Sergei Ivanovich Kinyakin ( October 6, 1961 , Sarovka , Tomsk Region ) - Soviet and Belarusian rower , played for the USSR, CIS and Belarus national rowing teams in the 1980s - 1990s. Four-time world champion, multiple winner of republican and all-union regattas, participant of the three summer Olympic Games. At the competition he represented the Armed Forces, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1987).
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| Specialization | paired fours |
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| Growth | 190 cm |
| Weight | 90 kg |
Biography
Sergey Kinyakin was born on October 6, 1961 in the village of Sarovka, Kolpashevsky District, Tomsk Region . He began to actively engage in rowing in early childhood, while serving in the army he lived in Minsk and played for the local sports club of the Armed Forces.
He made his debut at the adult international level in the 1982 season, when he got into the main team of the Soviet national team and visited the world championship in Swiss Lucerne, where he took eleventh place in the program for wheelless twos. A year later, at the world championship in German Duisburg, he finished seventh in the same discipline. Real fame came to him in 1986 at the World Championships in Nottingham, England, here with his double four he overtook all rivals and won a gold medal. The following season he defended his champion title at competitions in Copenhagen - for this outstanding achievement he was awarded the honorary title “ Honored Master of Sports of the USSR ” [1] .
Thanks to a series of successful performances in 1988, Kinyakin was awarded the right to defend the honor of the country at the Seoul Summer Olympic Games - together with team-mate four partners Pavel Krupko , Alexander Zaskalko and Yuri Zelikovich, he was close to the prize positions, but in the end he took fourth place, not holding out a bit to the bronze medal.
At the 1989 World Cup, held on Lake Bled in Yugoslavia, he took seventh place in doubles. In 1990, at the World Championships in Tasmania, he again became the champion, having won the doubles program. A year later, he took bronze at the World Cup in Italy and went to the World Cup in Vienna, where for the fourth time in his career he won the title of champion among paired four-seater crews. Later, he was selected for the so-called Joint Team, created from athletes of the former Soviet republics to participate in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . With the team, which also included rowers Valery Dosenko , Nikolai Chuprina and Girts Vilks , managed to reach the finals, however, he finished only seventh in the decisive race.
After the final collapse of the Soviet Union, Sergey Kinyakin played for the national team of Belarus for several years and subsequently took part in many major international regattas. So, in 1993, in the fours, he took tenth place at the world championship in the Czech city of Racice, in 1995 he was twenty-seventh in the doubles at the world championship in Finnish Tampere. As one of the leaders of the Belarusian national team, he went to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta , where, with the participation of rowers such as Konstantin Belevich , Sergey Tarasevich , Oleg Solomakhin and Denis Tabako , participated in the consolation final “B” and was located on the eleventh line of the final protocol. Shortly after these Olympic competitions, he decided to end the career of a professional athlete, giving way to young Belarusian rowers.
Notes
- ↑ Soviet and Russian rowers: champions (Inaccessible link) . All-Russian Sports Forum "Russia - a Sports Power" (2010). Date of treatment September 22, 2014. Archived March 4, 2016.
Links
- Sergey Kinyakin - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Sergey Kinyakin - profile on the FISA website (eng.)