Maksym Prokopenko
Medal record | ||
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Men's canoe sprint | ||
World Championships | ||
2009 Dartmouth | C-2 1000 m | |
2010 Poznań | C-2 500 m | |
2011 Szeged | C-2 500 m | |
2011 Szeged | C-2 1000 m | |
2011 Szeged | C-1 4 x 200 m | |
2006 Szeged | C-2 1000 m | |
2009 Dartmouth | C-2 500 m | |
European Championships | ||
2010 Trasona | C-2 1000 m | |
2011 Belgrade | C-2 500 m |
Maksym Serhiyovych Prokopenko (Максим Сергійович Прокопенко; born March 23, 1984 in Vilshanka, Kirovohrad Oblast) is a Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani sprint canoer who has competed since 2002.
Competing for Ukraine, Prokopenko was the Canadian canoe C-1 500 m silver medallist at the 2002 Junior European Championships in Zagreb. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged.
Competing in two Summer Olympics also for Ukraine, Prokopenko earned his best finish of eighth in the C-2 500 m event at Beijing in 2008.
Prokopenko moved to Azerbaijan after the 2008 Summer Olympics and won two medals for his new nation at the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with a silver in the C-2 1000 m and a bronze in the C-2 500 m events. He also won a silver in the C-2 500 m event at the 2010 championships.
He and team-mate Serhiy Bezuhliy finished fourth for Azerbaijan in the men's C-2 1000 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
References
- Canoe09.ca profile
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007.
- Sports-reference.com profile
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- 1984 births
- Azerbaijani canoeists
- Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists of Ukraine
- Olympic canoeists of Azerbaijan
- Ukrainian canoeists
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
- Male canoeists
- European canoeist stubs
- Azerbaijani sportspeople stubs
- Ukrainian sportspeople stubs