Serhiy Nahorniy (born December 8, 1956) is a

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sprint canoeist Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race in specially designed sprint canoes or sprint kayaks on calm water over a short distance. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing. The term is still in use today ...

who competed from the late 1970s and the early 1980s. Competing in two

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...

, he won two medals at

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1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...

with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Nahorny also won two bronze medals at the

ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoe racing, one of two top-tier Summer Olympic sport events organized by the International Canoe Federation (the other being the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships). They ...

, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (

1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...

) and K-4 1000 m (

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

) events.

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(As Sergey Nagorny) 1956 births Canoeists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Living people Soviet 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 Ukrainian male canoeists ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Dynamo Sports Club sportspeople Sportspeople from Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub