Alexey Kuznetsov (field athlete)

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Alexey Kuznetsov
Paralympic athletics
Disability classF54
EventThrowing events
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Paralympic Games 0 2 0
World Championships
 1 1 1
European Championships
 3 1 0
Paralympic athletics
Paralympic Games
Representing  
RPC
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Javelin F54
Representing  Russia
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Javelin F54/55/56
IPC Athletics World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Christchurch Javelin F54–56
Silver medal – second place 2013 Lyon Javelin F54–56
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Doha Javelin F54
IPC Athletics European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Stadskanaal Javelin F54
Gold medal – first place 2014 Swansea Javelin F54
Gold medal – first place 2016 Grosseto Javelin F54
Silver medal – second place 2012 Stadskanaal Discus F54

Alexey Alexeyevich Kuznetsov (Алексей Алексеевич Кузнецов; born 3 April 1981) is a

Paralympian athlete from Russia who competes in category F54 throwing events.[1] He participated in the 2008 and 2012 Paralympics and won a silver medal in the javelin throw
in 2012.

Personal history

Kuznetsov was born in Saransk in the former Soviet Union in 1981. At the age of five he fell from a fifth floor of a building, resulting in a spinal trauma.[2] He was educated at the International Independent University of Environmental and Political Sciences in Moscow where he studied philology.[2] He is married to his wife, Daria, and they have two sons.[2]

Athletics career

Before turning to athletics Kuznetsov was a world class

arm-wrestler, but decided to take up track and field to become a Paralympic champion.[2] He began training in Cheboksary in 2007 and by the following year he was representing Russia at his first Summer Paralympics, Beijing 2008. In China he entered the javelin throw in a mixed points F53–54 category event, finishing sixth overall.[2]

In the build up to the

Luis Alberto Zepeda Felix, leaving Kuznetsov with the silver medal.[2]

In the build-up to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, Kuznetsov managed to retain his European title in the javelin throw in both Swansea in 2014 and again in Grosseto in 2016. The world title proved more elusive, with a silver medal in the 2013 World Championships in Lyon and a bronze medal in the 2015 World Championships in Doha.[2]

References

  1. Grosseto 2016 IPC Athletics European Championships. Archived
    from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "KUZNETSOV Alexey". IPC. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2016.

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