Konstantin Nikolaevich Fomichev (russian: Константин Николаевич Фомичёв - born 30 August 1977 in Ufa, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian

sprint canoeist Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race canoes or kayaks on calm water. Overview Race categories vary by the number of athletes in the boat, the length of the course, and whether the boat is a canoe or kayak. Canoe sprints are som ...

who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (C-2 200 m, C-4 200 m, C-4 500 m, C-4 1000 m: all

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

), three silvers (C-4 500 m:

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, C-4 1000 m:

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

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 ...

), and two bronzes (C-4 200 m: 1998, C-4 500 m:

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

). Formichev also finished ninth in the C-1 1000 m event at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

in Athens.

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* * 1977 births Living people Russian male canoeists Olympic canoeists for Russia Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Sportspeople from Ufa {{Russia-canoe-bio-stub