Yevgeny Viktorovich Ignatov

Yevgeny Ignatov
Full name	Yevgeny Viktorovich Ignatov
nation	Russia
birthday	11 March 1979 (age 41)
place of birth	Voronezh ,  Soviet Union
size	181 cm
Weight	93 kg
job	Canoeists
Career
discipline	Canoe slalom
Boat class	One canoe Two canoe
National squad	since 2000
status	resigned
End of career	2011
Medal table
World Cup medals 6 × 4 × 0 × EM medals 4 × 6 × 0 ×
Canoe World Championships gold Zagreb 2005 C-2 200 m gold Szeged 2006 C-2 200 m gold Duisburg 2007 C-2 200 m silver Duisburg 2007 C-4 200 m gold Dartmouth 2009 C-1 4 × 200 m relay silver Dartmouth 2009 C-2 200 m silver Dartmouth 2009 C-2 500 m gold Poznan 2010 C-1 4 × 200 m relay silver Poznan 2010 C-2 200 m gold Szeged 2011 C-1 4 × 200 m relay European Canoe Championships silver Poznan 2006 C-4 200 m silver Poznan 2006 C-4 500 m gold Račice 2006 C-2 200 m gold Pontevedra 2007 C-4 200 m silver Pontevedra 2007 C-2 200 m gold Milan 2008 C-4 200 m silver Milan 2008 C-2 200 m gold Brandenburg 2009 C-1 4 × 200 m relay silver Brandenburg 2009 C-2 200 m silver Trasona 2010 C-2 200 m

Yevgeny Wiktorowitsch Ignatow ( Russian Евгений Викторович Игнатов ; born March  11, 1979 in Voronezh , Central Russia ) is a former Russian canoeist , 6-time world champion and 4-time European champion.

Athletic career

From 2005 to 2011 Ignatow won 6 gold and 4 silver medals at the Canoe World Championships . He was also European champion four times.

At the 2005 World Championships in Zagreb , he and Nikolai Lipkin were world champions in the two-man canoe (200 m) ahead of the two Germans Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek . He was able to defend this title at the World Championships in 2006 and 2007 , his new partner was Ivan Schtyl . At the 2009 World Championships in Dartmouth , Canada , he won the gold medal in the single canoe (4 × 200 m relay) together with Viktor Melantjew , Iwan Schtyl and Nikolai Lipkin . He was able to defend this title in Poznan in 2010 , and Mikhail Pavlov took the place of Viktor Melantjew . In 2011 in Szeged he again won the gold medal in the single canoe (4 × 200 m relay), this time with Wiktor Melantjew , Iwan Schtyl and Alexei Korowaschkow .

Ignatov is multiple Russian champion.

Since the end of his sporting career, he has worked as a coach of the Voronezh youth team. In 2015 he ran for the Patriots of Russia party in the Voronezh Oblast Duma elections. His party received a total of 5,834 votes (0.62%) with a turnout of 50.4%.

Private

Ignatow is married and has one son.

Awards (selection)

• 2007: Honored Master of Sports of Russia

Web links

• Eugeni Ignatov on canoeresults.eu (English)
• Evgeny Ignatov , zap.norex.ca (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Игнатов Евгений Викторович ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , hall.aaacup.ru (Russian) 
2. ↑ Воронежская областная дума , vrnoblduma.ru (Russian)
3. ↑ Результата Выборов , voronezh.vybory.izbirkom.ru (Russian)
4. ↑ Игнатов Евгений , ruchampions.com (Russian)