Yevgeniy Alexeyev (canoeist)
Yevgeniy Petrovich Alexeyev (Template:Lang-kk; born December 11, 1977 in Shymkent) is a Kazakhstani sprint canoeist.<ref name=london2012>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite sports-reference</ref> He won a gold medal, as a member of the Kazakhstan men's kayak four, at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, and silver at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He also captured a bronze medal, along with his partner Alexey Podoinikov in the men's kayak doubles (1000 m) at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Alexeyev qualified for the men's K-2 1000 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by placing first from the 2011 Asian Canoe Sprint Championships in Tehran, Iran.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Alexeyev and his partner Alexey Dergunov paddled to a third-place finish, and eleventh overall in the B-final by approximately two seconds behind the winning Danish pair Kim Wraae Knudsen and Emil Stær Simensen, posting their best Olympic time of 3:14.867.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Three days later, the Kazakh pair edged out Japan's Momotaro Matsushita and Hiroki Watanabe for first place by twenty-four hundredths of a second (0.24), in the B-final of the men's K-2 200 metres, clocking at 35.494 seconds.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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- 1977 births
- Kazakhstani male canoeists
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists of Kazakhstan
- Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games medalists in canoeing
- People from Shymkent
- Canoeists at the 2002 Asian Games
- Canoeists at the 2006 Asian Games
- Canoeists at the 2010 Asian Games
- Canoeists at the 2014 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for Kazakhstan
- Asian Games silver medalists for Kazakhstan
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Kazakhstan
- Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
