Nikolay Lipkin (, born 20 May 1985 in

Kasimov Kasimov (; ;, Ханкирмән Latinized : Kasıym, Hankirmən,Ханкирмән, Хан-Кермень, means " Khan's fortress" historically Gorodets Meshchyorsky, Novy Nizovoy) is a town in Ryazan Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of ...

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) is a Russian

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who has competed since 2003. He received a four-year ban for

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doping, and was stripped of a title he won in 2014 in Moscow.The News and Observer
In 2003 he was a member of the Russia

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C-4 500m crew that won the junior world championships in Komatsu, Japan. He also claimed two individual (C-1) medals – silver over 500m and bronze in the 1000 m. Lipkin's potential was shown at the European under-23 Championships in

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, where he won the C-1 500 m bronze medal despite the fact that many of his rivals were three years older. Since then he has continued his rapid progress. In 2005 he became the first of the junior canoe champions from Komatsu to win a senior world championship title. At the age of just twenty, he partnered Yevgeny Ignatov to victory in the C-2 200 m final at the

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, Croatia. They edged out

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and Tomasz Wylenzek by just 0.024 secs, thereby preventing a clean sweep by the German duo. After these successes Lipkin began the transition to the longer distance C-1 500m in preparation for the

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, where there will be no 200 m races. He didn't appear at the 2006 European Senior Championships; instead he was entered for the under-23 championships in Schinias, Greece, where he won two titles, the C-1 500m and also the C-2 500m (with Ilya Shtokalov). At the senior world championships in

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. Hungary. however he returned to the 200 m distance and became individual C-1 champion ahead of Ukraine's Valentin Demyanenko. Lipkin won a silver in the C-4 200 m event at the 2007 championships in

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. He also won five medals at the 2009 championships in Dartmouth (Gold: C-1 , Silver: C-1 200 m, C-1 500 m, C-4 200 m; Bronze: C-2 1000 m), the most among any Canadian canoeist at the championships. Lipkin added gold again in

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, but only in the C-1 . Lipkin now lives in

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, (Moscow region) and is a member of the Dinamo Moscow club. He is 190 cm tall and weighs 91 kg.

References

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