Valery Vladimirovich Kleschnjow

Valery Kleschnev
Full name	Valery Vladimirovich Kleschnjow
nation	Soviet Union , Russia
birthday	October 15, 1958
place of birth	Leningrad ,  Soviet Union
size	190 cm
Weight	87 kg
Career
discipline	Row , skull
National squad	since 1973
status	resigned
End of career	1986
Medal table
Olympic rowing regatta 0 × 1 × 0 × Rowing World Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Junior World Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Moscow 1980 Double fours  World championships bronze Lucerne 1982 Double fours  Junior World Championships gold Montreal 1975 Double fours
Last modified: June 5, 2016

Valery Vladimirovich Kleschnjow ( Russian Валерий Владимирович Клешнёв , also known as Valery Kleshnev ; born October 15, 1958 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet rower and Olympic silver medalist.

Kleschnjow began his international rowing career as a 17-year-old with a participation in the Junior World Championships in Montreal, Canada, where he in the quadruple sculls won a gold medal. In the following year he rowed to fourth place in the single at the junior World Cup in Austria. In 1980 he was a team member of the Soviet double foursome at the Summer Olympics in Moscow. Together with Juri Schapotschka , Evgeni Barbakow and Mikola Dowgan , he won the silver medal behind the selection of the GDR at the Olympic rowing regatta . Two years later he was bronze at the 1982 World Rowing Championships in quadruples with Viktor Rudakowitsch , Vladimir Koldyshkin and Alexander Sdrawomyslow . He retired in 1986 after winning a total of four national championship titles in singles, double sculls and double sculls.

After his active career as an athlete, Kleschnjow became a sports scientist, in 1991 he received his doctorate at the Saint Petersburg Research Institute for Physical Culture . He later worked as a biomechanic with the Australian national rowing team at the Australian Institute of Sport for seven years . From 2005 to 2009 he held a similar position in the British Association of British Rowing . Meanwhile he leads the company BioRow , with which he advises national rowing teams worldwide, and publishes in the field of biomechanics of rowing.

Web links

• Valeri Wladimirowitsch Kleschnjow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Valery Vladimirovich Kleschnjow at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Volker Nolte (Ed.): Rowing Faster . 2nd, expanded edition. Human Kinetics, Champaign 2011, ISBN 978-0-7360-9040-7 , pp. 318 f . (English).