Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kovalyov (russian: Александр Владимирович Ковалёв, born March 2, 1975) is a Russian sprint canoeist who has competed from 1997 to 2005. Having just missed out on a medal at the

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, he and partner

Aleksandr Kostoglod Aleksandr Viktorovich Kostoglod (russian: Александр Викторович Костоглод, born 31 May 1974) is a Soviet-born, Russian sprint canoeist who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won t ...

won two medals at Athens in 2004 with a silver in the C-2 1000 m and bronze C-2 500 m events. Kovalev also won six medals at the

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with three golds (C-2 1000 m:

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

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; C-4 200 m:

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), one silver (C-2 1000 m:

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), and two bronzes (C-2 500 m: 1999, C-4 200 m:

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). A member of the Russian national team since 1997, he is small for a world-class canoeist at tall and but makes up for this with excellent technique.

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* * 1975 births Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists of Russia Olympic silver medalists for Russia Olympic bronze medalists for Russia Russian male canoeists People from Belaya Kalitva Olympic medalists in canoeing ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Rostov Oblast {{Russia-Olympic-medalist-stub