Alexei Volkonski

Alexei Volkonski[1] (Russian: Алексей Волконский), born 4 December 1978 in Vladivostok, is a Russian flatwater canoer.[2]

Alexei Volkonski
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
World Championships
1999 MilanC-4 1000 m
2001 PoznańC-4 500 m

Biography

He is a former world and European champion in the Canadian canoe C4 1000m.

Volkonsky did not take up canoeing 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. 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 (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. He is coached by Gennady Shishigin and Sergey Kima.

References
  1. "Canoe Results". Canoeresults.eu. Archived from the original on January 27, 2020. Retrieved January 27, 2020.
  2. "'Stok character". Rupert Bottenberg. Montreal Mirror. 29 March 2007. Archived from the original on 30 June 2007. Retrieved 25 June 2009.
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