medals (500m silver and 200m bronze). Two years later he returned to Poznań to win two more European
silver medals
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(200m and 500m).
In 2006 Volkonsky finished fifth in the C4 1000m final at the
world championships.
Volkonsky is a student at
Tver State University
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. He is coached by
Gennady Shishigin
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.
References
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Russian male canoeists
Living people
1978 births
Sportspeople from Vladivostok
Alexei
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