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Sergei Postrekhin (born November 1, 1957, in
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1957 births Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Living people Soviet male canoeists Ukrainian male canoeists Olympic canoeists for the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in canoeing ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Sportspeople from Kherson Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-canoe-bio-stub
Sergei Postrekhin (born November 1, 1957, in Kherson
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, Ukrainian SSR
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) is a Soviet
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-born Ukrainian sprint canoer
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who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. At the 1980 Summer Olympics
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in Moscow
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, he won a gold in the C-1 500 m event and a silver in the C-1 1000 m event.
Postrekhin also won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
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with a gold (C-1 500 m: 1979
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) and two bronzes (C-1 500 m: 1982
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, C-2 1000 m: 1978
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References
* *Sports-reference.com profile
1957 births Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Living people Soviet male canoeists Ukrainian male canoeists Olympic canoeists for the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in canoeing ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Sportspeople from Kherson Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-canoe-bio-stub