Vadzim Henadzevich Makhneu ( be, Вадзім Генадзевіч Махнеў) or Vadim Makhnev russian: Вадим Махнев; born 21 December 1979) is a Belarusian flatwater canoeist who has competed since 2000. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with a gold (K-4 1000 m:

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), a silver (K-2 200m:

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) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2004, 2008).

Career

In 2001 he was promoted to the senior K-4 boat and won his first senior medals at the European championships in

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(K-4 500 m bronze and K-4 1000 m bronze). A year later the same crew went to the

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and took the K-4 500 m silver medal. In 2003, Makhneu formed a K-2 partnership with

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, moving to

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to work under Piatrushenka's coach Vladimir Shantarovich. In their first season together the pair won the 500 m silver medal at the

in Gainesville, USA. This decision was amply rewarded in 2005 when the Belarus K-4 500 m crew of Piatrushenka/ Abalmasau/ Turchyn/Makhneu were crowned first European and then world champions. He would win nine more medals at the

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with a bronze in 2006 (K-4 1000 m), two more in 2007 (K-2 200 m: gold, K-2 500 m: silver), and four golds in 2009 (K-2 200 m, K-2 500 m, K-4 200 m, K-4 1000 m), and in 2010, a gold (K-2 500 m) and a silver (K-4 1000 m). In 2005 Makhneu secretly married Alina, a receptionist of the hotel he had lived in while training in Mozyr. His father, Gennady, finished seventh for the

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in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in

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References

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