Andrey Vdovin

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Andrey Vdovin ({{langx|ru|Андрей Вдовин}}, also transliterated Andrei Vdovin, born 26 February 1994) is a Russian parasport athlete competing mainly in category T37 sprint and middle-distance events. A triple gold medal winner at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, Vdovin also set three world records in his class between 2013 and 2014.

Personal history

Vdovin was born in Dzerzhinsk, Russia in 1994.{{cite web |url=http://www.paralympic.org/static/info/swansea-2014/ENG/ZB/ZBB101A_EC2014AT@@@@@@@ENG_number=19512.htm|title=Vdovin, Andrey: Biography overview|accessdate=3 October 2015|work=paralympic.org}} He has cerebral palsy.{{cite web|url=http://ipc.infostradasports.com/asp/lib/theasp.asp?pageid=8937&sportid=513&personid=1187789&refreshauto=1|title=Vdovin, Andrey|accessdate=3 October 2015|work=IPC|archive-date=4 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004161941/http://ipc.infostradasports.com/asp/lib/theasp.asp?pageid=8937&sportid=513&personid=1187789&refreshauto=1|url-status=dead}} After leaving secondary education he enrolled at the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University to study Information Technology.

Athletics career

Vdovin took up athletics at the age of 10 and later joined the Specialised Children's Youth Sport School of Olympic Reserve in Zarya.{{cite web |url=http://www.paralympic.org/andrey-vdovin|title=Andrey Vdovin|accessdate=3 October 2015|work=paralympic.org}} He was classified as a T37 athlete, due to limited motor function resulting from his cerebral palsy. In 2013 he was selected to represent Russia at the IPC World Championships in Lyon. There he entered three events, the 100m, 200m and the 4 × 100 m - T35-38. He won gold in all three and set a world record in both the 100m (11.48) and the 200m (22.77). His winning time in the 200m saw him become the first man to run under 23 seconds in his classification.{{cite web|url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/new-star-sophie-hahn-shines-with-world-record|title=New star Sophie Hahn shines with World record at IPC Athletics World Championships |date=25 July 2015|work=iaaf.org|accessdate=3 October 2015}} In the T35-38 100m relay, he was joined by Gocha Khugaev, Roman Kapranov and Evgenii Shvetcov, beating South Africa (silver) and Ukraine (bronze) in the final.

The following year he represented Russia at Nottwil in Switzerland in an open meet. There he entered the 400m middle-distance event where his time of 51.67 not only gave him the gold medal, but also set a new world record. Three months later he was back in the Russian team at the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships in Swansea. He entered the 100m and 200m sprint events along with and the 400m. Vdovin won both the sprint events and broke his own world record in the 400m with a time of 50.91 seconds.

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External links

{{IPC athlete|id=andrei-vdovin|old_id=1187789|name=Andrei Vdovin}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032650/http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/search.php?sport=all&games=all&medal=all&npc=all&gender=all&name=Vdovin&fname=Andrey archive])

Category:1994 births

Category:Living people

Category:World record holders in para-athletics

Category:Russian male sprinters

Category:Russian male middle-distance runners

Category:Track and field athletes with cerebral palsy

Category:World Para Athletics Championships winners

Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Paralympics

Category:Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Category:Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics

Category:Paralympic gold medalists for the Russian Paralympic Committee athletes