Avdeev, Alexander Alekseevich (rower)

Alexander Avdeev was born on August 1, 1956 in Kuibyshev . He began to actively engage in rowing in early childhood in the Latvian city of Jelgava , and was a member of the rowing team of the Dynamo sports society. He achieved his first serious success in 1977, when he won two gold medals in the kayak four at the championships of the Soviet Union, at distances of 1000 and 10000 meters. Once in the main team of the national team, he performed at the World Championships in Bulgarian Sofia, became the silver medalist at the kilometer distance and the champion at the ten-kilometer distance. A year later, again was the best in the ten-kilometer four-seater kayak race at the All-Union Championship, he attended the World Championships in Belgrade, from where he brought another gold dignity award.

In 1979, Avdeev won the USSR champion title in the fours of 1000 and 10,000 meters, in the same disciplines he competed in the world championship in Duisburg, Germany, in the first case he won bronze, while the second time he won gold. For these achievements, according to the results of the season, he was awarded the honorary title “ Honored Master of Sports of the USSR ”. A year later he defended the title of the All-Union Champion at 1000 meters and thanks to a series of successful performances he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow . He made his way to the final stage of the kilometer classification of four-seater kayaks, but in the decisive race he finished only seventh.

After the Moscow Olympics, Avdeev’s career began to decline slightly, he did not get into the main team and did not take part in major international tournaments. Nevertheless, in 1983 he still managed to return to the world rowing elite, first won the USSR Championship in the K-4 category 10,000 m, then in the same discipline he won the World Championship in Finnish Tampere, the fourth in a row. Shortly after these competitions, Alexander Avdeev decided to end his athlete’s career, giving way to young Soviet rowers.

Now lives in Riga . He has higher education, graduated from the Latvian Agricultural Academy (now the Latvian Agricultural University) ^[1] .

• Alexander Avdeev - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
• Alexander Avdeev - medals at major international competitions
• Avdeev Alexander Alekseevich (unavailable link from 06/14/2016 [1153 days]) - a brief biographical information on the Yandex.Dictionaries website
• List of USSR Kayaking and Canoeing Champions (unavailable link from 06/14/2016 [1153 days])