Yuri Viktorovich Postrigai

Yuri Postrigai
2013
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
Career
discipline	Canoe slalom
Boat class	Two-person kayak
society	Dynamo Moscow
National squad	since 2006
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 1 × EM medals 2 × 1 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold London 2012 Two-person kayak 200 m Canoe World Championships bronze Szeged 2011 K-1 500 m gold Duisburg 2013 K-2 200 m silver Duisburg 2013 K-1 200 m relay silver Milan 2015 K-2 200 m European Canoe Championships gold Belgrade 2011 K-1 500 m gold Montemor-o-Velho 2013 K-2 200 m silver Brandenburg an der Havel 2014 K-2 200 m bronze Brandenburg an der Havel 2014 K-1 200 m

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

1. ↑ 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.
2. ↑ Viktoria Sosnowskich: ЮРИЙ ПОСТРИГАЙ: ОЛИМПИЙСКОЕ ЗОЛОТО - С БОГОМ ПОПОЛАМ . bg52.ru. October 26, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
3. ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 13 августа 2012 года № 1165 (Russian)
4. ↑ sportufo.ru (Russian)