Alexander Viktorovich Lukyanov

Alexander Lukyanov
Full name	Alexander Viktorovich Lukyanov
nation	Soviet Union → Russia
birthday	August 19, 1949
place of birth	Moscow ,  Soviet Union
size	160 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	rowing
status	resigned
End of career	2001
Medal table
Olympic Summer Games 1 × 2 × 1 × Rowing World Championships 2 × 1 × 1 × European Rowing Championships 1 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold Montreal 1976 Foursome with silver Moscow 1980 Two with silver Seoul 1988 Eighth bronze Atlanta 1996 Eighth  World championships gold Lucerne 1974 Two with gold Nottingham 1975 Foursome with silver Amsterdam 1977 Eighth bronze St. Catharines 1999 Eighth  European championships bronze Copenhagen 1971 Two with gold Moscow 1973 Two with
Last change: August 30, 2016

Alexander Wiktorowitsch Lukjanow ( Russian Александр Викторович Лукьянов ; born August 19, 1949 in Moscow ) is a former Soviet rower who started for Russia after 1992 . The sporting career of the 1.60 m tall helmsman lasted thirty years, during which he won four Olympic medals, among other things.

Athletic career

Lukjanow won his first international medal at the European Rowing Championships in 1971 when he steered the two-man with helmsman with Nikolai Ivanov and Vladimir Jeschinow to third place behind the boats from the GDR and Czechoslovakia. Two years later, at the 1973 European Rowing Championships , Ivanov, Jeschinow and Lukjanow won gold in front of the GDR boat and the Romanians. The Soviet two-man also won the title at the 1974 World Rowing Championships . In 1975 all three rowers switched to the four with a helmsman and won the title at the World Championships in Nottingham together with Alexander Klepikow and Alexander Sema . The following year, the Russian four-man with Jeschinow, Ivanov, Klepikow, Mikhail Kuznetsov and Lukyanov also won the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal after Kuznetsov had jumped in for Sema in the final.

At the rowing world championships in 1977 , the five Olympic champions from the previous year won the silver medal behind the GDR boat with the Soviet eighth . In his hometown of Moscow, Lukyanov drove the two-man with Viktor Pereversev and Gennady Kryuchkin to the silver medal behind the boat from the GDR at the 1980 Olympic Games . In the same line-up, the two took sixth place at the 1981 World Rowing Championships .

After a long break, Lukyanov took part again in 1987 world championships , he finished seventh with the eighth place. The following year, the Soviet eighth driven by Lukjanow won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Seoul behind the Germany eighth .

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Lukyanov competed in the 1996 Olympic Games with the Russian eighth and won the bronze medal behind the Dutch eighth and Germany eighth. At the World Rowing Championships in 1998 , Lukyanov finished fourth with eighth. The following year, Lukyanov reached the final in two boat classes at the 1999 World Rowing Championships , after finishing sixth in two, he won the bronze medal in eighth. At his fifth Olympic start in Sydney in 2000 , Lukjanow won no medal for the first time, he finished ninth with eighth. Even in his last major international appearance at the World Rowing Championships in 2001 , Lukyanov no longer reached an A-final, he took seventh place in two and eighth place in eight.

Web links

• Alexander Wiktorowitsch Lukjanow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Alexander Wiktorowitsch Lukjanow at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Rowing World Championships in figure eight

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European championships in two with a helmsman
2. ↑ World championships in two with helmsman