KHUDYAKOV Vitaliy

Marathon Swimming

Date of Birth: 7 Aug 1994

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Place of birth: BISHKEK

Birth Country:

Kyrgyzstan

Place of residence : AKTOBE

Residence Country:

Kazakhstan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Marathon Swimming	Men's 10km	21

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Odaiba Marine Park	Men's 10km	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

MARATHON SWIMMING

Olympic Games

Year	Location	10km
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	DSQ

World Championships

Year	Location	5km	10km	25km	5km - TTT X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	31	-	16	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	9	15	7	-
2015	Kazan, RUS	-	32	13	20
2013	Barcelona, ESP	37	49	24	19

Asian Championships

Year	Location	5km	10km
2019	Kuwait City, KUW	1	1
2018	Chonburi, THA	3	3
2017	Putrajaya, MAS	3	1

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

Year	10km
2021	1 x 37th
2020	1 x 27th
2019	1 x 12th, 1 x 45th
2018	1 x 9th, 1 x 16th, 1 x 17th
2017	1 x 7th, 1 x 23rd, 1 x 33rd

World Series - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
7	2017	10km	Viedma, ARG
9	2018	10km	Lac-Megantic, QC, CAN
12	2019	10km	Nantou, TPE
16	2018	10km	Beau Vallon, SEY
17	2018	10km	Qiandaohu, CHN
22	2018	10km	Setubal, POR
23	2017	10km	Qiandaohu, CHN
26	2018	10km	Doha, QAT
27	2020	10km	Doha, QAT
27	2018	10km	Abu Dhabi, UAE

Legend
X - Mixed, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, TR - Team Relay, TTT - Team Time Trial

SWIMMING

World Championships

Year	Location	400Free	800Free	1500Free	400IndMed
2009	Rome, ITA	H (4:17.26)	H (8:54.03)	H (16:50.18)	H (4:52.96)

Asian Championships

Year	Location	200Free	400Free	1500Free
2016	Tokyo, JPN	H (1:54.99)	8th (4:03.52)	11th (16:13.08)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Reading books, playing online games. (Athlete, 18 Jan 2020)

Occupation:

Sport Studies - Kazakh Academy of Sport and Tourism, Almaty, KAZ

Languages spoken:

English, Russian

Regional School of Supreme Sports Skill [Taldykorgan, KAZ]

Evgeny Khudyakov [father], KAZ

He began training at age seven in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and took up open water swimming in 2012. (Athlete, 08 Jul 2015, 18 Jan 2020)

He decided to switch to open water swimming to compete at the 2012 National Championships of Kazakhstan, which offered qualification to the world junior championships. (Athlete, 18 Jan 2020)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (insidethegames.biz, 08 Aug 2020)

Soviet swimmer Vladimir Salnikov. (Athlete, 08 Jul 2015)

His father. (Athlete, 08 Jul 2015)

Philosophy:

"If you have at least one more attempt, you have not lost yet." (Athlete, 27 Jan 2016)

He has received the title of Master of Sport of International Class in Kazakhstan. (kazsports.kz, 24 Dec 2018)

General Interest

General
COUNTDOWN SWIM
In August 2020 he completed a 56-kilometre swim in the Issyk-Kul lake in Kyrgyzstan to coincide with the year countdown to the men's 10km race at the rescheduled 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. His swim, which overtook the previous record distance on the lake by 20km, was also designed to show support for health workers helping people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. "I'm very happy that my efforts paid off and I achieved this. With this achievement, I would like to support all those who remain on the front lines of the fight against coronavirus. On behalf of myself and the entire team, we would like to thank all people who are working to save lives and keep communities safe during this pandemic. We sincerely hope that in a year from now at the Olympic Games we will again be able to surprise our fans." (insidethegames.biz, 08 Aug 2020)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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