Yuri Viktorovich Postrigai
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Full name | Yuri Viktorovich Postrigai | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | August 31, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Sverdlovsk , Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 185 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 81 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
job | Canoeists | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Canoe slalom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boat class | Two-person kayak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | Dynamo Moscow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National squad | since 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yuri Viktorovich Postrigai ( Russian Юрий Викторович Постригай ; born August 31, 1988 in Sverdlovsk , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian canoeist , 2012 Olympic champion and 2013 world champion.
Athletic career
At the 2009 World Championships in Dartmouth , Postrigai finished fifth (200 m). Two years later he won a gold medal at the European Championships in Belgrade and a bronze medal at the World Championships in Szeged . At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , Postrigai and Alexander Dyachenko won a gold medal in a two-man kayak over 200 meters. At the 2013 World Championships , Postrigai and Dyachenko won a gold (K-2 200 m) and a silver medal (K-1 200 m relay). They set a new world record with 31,182 seconds. At the European Championships 2014 in Brandenburg an der Havel Postrigai and Djatschenko won a silver medal (K-2 200 m) behind Ronald Rauhe and Tom Liebscher from Germany . At the 2015 World Championships in Milan , the duo again took second place, this time behind Sandor Totka and Peter Molnar from Hungary. At the 2015 European Games in Baku , the two Russians only took sixth place (K-2 200 m).
Private
Juri Postrigai is married to Anastassija Postrigai, their son is called Michail (* 2013).
Awards (selection)
- 2012: Order of Friendship
- 2012: Honored Master of Sports of Russia
Web links
- Yuri Wiktorowitsch Postrigai in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Juri Postrigai on canoeresults.eu (English)
- Yuri Postrigai on infosport.ru (Russian)
- Yuri Postrigai on blog-champion.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Igor Jemeljanow: Нас сегодня словно ангелы несли! . sovsport.ru. August 11, 2012. Archived from the original on October 2, 2012. Retrieved on August 12, 2012.
- ↑ Viktoria Sosnowskich: ЮРИЙ ПОСТРИГАЙ: ОЛИМПИЙСКОЕ ЗОЛОТО - С БОГОМ ПОПОЛАМ . bg52.ru. October 26, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
- ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 13 августа 2012 года № 1165 (Russian)
- ↑ sportufo.ru (Russian)
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SURNAME | Postrigai, Yuri Viktorovich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Постригай, Юрий Викторович (Russian); Postrigay, Yury Viktorovich (English) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian canoeist and Olympic champion |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1988 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sverdlovsk , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union |