YURENIA Aleh

Olympic Games

Year	Location	K1 1000m
2012	London, GBR	6

World Championships

Year	Location	K1 500m	K1 1000m	K1 5000m	K2 1000m	K4 1000m
2019	Szeged, HUN	-	6	1	-	-
2018	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	-	-	DSQ	8	5
2017	Racice, CZE	-	4	3	-	-
2015	Milan, ITA	-	5	3	-	-
2014	Moscow, RUS	-	-	-	8	7
2013	Duisburg, GER	-	-	6	2	6
2011	Szeged, HUN	-	5	2	-	-
2010	Poznan, POL	8	3	4	-	-

European Games

Year	Location	K1 1000m	K1 5000m
2019	Minsk, BLR	3	4

European Championships

Year	Location	K1 1000m	K1 5000m
2021	Poznan, POL	9	2
2018	Belgrade, SRB	6	DSQ
2017	Plovdiv, BUL	4	DNF

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	K1 1000m	K2 1000m
2021	1 x 5th	-
2019	1 x 2nd	-
2018	-	1 x 8th
2017	1 x 1st, 1 x 4th	-

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2017	Kayak Single 1000m	World Cup	Belgrade, SRB	3:24.772
2	2019	Kayak Single 1000m	World Cup	Poznan, POL	3:28.296
4	2017	Kayak Single 1000m	World Championships	Racice, CZE	3:29.593
5	2021	Kayak Single 1000m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	3:41.86
8	2018	Kayak Double 1000m	World Championships	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	3:22.143

Legend
C - Canoe, K - Kayak, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Spending time with family, running in the forest, cycling, volleyball. (Athlete, 24 Feb 2020)

Athlete

Mazyr State Pedagogical University, Belarus

Wife Svetlana, one daughter

Belarusian, Russian

Brest Regional Rowing Centre of Olympic Reserve [BLR] / Dynamo [BLR]

Uladzimir Zadolin [personal], BLR, from 2001

2008 for Belarus (grodnonews.by, 13 Jun 2019)

He tried paddling for the first time at age nine and took up the sport at age 11 at the Youth Sports School of Olympic Reserve in Mosty, Belarus. (oblsport.grodno.by, 25 Aug 2019; grodnonews.by, 13 Jun 2019)

He was jogging with his father near the River Neman in Belarus when they saw people kayaking. His father suggested he should try the sport. (canoesport.ru, 19 Feb 2011)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (grodnonews.by, 13 Jun 2019)

Winning bronze in the men's K1 1000m at the 2010 World Championships in Poznan, Poland. (Athlete, 24 Feb 2020)

His first coach Uladzimir Zadolin. (grodnonews.by, 13 Jun 2019)

"You only have to do once the thing you have done a thousand times. But you must do it as efficiently as possible." (grodnonews.by, 13 Jun 2019)

He was named among the Best Athletes of the Year for 2017 in the Brest region of Belarus. (bvn.by, 30 Dec 2017)

He has received the title of Master of Sport of International Class in Belarus. (oblsport.grodno.by, 21 Apr 2020; Athlete, 24 Feb 2020)