Alexey Korovashkov
Russian canoeist (born 1992)
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Alexey Igorevich Korovashkov (Russian: Алексей Игоревич Коровашков; born 1 April 1992) is a Russian canoeist.[1]
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| Full name | Alexey Igorevich Korovashkov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 April 1992 (age 34) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | canoe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career
In 2011, he was part of the Russian team that won gold in the 4 x 200 m C-1 event at the sprint canoe World Championships, alongside Ivan Shtyl, Viktor Melantev, and Yevgeny Ignatov.[2]
He has won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the C-2 1000 m event.
In 2014, he won World gold in the C-2 200 m and 500 m with Shtyl, and regained the C-1 4 x 200 m title, this time with Shtyl, Andrey Kraitor and Nikolay Lipkin.[2] He also won a silver in the individual 200 m.[2]
At the 2015 Sprint Canoe World Championships, he won gold in men's C-2 200 m also with Shtyl.[2][3]
In June 2015, he competed in the inaugural European Games, for Russia in canoe sprint, more specifically, Men's C-2 1000m. He earned a silver medal. At the 2015 European Championships, he won gold in the C-2 200 m and C-2 500 m (also with Shtyl), and silver in the C-2 1000 m with Ilya Pervukhin.[4]
In 2016, he won gold in the C-2 1000 m at the European sprint championships, also with Pervukhin.[5]
In 2017, he won silver in the C-1 200 m event at the European Championships.[6]
He competed as a neutral athlete at the 2024 Olympics, finishing fourth in the C-2 500 m with Zakhar Petrov.[7][8] That year, also as a neutral athlete, he won the mixed C-2 500 m event at the World Championships, with Ekaterina Shliapnikova.[9] That year, he and Shtyl won gold in the C-2 500 m at the European Championships.[10]
