Rostislav GAITIUKEVICH

Historical Results

Driving cars and motorcycles, meeting friends, spending time with family, motor sports, restoring old cars.

Athlete, Sport Soldier

Bachelor's and Master's Degree from the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism (Moscow, RUS).

Mother, Tatyana Evsyukova.

Russian

Central Army Sports Club [CSKA]

National: Danil Chaban (RUS), Pavel Shcheglovsky (RUS)
Personal: Semyon Makarov (RUS), Anna Makarova (RUS), Oleg Sukhoruchenko (RUS), Rustem Faizov (RUS)

Pilot

Athletics: Competed in middle-distance races starting in high school, and was ninth in the 800m at the Russian Championships.

2016 World Cup in Lake Placid (Four-man - 15th)

February 2020: Concussion in a crash in the two-man at the World Championships. Was unable to compete in the four-man at the event.

Tried out for skeleton and then bobsleigh in 2014. "When I switched from athletics, it was very difficult for me. Usually, former sprinters come to bobsleigh. They know how to start quickly, but I am a 'middle' - hardy, but not explosive. The coach had to work with me a lot and for a long time to make me a good bobsledder. One and a half to two years I had to make up for physics."

Has been a pilot since 2018. (redbull.com, 23 June 2021; rostrus-bob.com; ganc-chas.by, 4 May 2021)

"I really love speed and technique, and in bobsleigh there are both. There is a place to apply strength, to show movement. At the same time, there is an opportunity to tinker with the sled, tune it, think about how to add speed." (redbull.com, 23 June 2021)

To win a gold medal at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. (championat.com, 2 April 2021)

"You can go to the result in different ways. It so happens that someone ended his career having achieved high results, and then it turns out that the athlete had achievements, but he was a bad person. It is important for me to preserve honour and moral qualities. I still try to preserve my face and human dignity." (ganc-chas.by, 4 May 2021)

Boxer Mike Tyson (USA), heavyweight world champion from 1987 to 1990. "I love to look at people who were the best in their sport, and to find something for myself to notice." (ibsf.org; championat.com, 2 April 2021)

"Do what you love." (rusbob.ru)

Master of Sport in Russia (2019)