Marat Marsovich Romanov (russian: Мара́т Ма́рсович Рома́нов; born 5 June 1966) is a Russian

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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

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, 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

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. Romanov came to curling after a car accident in 1996, after which he received a

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. He also did

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and

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. In May 2007 he formed a curling team in

Chelyabinsk Chelyabinsk ( rus, Челя́бинск, p=tɕɪˈlʲæbʲɪnsk, a=Ru-Chelyabinsk.ogg; ba, Силәбе, ''Siläbe'') is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the seventh-largest city in Russia, with a ...

, where he was a

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. In 2009, he graduated from the Department of Physical Education at the Ural State Academy of Physical Education in Chelyabinsk.

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'' * Merited Master of Sports of Russia (2013)

References

External links

* * 1966 births Living people Russian male curlers Russian wheelchair curlers Paralympic wheelchair curlers for Russia Paralympic medalists in wheelchair curling Paralympic silver medalists for Russia Wheelchair curlers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Wheelchair curlers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2014 Winter Paralympics World wheelchair curling champions Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I class Sportspeople from Chelyabinsk 20th-century Russian people 21st-century Russian people {{Russia-Paralympic-medalist-stub