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Aleksey Kamkin

Aleksey Kamkin
RIAN archive 492350 Alexei Kamkin, Valery Dolinin, Aleksandr Kulagin, Vitaly Eliseyev crop.jpg
Kamkin, Dolinin, Kulagin and Eliseyev at the 1980 Olympics
Personal information
Born 15 October 1952 (1952-10-15) (age 64)
Kaliningrad, Russia
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport Rowing
Club VS Leningrad

Aleksey Dmitrievich Kamkin (Russian: Алексей Дмитриевич Камкин, born 15 October 1952) is a retired Russian rower who had his best achievements in the coxless fours, together with Valeriy Dolinin, Aleksandr Kulagin and Vitaly Eliseyev. In this event they won a world title in 1981 and silver medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics and 1982 World Rowing Championships.

After retiring from competition Kamkin worked as a rowing coach at the national level. Between 1984 and 1991 he coached the Soviet Army team and prepared two national champions.



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