Valentin Demyanenko

Valentin Demyanenko
Demyanenko at the 2013 World Cup
Full name	Valentin Yuryevich Demyanenko
nation	Ukraine (until 2009) Azerbaijan (since 2009)
birthday	23 October 1983 (age 36)
place of birth	Cherkassy ,  Soviet Union
size	195 cm
Weight	92 kg
job	Canoeists
Career
discipline	Canoe print
Boat class	Canadians
Trainer	Anatoly Dudnyk Dmitri Sablinin
National squad	since 2005
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 4 × 2 × 0 × European championships 3 × 2 × 0 × European Games 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver 2016 Rio de Janeiro C-1 200 m Canoe World Championships gold 2005 Zagreb C-1 200 m silver 2006 Szeged C-1 200 m gold 2009 Dartmouth C-1 200 m gold 2011 Szeged C-1 200 m silver 2011 Szeged C-1 4 × 200 m gold 2013 Duisburg C-1 500 m European Canoe Championships silver 2005 Poznan C-1 200 m gold 2009 Brandenburg an der Havel C-1 200 m gold 2011 Belgrade C-1 200 m gold 2011 Belgrade C-1 500 m silver 2013 Montemor-o-Velho C-1 200 m  European Games silver 2015 Baku C-1 200 m

Valentin Jurijewtisch Demjanenko (born October 23, 1983 in Cherkassy , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian - Azerbaijani canoeist .

Career

Demjanenko won his first international title at the U23 European Championships over 500 meters in the singles canoe.

In the same year his coaches registered him for the European Senior Championships . In the single canoe over 200 meters he won the silver medal in Poznan, Poland, and was only a tenth of a second behind Maxim Opalew from Russia.

A month later he took part in the 2005 World Championships in Zagreb . He finished fourth in the single canoe over 500 meters. In the single canoe over 200 meters, he was able to push Opalew to second place this time and secure the world title.

Since there were no 200-meter races at the 2008 Summer Olympics , he switched to the 500-meter distance. However, he could not qualify for the Beijing Games. At the World Championships in Szeged he competed again over 200 meters. However, he could not defend his title and took second place behind the Russian Nikolai Lipkin .

In 2009 Demjanenko moved to the Azerbaijan Canoe Association. In 2009 and 2011 he was again world and European champion in the C-1 over 200 meters. In addition, he also won gold over 500 meters in the single canoe at the European Championships in 2011 and was world champion in the C-1 over 200 meters for the fourth time in 2013 .

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , he finished 25th in the C-1 over 200 m . As a silver medalist at the first European Games in 2015 , he traveled to his second Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro a year later . Again he competed in the C-1 over 200 m and this time won the silver medal.

Web links

• Valentin Demjanenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on canoeicf.com ( English )