Maksim Sergeyevich Khramtsov ( rus, Максим Сергеевич Храмцов, , mɐˈksʲim xrɐmˈtsof; born 12 January 1998), sometimes spelled as ''Khramtcov'', is a male

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Taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...

practitioner who won gold medals at the

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and the

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. Khramtsov initially trained in karate, but in 2011 changed to taekwondo because he wanted to compete at the Olympics. Khramtsov was among the two Russian athletes barred from entering the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships due to his explicit support for the

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. In October 2022, nine months after the beginning of the

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, Khramtsov shot and published a video in which he congratulated Putin on his birthday and said he is proud to support him. His post on VK also included pro-war hashtags ''#ZaПрезидента, #ZaМир, #ZaРоссию''. Khramtsov initially qualified for the

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as an Individual Neutral Athlete (AIN), but the

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did not declare him neutral and he was not invited to the Games as a result. Putin and Maksim Khramtsov 2021

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* Living people 1998 births Russian male taekwondo practitioners European Taekwondo Championships medalists World Taekwondo Championships medalists Taekwondo practitioners at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Russian Olympic Committee athletes Olympic medalists in taekwondo Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Russia 21st-century Russian sportsmen Military World Games gold medalists for Russia Military World Games medalists in taekwondo {{Russia-taekwondo-bio-stub