Mikhail Nikolayevich Kuznetsov (rower)

Mikhail Kuznetsov
Full name	Mikhail Nikolayevich Kuznetsov
nation	Soviet Union , Russia
birthday	June 4th 1952
place of birth	Moscow ,  Soviet Union
size	170 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
discipline	rowing
society	ZSK WMF (Moscow)
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic Summer Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Rowing World Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Montreal 1976 Foursome with a helmsman  World championships silver Amsterdam 1977 Eighth
Last change: March 7, 2016

Mikhail Nikolajewitsch Kuznetsov ( Russian Михаил Николаевич Кузнецов ; born June 4, 1952 in Moscow ) is a former Russian- Soviet rower and Olympic champion.

Career

Kuznetsov started at the 1976 Summer Olympics in a foursome with helmsman with Vladimir Jeschinow , Nikolai Ivanov , Alexander Klepikow and the helmsman Alexander Lukyanov and won the gold medal in front of the teams from the GDR and the FRG . At the rowing world championships in 1977 on the Bosbaan regatta course in Amsterdam , the five Olympic champions from the previous year won the silver medal behind the GDR boat with the Soviet eighth .

After winning the Olympic gold medal, Kuznetsov was named the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. At the Soviet Championships Kuznetsov won the gold medal twice: in 1974 in two without a helmsman and in 1977 in eight.

Awards

• 1976: Honored Master of Sports of the USSR
• 1976: Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union

Web links

• Michail Kuznetsov in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Michail Kuznetsov at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Mikhail Kuznetsov ( Memento from April 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in the Great Olympic Encyclopedia (Russian)
• Михаил Кузнецов: результаты выступления на Олимпийских играх. olympteka.ru, accessed March 7, 2016 (Russian). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kuznetsov on infosport.ru (Russian)