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Aleksandr Kostoglod
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	2004 Athens	C-2 1000 m
	2008 Beijing	C-2 500 m
	2004 Athens	C-2 500 m
World Championships
	1994 Mexico City	C-4 200 m
	1998 Szeged	C-2 1000 m
	1999 Milan	C-2 1000 m
	2002 Seville	C-4 200 m
	2005 Zagreb	C-4 200 m
	2006 Szeged	C-2 500 m
	1993 Copenhagen	C-4 500 m
	1993 Copenhagen	C-4 1000 m
	1997 Dartmouth	C-4 1000 m
	2003 Gainesville	C-2 1000 m
	2009 Dartmouth	C-4 200 m
	1997 Dartmouth	C-4 500 m
	1998 Szeged	C-4 200 m
	1998 Szeged	C-4 500 m
	1999 Milan	C-2 500 m
	2001 Poznań	C-4 200 m
	2002 Seville	C-2 500 m
	2010 Poznań	C-2 500 m
Disqualified	2003 Gainesville	C-2 500 m
Disqualified	2003 Gainesville	C-4 200 m
Disqualified	2003 Gainesville	C-4 500 m

Aleksandr Viktorovich Kostoglod (Russian: Александр Викторович Костоглод, born 31 May 1974) is a Soviet-born, Russian sprint canoeist who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals, with two silvers (2004: C-2 1000 m, 2008: C-2 500 m) and one bronze (2004: C-2 500 m). Kostoglod is a six-time world champion gold medallist in the Canadian canoe (C) events.

Kostoglod did not take up canoeing until the age of fourteen, at the suggestion of family friend and double world champion Vladimir Ladosha. Within a year he was champion of the USSR in his age group. By 18 he was senior national champion and competing at the Barcelona Olympics, He was disappointed to finish tenth in the C-1 1000 m but has since admitted that as a youngster he was relying on his natural strength to make up for his lack of technique. It did not help that his coach Alexander Abramiants was excluded from the Unified Team delegation to Barcelona.

He won the first of his six World Championship gold medals in 1994, at the age of 20, in Mexico City. In 1998, with Maxim Opalev now representing Russia in the C-1 events, Kostoglod teamed up with Aleksandr Kovalyov for the C-2. The pairing was an immediate success, winning two consecutive world 1000 m titles in 1998 and 1999. His other three medals have all come in the C-4 events. Three medals he won at the 2003 championships in Gainesville were stripped from Kostoglod when his teammate Sergey Ulegin tested positive for doping.

However, with no C-4 event on the schedule, Olympic medals were to prove more elusive. At the 2000 Sydney Games, he and Kovalyov finished fourth in the C-2 1000m final, missing out on a medal by just 0.14 sec. At the 2004 Athens Olympics they were finally rewarded with two medals, silver in the C-2 1000 m and bronze in the C-2 500 m.

In 2006, Kostoglod and Kovalyov came fifth at the European Championships and sixth at the World Championships in the C-2 1000 m. For the C-2 500 m events however Kostoglod was partnered instead by Ulegin. Together they became both European and world champions, finishing over a second ahead of their nearest challengers, the German pairing of Nuck and Holtz, in both finals. Kostoglod won a silver in the C-2 500 m event with Ulegin at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Kostoglod is 185 cm (6'1") tall and weighs 93 kg (204 lbs).

References

Canoe09.ca profile
"ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on January 5, 2010. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
"ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2009-11-09. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Aleksandr Kostoglod". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.

