Alexey Dergunov Explained

Birth Place:Oral, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Height:187 cm
Weight:95 kg
Sport:Canoe sprint
Coach:Andrey Shantarovich (national)
Alexander Akunishnikov (personal)
Club:Akzhayik
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Alexey Viktorovich Dergunov (Russian: Алексей Викторович Дергунов; born 16 September 1984) is a Kazakhstani canoe sprinter 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. At the 2016 Rio Games he failed to reach the finals of the K-1 200 m and K-2 1000 m events.

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.