Marat Romanov
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| Born |
June 5, 1966 Chelyabinsk, RSFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Curling club | Granit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skip | Andrey Smirnov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Third | Konstantin Kurokhtin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Second | Svetlana Pakhomova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lead | Alexander Shevchenko | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alternate | Marat Romanov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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]
Awards
- Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I class (17 March 2014) – for the huge contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, and for the high athletic performances at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi[3]
- Merited Master of Sports of Russia
References
External links
- Personal details at the World Curling Federation's website
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