Marat Romanov

Marat Romanov
Curler
Born (1966-06-05) June 5, 1966
Chelyabinsk, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Team
Curling club Granit
Skip Andrey Smirnov
Third Konstantin Kurokhtin
Second Svetlana Pakhomova
Lead Alexander Shevchenko
Alternate Marat Romanov

Marat Marsovich Romanov (Russian: Мара́т Ма́рсович Рома́нов; born 5 June 1966) is a Russian wheelchair curler playing as alternate for the Russian wheelchair curling team. He and his team won the silver medal at the 2014 Paralympic Games and gold medals at the 2012 and 2015 World Championships.

Biography

Romanov came to curling after a car accident in 1996, after which he received a spiral fracture. He also did basketball and arm wrestling. In May 2007 he formed a curling team in Chelyabinsk, where he was a skip.[1][2]

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