Maksim Sheremetyev

Maksim Sheremetyev
Personal information
Full name Maksim Sergeyevich Sheremetyev
Nationality  Russia
Born (1986-12-22) 22 December 1986
Saint Petersburg, Russian SFSR
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es) Dinghy
Club CSKA Moscow[1]
Coach Sergey Modestovich Egorov[1]

Maksim Sergeyevich Sheremetyev (Russian: Максим Сергéевич Шереметьев; born December 22, 1986 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (470).[1][2] He represented Russia, along with his older brother Mikhail Sheremetyev, in two editions of the Olympic Games (2008 and 2012), and has also been training for CSKA Moscow (Russian Army Sports Club) throughout most of his sporting career under personal coach Sergey Modestovich Egorov.[1] As of September 2013, Sheremetyev is ranked no. 32 in the world for two-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation.

Sheremetyev and his brother Mikhail made their official debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where they finished twentieth in the men's 470 class with a net score of 157, edging out Belarusian duo Siarhei Dziasiukevich and Pavel Lahunou by a narrow, two-point gap from the final standings.[3]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Sheremetyev competed for the second time as a crew member in the men's 470 class by finishing fifteenth and receiving a berth from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.[4][5] Teaming again with his brother and skipper Mikhail in the opening series, the Russian duo mounted two top 10 finishes on the fifth and seventh leg respectively to produce a remarkable grade of 130, but came up short for the medal race with a seventeenth place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Maksim Sheremetyev". London 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  2. "Maksim Sheremetyev". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  3. "Men's 470 Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  4. "Olympic Qualification Secured on Day 3 at 470 Worlds". 470 World Championships. 15 May 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  5. Яхтсмены Шереметьевы на Олимпиаде-2012 рассчитывают попасть в десятку [Sailors Sheremetyevs are satisfied to get into the top ten at the 2012 Olympics] (in Russian). Baltic Info (Russia). 26 May 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  6. "Men's 470". London 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.

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