Viktor Denisov (, born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian

canoe sprint 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 ...

er who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represe ...

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, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve 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 ...

with seven golds (K-4 200 m:

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

, K-4 500 m:

1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

, 1994,

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4 200 m: 1995, K-4 500 m:

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...

), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1987, 1993). He trained at the

Armed Forces sports society The Sports Clubs of the Armed Forces, Physical Culture and Sports Association of the Soviet Armed Forces ( ''sportivnye kluby Armiy, SKA''; , ''Fizkulturno-sportivnoe obyedinenie Vooruzhonnykh Sil SSSR''), also called the Sports Clubs of the Sovie ...

in Kalinin.

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* * 1966 births Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists for the Soviet Union Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Russian male canoeists Soviet male canoeists Olympic medalists in canoeing Sportspeople from Tver ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub