Nikita Andreevich Morgachev

Nikita Andrejewitsch Morgatschow ( Russian: Никита Андреевич Моргачёв ; born May 3, 1981 in Moscow ) is a Russian rower .

Career

Morgachev finished sixth in the double scull at the 1998 Junior World Championships . The following year, he took the first time at the world championships in adult class in part, but finished with the Russian sculls only the 16th place. In 2002 Morgachev rowed a double scull to eighth place at the U23 World Championships . In 2005 Morgatschow won a regatta in the rowing World Cup in a double scull for the first time , and at the 2005 World Championships he finished eleventh. In 2006 he rowed in quadruples and finished sixth at the world championships . The following year, the quadruple finished seventh at the World Championships . At the European Championships in 2007 , Nikita Morgatschow, Alexei Swirin , Alexander Kornilow and Nikael Bikuamfantse won the first ever European title in the men's quadruple scull . At his first Olympic participation in Beijing in 2008 , Morgachev finished seventh with the double foursome.

At the 2009 World Championships , Morgachev rowed eighth in tenth place, and at the European Championships he finished fifth in the double scull. In 2010 he returned to the double foursome and finished fifth at the European Championships and sixth at the World Championships . After a fifth place at the 2011 World Championships , the Russian double-fours won the 2011 European Championships in the line-up Nikita Morgachev, Alexei Swirin, Igor Salow and Sergei Fedorovzew . In 2012, he finished eighth at the Olympic Games .

After a ninth place with the double foursome at the European Championships in 2013 , Morgachev switched back to the Russian eighth in 2014 and won the silver medal with this at the European Championships ; at the world championships , the eighth reached the sixth place. In 2015, bronze at the European Championships was followed by fifth place at the World Championships . In 2016 Morgatschow returned to the double fours and won bronze at the European Championships in Brandenburg an der Havel .

Only one Russian boat started at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The four without a helmsman was made up of Anton Saruzki , Artyom Kosov, Nikita Morgachev and Wladislaw Ryabzew. These four rowers were among the 9 of 28 reported rowers who had not been banned due to a lack of doping tests outside of Russia or proven involvement in the Russian doping system. This short-term combination of four achieved tenth place at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Web links

• Nikita Andrejewitsch Morgatschow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Nikita Andrejewitsch Morgatschow at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )