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| Full name | Oleg Aleksandrovich Zhestkov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 January 1987 Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 98 kg (216 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Canoe sprint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dynamo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Alexander Shishkin V.S. Mikhailovsky Alexander Zhdanov (national) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Oleg Aleksandrovich Zhestkov (Russian: Олег Александрвоич Жестков; born 20 January 1987) is a Russian sprint canoeist who competes in the four-man K-4 1000 m event. He won the world title in 2013, placing third in 2011, and had a silver medal at the 2016 European Championships. His teams finished seventh at the 2012 and ninth at the 2016 Olympics.
In March 2019 Zhestkov tested positive for the banned substance EPO, receiving a four-year ban.
Zhestkov was born in Omsk, but later moved to Krasnodar. He took up kayaking following his two brothers, his mother and his cousin.
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oleg Zhestkov.
- ^ a b c ЖЕСТКОВ Олег Александрович. komanda2016.ru
- ^ Oleg Zhestkov Archived 26 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
- ^ Oleg Zhestkov. london2012.com
- ^ a b c Oleg Zhestkov. nbcolympics.com
- ^ "Russian canoeist banned for using EPO". ICF - Planet Canoe. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
