Yevgeniy Alexeyev (canoeist)

Yevgeniy Alexeyev

Personal information
Full name	Yevgeniy Petrovich Alexeyev
Nationality	Kazakhstan
Born	(1977-12-11) 11 December 1977 Shymkent, Kazakh SSR
Height
Weight	85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Sport	Canoeing
Event(s)	Sprint canoe
Club	CSKA Almaty
Medal record Men's canoe sprint Representing Kazakhstan Asian Games 2002 Busan K-4 500 m 2002 Busan K-4 1000 m 2010 Guangzhou K-4 1000 m 2006 Doha K-2 1000 m

Yevgeniy Petrovich Alexeyev (Kazakh: Евгений Петрович Алексеев; born December 11, 1977 in Shymkent) is a Kazakhstani sprint canoeist. He won a gold medal, as a member of the Kazakhstan men's kayak four, at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, and silver at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. He also captured a bronze medal, along with his partner Alexey Podoinikov in the men's kayak doubles (1000 m) at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.

Alexeyev qualified for the men's K-2 1000 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by placing first from the 2011 Asian Canoe Sprint Championships in Tehran, Iran. Alexeyev and his partner Alexey Dergunov paddled to a third-place finish, and eleventh overall in the B-final by approximately two seconds behind the winning Danish pair Kim Wraae Knudsen and Emil Stær Simensen, posting their best Olympic time of 3:14.867. Three days later, the Kazakh pair edged out Japan's Momotaro Matsushita and Hiroki Watanabe for first place by twenty-four hundredths of a second (0.24), in the B-final of the men's K-2 200 metres, clocking at 35.494 seconds.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile