Alexey Dergunov

Alexey Dergunov

Dergunov at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born 16 September 1984 (1984-09-16) (age 32)
Oral, Kazakhstan[1]
Height 187 cm (6 ft 2 in)[2]
Weight 95 kg (209 lb)
Sport
Sport Canoe sprint
Club Akzhayik[3]
Coached by Andrey Shantarovich (national)
Alexander Akunishnikov (personal)[3]

Alexey Viktorovich Dergunov (Russian: Алексей Викторович Дергунов, born 16 September 1984) is a Kazakhstani sprint canoer who won a gold and a silver medal in doubles (K-2 200 m and 1000 m) at the 2014 Asian Games. Earlier at the 2008 Summer Olympics he was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m event (with Dmitry Kaltenberger). At the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing with Yevgeny Alekseyev, he was knocked out in the first round of the K-2 200 m but reached the semifinals of the K-2 1000 m.[1] At the 2016 Rio Games he failed to reach the finals of the K-1 200 m and K-2 1000 m events.[2]

Dergunov took up kayaking in 1996. He has a degree in physical education from West Kazakhstan State University. He is married to Natalia and has a son Nikon.[3]

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