Английская Википедия:Andrey Smirnov (curler)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Other uses Шаблон:Infobox curler Andrey Viktorovich Smirnov (Шаблон:Lang-ru; 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]
Awards
- Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I class (17 March 2014) – for the huge contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, and for the high athletic performances at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi[5]
- Merited Master of Sports of Russia
References
External links
- Шаблон:Sports links
- Profile at the International Paralympic Committee's website
Шаблон:Russia-curling-bio-stub
Шаблон:Russia-Paralympic-medalist-stub
- ↑ Паралимпийские деревни уже открыли свои двери в Сочи
- ↑ Татьяна Михайловна Смирнова рассказала, как её сын шёл к успеху
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Подготовка к чемпионату России 2013/2014
- ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 17 марта 2014 года № 144 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации» Шаблон:Webarchive
- Английская Википедия
- 1973 births
- Living people
- Russian male curlers
- Sportspeople from Yekaterinburg
- Russian wheelchair curlers
- Paralympic silver medalists for Russia
- Wheelchair curlers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
- World wheelchair curling champions
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair curling
- Medalists at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
- Paralympic wheelchair curlers for Russia
- 21st-century Russian people
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