KUZAKHMETOV Artem

World Championships

Year	Location	K2 500m	K4 500m
2019	Szeged, HUN	-	4
2018	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	1	-

European Games

Year	Location	K4 500m
2019	Minsk, BLR	1

European Championships

Year	Location	K2 500m	K4 500m
2021	Poznan, POL	5	-
2017	Plovdiv, BUL	-	12

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

Year	K4 500m
2019	1 x 3rd
2017	1 x 14th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
3	2019	Kayak Four 500m	World Cup	Duisburg, GER	1:19.493
14	2017	Kayak Four 500m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	1:21.931

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

Reading books, football, table tennis. (Athlete, 27 Jan 2020)

Russian

Izhora Sports School of Olympic Reserve [RUS] / Tver Region School of Supreme Sports Skill [RUS]

Leonid Medvedev [personal], RUS; Marina Lobanova [personal], RUS

He began paddling at age 10 in Vyshny Volochyok, Russian Federation. (Athlete, 27 Jan 2020)

He originally practised cross-country skiing before switching to paddling as he was more successful at it. (Athlete, 27 Jan 2020)

To win a medal at the Olympic Games. (Athlete, 27 Jan 2020)

Winning gold in K2 500m at the 2018 World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal, and gold in K4 500m at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus. (Athlete, 27 Jan 2020)

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, French sprint paddler Maxime Beaumont. (Athlete, 27 Jan 2020)

His father, his coaches, and his partner. (Athlete, 27 Jan 2020)

He was named the 2019 Best Sportsman of the Year in the Tver region of the Russian Federation. (tp.tver.ru, 28 Apr 2020)

In December 2019 he received the title of Honoured Master of Sport in the Russian Federation. (minsport.gov.ru, 18 Dec 2019)