Sergei Kinjakin

Sergei Ivanovich Kinjakin ( Russian Сергей Иванович Кинякин ; born October 6, 1961 in Bolshaya Sarovka , Tomsk Oblast ) is a former Soviet rower who started for Belarus after 1992 .

Kinjakin began his career in the Soviet national rowing team in double sculls . At the World Rowing Championships in 1982 he finished eleventh, in 1983 he reached seventh place. After switching to the four-four , he won his first world title in 1986 , followed by the second title in 1987 . At the Olympic Games in 1988 , only Sergei Kinjakin from the world championship boat sat in the quad scull, while the newly assembled boat rowed to fourth place.

At the World Rowing Championships in 1989 he formed together with Valery Dossenko , with whom Kinjakin had already become world champion twice, a double scull and reached seventh place. In 1990, the two switched back to the double fours, with which they could become world champions again in 1990 and 1991 . At the 1992 Olympic Games , the double foursome competed in the 1990 and 1991 world championship for the CIS , but could not qualify for the final and finished in seventh place in the final accounts.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , Kinjakin competed for Belarus for the first time at the 1993 World Rowing Championships and took tenth place with the double foursome. At the 1996 Olympic Games , Kinjakin finished eleventh with the Belarusian double foursome.

Web links

• Sergei Kinjakin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Sergei Kinjakin at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )