Andrey Smirnov (curler) explained

Andrey Smirnov
Birth Date:28 August 1973
Birth Place:Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), RSFSR, Soviet Union
Curling Club:Rodnik
Skip:Andrey Smirnov
Third:Konstantin Kurokhtin
Second:Svetlana Pakhomova
Lead:Alexander Shevchenko
Alternate:Marat Romanov

Andrey Viktorovich Smirnov (Russian: Андре́й Ви́кторович Смирно́в; born 28 August 1973) is a Russian wheelchair curler playing as skip for the Russian wheelchair curling team. He and his team won the silver medal at the 2014 Paralympic Games and gold medals at the 2012 and 2015 World Championships.

Biography

As a child Smirnov did speed skating, but after an accident at the age of 12, when he fell into an elevator pit on a building site, he performed sports including arm wrestling,[1] darts, tennis and basketball.[2]

Besides his success in international tournaments Smirnov won bronze at the 2011-12 Russian National Championships.[3] He is a member of the local sports club "Rodnik" in Yekaterinburg.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.1tv.ru/news/sport/253285 Паралимпийские деревни уже открыли свои двери в Сочи
  2. http://curlingrussia.com/mama-serebryanogo-prizera-paralimpijskix-igr-po-kerlingu-andreya-smirnova-rasskazala-kak-paralimiec-shel-k-pobede/ Татьяна Михайловна Смирнова рассказала, как её сын шёл к успеху
  3. Web site: Чемпионат России по кёрлингу на колясках 2011/2012 . 2016-01-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111452/http://www.spbniifk.ru/news_2012-05-4.html . 2016-03-04 . dead .
  4. http://www.oblgazeta.ru/society/12656/ Подготовка к чемпионату России 2013/2014
  5. http://pravo.gov.ru:8080/page.aspx?92237 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 17 марта 2014 года № 144 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»