Birth Date: | [1] |
Birth Place: | Yekaterinburg, Russia |
Sport: | Canoe sprint |
Club: | Dynamo Omsk |
Height: | 184 cm |
Weight: | 80 kg |
Retired: | 2013[2] |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Salakhov (Russian: Евгений Александрович Салахов; born 25 January 1979) is a Russian former canoe sprinter. Competing in the K-1 event he won a silver medal at the 2011 and a bronze at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.[1]
Salakhov also participated in the 2000, 2008 and 2012 Olympics, with the best result of fifth place in 2012.[1] His mother is a former canoe coach. Salakhov is married to Yulia Salakhova (née Kamalova, unrelated to the Olympic canoer Yuliana Salakhova). They have a daughter Eva, and work as canoe coaches in Sysert.[2] [3]