Vasile Simochenko ( roman. Vasile Simiocenco ; January 8, 1947 , Crisan ) - Romanian kayaker , played for the Romanian national team throughout the 1970s. Participant of two summer Olympic Games, world champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| A country |  Romania |
| Specialization | kayak , 500 m |
| Date of Birth | January 8, 1947 (72 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Crisan , Romania |
| Height | 170 cm |
| The weight | 70 kg |
Biography
Vasile Simiochenko was born on January 8, 1947 in the village of Crisan of Tulcea county. He began to actively engage in rowing in early childhood, was trained at the Steaua Sports Club in Bucharest .
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 1969, when he joined the main team of the Romanian national team and attended the European Championship in Moscow, where he brought the bronze dignity award won in the double kayak program at a distance of 10,000 meters. A year later, he performed at the World Cup in Copenhagen, where he became a bronze medalist in twos at ten kilometers. A year later, at similar competitions in Belgrade, he received bronze in doubles at a thousand meters and won gold in fours at ten thousand meters.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, he won the right to defend the country's honor at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich - he started in the standings of double kayaks at a distance of 1000 meters, made his way to the final stage, but finished only in fifth in the decisive race. The following season, at the World Championships in Finnish Tampere, he twice went up to the podium: he won bronze medals in the relay 4 × 500 m and in the ten-kilometer four-piece kayak race. In 1975, at the world championship in Belgrade, he took silver in fours at ten kilometers. Being one of the leaders of the rowing team of Romania, he successfully qualified for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal - in four at a thousand meters he showed the fourth result in the final, not reaching the prize positions.
After the Montreal Olympics, Simyachenko remained in the main squad of the Romanian national team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1977, he performed at the World Championships in Bulgarian Sofia, where he won the silver award in the half-kilometer race of four-seater kayaks. Soon after the end of these competitions, he decided to end his sports career, losing his place in the national team to young Romanian rowers.
Links
- Vasile Simochenko - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Vasile Simochenko - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )