Nikolay Lipkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Nikolay Lipkin

Russian sprint canoer

Date of Birth: 20-May-1985

Place of Birth: Kasimov, Ryazan Oblast, Russia

Profession: canoeist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Nikolay Lipkin

  • Nikolay Lipkin (Russian: ??????? ??????, born 20 May 1985 in Kasimov, Ryazan Oblast) is a Russian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2003. In 2003 he was a member of the Russia Canadian canoe C-4 500m crew that won the junior world championships in Komatsu, Japan.
  • He also claimed two individual (C-1) medals – silver over 500m and bronze in the 1000 m.
  • Lipkin's potential was shown at the European under-23 Championships in Poznan, where he won the C-1 500 m bronze medal despite the fact that many of his rivals were three years older. Since then he has continued his rapid progress.
  • In 2005 he became the first of the junior canoe champions from Komatsu to win a senior world championship title.
  • At the age of just twenty, he partnered Yevgeny Ignatov to victory in the C-2 200 m final at the world championship in Zagreb, Croatia.
  • They edged out Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek by just 0.024 secs, thereby preventing a clean sweep by the German duo. After these successes Lipkin began the transition to the longer distance C-1 500m in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics, where there will be no 200 m races.
  • He didn't appear at the 2006 European Senior Championships; instead he was entered for the under-23 championships in Schinias, Greece, where he won two titles, the C-1 500m and also the C-2 500m (with Ilya Shtokalov).
  • At the senior world championships in Szeged.
  • Hungary.
  • however he returned to the 200 m distance and became individual C-1 champion ahead of Ukraine's Valentin Demyanenko.
  • Lipkin won a silver in the C-4 200 m event at the 2007 championships in Duisburg.
  • He also won five medals at the 2009 championships in Dartmouth (Gold: C-1 4 x 200 m, Silver: C-1 200 m, C-1 500 m, C-4 200 m; Bronze: C-2 1000 m), the most among any Canadian canoeist at the championships.
  • Lipkin added gold again in 2010, but only in the C-1 4 x 200 m. Lipkin now lives in Bronnitsy, (Moscow region) and is a member of the Dinamo Moscow club.
  • He is 190 cm tall and weighs 91 kg.

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