World Champions in Men's Canoe Sprint C-2 500 m

1971: Romania (Gheorghe Danielov & Gheorghe Simionov)
1973: Soviet Union (Oleg Kalidov & Vitaliy Slobodenyuk)
1974: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Vinogradov & Yuri Lobanov)
1975: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Vinogradov & Yuri Lobanov)
1977: Hungary (László Foltán & István Vaskuti)
1978: Hungary (László Foltán & István Vaskuti)
1979: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Istvan Capusta)
1981: Hungary (László Foltán & István Vaskuti)
1982: Yugoslavia (Matija Ljubek & Mirko Nišović)
1983: Yugoslavia (Matija Ljubek & Mirko Nišović)
1985: Hungary (János Sarusi Kis & István Vaskuti)
1986: Hungary (János Sarusi Kis & István Vaskuti)
1987: Poland (Marek Łbik & Marek Dopierała)
1989: Soviet Union (Viktor Reneysky & Nicolae Juravschi)
1990: Soviet Union (Viktor Reneysky & Nicolae Juravschi)
1991: Hungary (Attila Pálizs & Attila Szabó)
1993: Hungary (György Kolonics & Csaba Horváth)
1994: Romania (Gheorghe Andriev & Grigore Obreja)
1995: Hungary (György Kolonics & Csaba Horváth)
1997: Hungary (György Kolonics & Csaba Horváth)
1998: Hungary (György Kolonics & Csaba Horváth)
1999: Poland (Daniel Jędraszko & Paweł Baraszkiewicz)
2001: Cuba (Ibrahim Rojas & Leobaldo Pereira)
2002: Cuba (Ibrahim Rojas & Ledis Balceiro)
2003: Poland (Paweł Baraszkiewicz & Daniel Jędraszko)
2005: Germany (Christian Gille & Tomasz Wylenzek)
2006: Russia (Aleksandr Kostoglod & Sergey Ulegin)
2007: Hungary (György Kozmann & György Kolonics)
2009: Germany (Stefan Holtz & Robert Nuck)
2010: Romania (Alexandru Dumitrescu & Victor Mihalachi)
2011: Romania (Alexandru Dumitrescu & Victor Mihalachi)
2013: Russia (Viktor Melantyev & Ivan Shtyl)
2014: Russia (Alexey Korovashkov & Ivan Shtyl)
2015: Russia (Pavel Petrov & Mikhail Pavlov)
2017: Russia (Ivan Shtyl & Viktor Melantyev)
2018: Brazil (Erlon Silva & Isaquias Queiroz)
2019: China (Li Qiang & Xing Song)
2021: Italy (Nicolae Craciun & Daniele Santini)
2022: Spain (Cayetano García & Pablo Martínez)
2023: Germany (Peter Kretschmer & Tim Hecker)

World Champions in Men's Canoe Sprint C-2 1000 m

1938: Germany (Rupert Weinstabl & Karl Proisl)
1950: Czechoslovakia (Jan Brzák-Felix & Bohumil Kudrna)
1954: Austria (Kurt Liebhart & Engelbert Lulla)
1958: Romania (Dumitru Alexe & Simion Ismailciuc)
1963: Romania (Achim Sidorov & Alexe Iacovici)
1966: Romania (Vicol Calabiciov & Serghei Covaliov)
1970: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Serghei Covaliov)
1971: Hungary (Tamás Wichmann & Gyula Petrikovics)
1973: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Serghei Covaliov)
1974: Soviet Union (Vladas Česiūnas & Yuri Lobanov)
1975: Hungary (Gábor Árva & Péter Povázsay)
1977: Soviet Union (Vasyl Yurchenko & Yuri Lobanov)
1978: Hungary (Tamás Buday & Oszkár Frey)
1979: Soviet Union (Vasyl Yurchenko & Yuri Lobanov)
1981: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Toma Simionov)
1982: Hungary (János Sarusi Kis & Gyula Hajdu)
1983: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Toma Simionov)
1985: East Germany (Olaf Heukrodt & Alexander Schuck)
1986: Hungary (János Sarusi Kis & István Vaskuti)
1987: Soviet Union (Yuriy Gurin & Valeriy Veshko)
1989: Denmark (Christian Frederiksen & Arne Nielsson)
1990: East Germany (Ulrich Papke & Ingo Spelly)
1991: Germany (Ulrich Papke & Ingo Spelly)
1993: Denmark (Christian Frederiksen & Arne Nielsson)
1994: Germany (Andreas Dittmer & Gunar Kirchbach)
1995: Hungary (György Kolonics & Csaba Horváth)
1997: Germany (Gunar Kirchbach & Matthias Röder)
1998: Russia (Aleksandr Kovalyov & Aleksandr Kostoglod)
1999: Russia (Aleksandr Kovalyov & Aleksandr Kostoglod)
2001: Poland (Marcin Kobierski & Michał Śliwiński)
2002: Poland (Marcin Kobierski & Michał Śliwiński)
2003: Romania (Silviu Simioncencu & Florin Popescu)
2005: Germany (Christian Gille & Tomasz Wylenzek)
2006: Hungary (György Kozmann & György Kolonics)
2007: Germany (Christian Gille & Tomasz Wylenzek)
2009: Germany (Erik Leue & Tomasz Wylenzek)
2010: Romania (Alexandru Dumitrescu & Victor Mihalachi)
2011: Germany (Stefan Holtz & Tomasz Wylenzek)
2013: Hungary (Henrik Vasbányai & Róbert Mike)
2014: Romania (Alexandru Dumitrescu & Victor Mihalachi)
2015: Brazil (Erlon Silva & Isaquias Queiroz)
2017: Germany (Peter Kretschmer & Yul Oeltze)
2018: Germany (Peter Kretschmer & Yul Oeltze)
2019: China (Liu Hao & Wang Hao)
2021: Russian Canoe Federation (Kirill Shamshurin & Vladislav Chebotar)
2022: Germany (Sebastian Brendel & Tim Hecker)
2023: Italy (Nicolae Craciun & Daniele Santini)
2024: Authorised Neutral Athletes (Zakhar Petrov & Ivan Dmitriev)

World Champions in Men's Canoe Sprint C-4 200 m