Alexander "Sasha" Belonogoff ( born Alexander "Sasha" Belonogoff ; born , ) is an Australian rower who played for the Australian national rowing team from 2008-2016. Silver medalist of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , bronze medalist of the World Cup, winner and medalist of many regattas of international importance.
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Biography
Alexander Belonogoff was born on April 17, 1990 in the small town of Maura , Queensland , Australia . He spent his childhood in Rockhampton . A descendant of Russian emigrants of the first wave , on his Instagram page called himself “Russian from Rockhampton” [1] .
He studied at the University of Sydney , was a member of the university rowing team.
He achieved his first serious success in the international arena in the 2008 season, when he joined the Australian national team and attended the World Junior Championships in Austria, from where he brought the bronze dignity award won in the doubles standings. A year later, at the youth world championships he became a bronze medalist in the doubles. In 2012, in the same discipline, he received bronze at the World Youth Championship in Lithuania.
Since 2013, he played at the adult level, made his debut in the World Cup standings, in particular, at the home stage in Sydney, he won the bronze medal in doubles.
In 2014, together with team-mate James MacRae, he won the bronze medal in doubles at the World Championships in Amsterdam - only teams from Croatia and Italy passed them in the final. He was among the winners at several stages of the World Cup.
At the 2015 World Championships in Egbilet, he took fifth place in the deuces.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro - here, together with James MacRae, Karsten Forsterling and Cameron Gerdleston, he showed the second result in doubles , losing only to rowers from Germany, and thereby became winner of a silver Olympic medal.
Notes
- ↑ Dmitry Kuznetsov. Ambush Regiment. Our people in foreign teams - participants of the Olympics . Life (August 5, 2016). Date of treatment February 1, 2019.
Links
- Alexander Belonogoff - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Alexander Belonogoff - profile on the FISA website
- Alexander Belonogoff (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee
- Alexander Belonogoff (English) - page on the website of the Australian Olympic Committee