Aliaksandr Viktaravich Bahdanovich ( be, Аляксандр Віктаравіч Багдановіч, born 29 April 1982) is a

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ian

sprint canoeist Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race canoes or kayaks on calm water. Overview Race categories vary by the number of athletes in the boat, the length of the course, and whether the boat is a canoe or kayak. Canoe sprints are som ...

. Competing in three

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, he won a gold medal in the C-2 1000 m event at

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together with

Andrei Bahdanovich Andrei Viktaravich Bahdanovich ( be, Андрэй Віктаравіч Багдановіч, born 15 October 1987) is a Belarusian sprint canoeist. He won a gold medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics, rowing together with his ...

. They won silver in the same event in

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. At the 2004 Games, he finished sixth in the C-2 500 m event rowing with Aleksandr Kurlyandchik.Aleksandr Bogdanovich
sports-reference.com Bahdanovich also won six medals at the

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with a gold (C-4 200 m:

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), two silvers (C-2 1000 m:

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, C-4 1000 m:

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) and three bronzes (C-4 200 m:

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, C-4 1000 m:

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, 2006).

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* * 1982 births Living people Belarusian male canoeists Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists of Belarus Olympic gold medalists for Belarus Olympic medalists in canoeing Olympic silver medalists for Belarus ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics European Games medalists in canoeing European Games gold medalists for Belarus Canoeists at the 2015 European Games People from Mogilev Sportspeople from Mogilev Region {{Belarus-canoe-bio-stub