Viktor Konoplyov
![]() Viktor Polevoy at the 1958 European Championships | ||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1938-06-01) 1 June 1938 (age 86) Moscow, Soviet Union[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Dynamo Moscow | |||||||||||||||||
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Viktor Konoplyov (Polevoy) (Russian: Виктор Коноплёв (Полевой); born 1 June 1938)[1][2] is a retired Soviet freestyle swimmer who won a gold and a silver medal in the 4×100 m medley relay at the European championships of 1958 and 1962.[3] Between 1958 and 1962 he set four European records in the 4×100 m medley and freestyle relays. He won the national titles in the 100 m freestyle (1961–1963) and 4×100 m medley (1960).[1]
He graduated from the State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education in Moscow, and after retirement worked as a national swimming coach and associated professor at various universities. He was one of the first Soviet swimmers to develop an optimal turning technique in freestyle.[4] He holds a PhD in pedagogy and was awarded the Medal "Veteran of Labour".[1][2]
References
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- 1958:
Soviet Union (Barbier, Minashkin, Chenenkov, Polevoy)
- 1962:
East Germany (Dietze, Henninger, Gregor, Wiegand)
- 1966:
Soviet Union (Mazanov, Prokopenko, Kuzmin, Ilyichov)
- 1970:
East Germany (Matthes, Katzur, Poser, Unger)
- 1974:
West Germany (Steinbach, Kusch, Meeuw, Nocke)
- 1977:
West Germany (Steinbach, Mörken, Kraus, Nocke)
- 1981:
Soviet Union (Kuznetsov, Kis, Markovsky, Krasyuk)
- 1983:
Soviet Union (Shemetov, Žulpa, Markovsky, Smiryagin)
- 1985:
West Germany (Lebherz, Beab, Gross, Schowtka)
- 1987:
Soviet Union (Polyansky, Volkov, Petrov, Prigoda)
- 1989:
Soviet Union (Zabolotnov, Volkov, Yaroshchuk, Bashkatov)
- 1991:
Soviet Union (Selkov, Volkov, Kulikov, Popov)
- 1993:
Russia (Selkov, Kirinchuk, Pankratov, Popov)
- 1995:
Russia (Selkov, Korneyev, Pankratov, Popov)
- 1997:
Russia (Selkov, Korneyev, Kulikov, Popov)
- 1999:
Netherlands (Zwering, Wouda, Aartsen, Van den Hoogenband)
- 2000:
Russia (Aminov, Komornikov, Chernyshov, Popov)
- 2002:
Russia (Alechin, Sloudnov, Marchenko, Popov)
- 2004:
Ukraine (Nikolaychuk, Lisohor, Serdinov, Yegoshin)
- 2006:
Russia (Vyatchanin, Sloudnov, Skvortsov, Kapralov)
- 2008:
Russia (Vyatchanin, Falko, Korotyshkin, Grechin)
- 2010:
France (Lacourt, Duboscq, Bousquet, Gilot)
- 2012:
Italy (Di Tora, Scozzoli, Rivolta, Magnini)
- 2014:
Great Britain (Walker-Hebborn, Peaty, Barrett, Proud)
- 2016:
Great Britain (Walker-Hebborn, Peaty, Guy, Scott)
- 2018:
Great Britain (Pyle, Peaty, Guy, Scott)
- 2020:
Great Britain (Greenbank, Peaty, Guy, Scott)
- 2022:
Italy (Ceccon, Martinenghi, Rivolta, Miressi)
- 2024:
Austria (Reitshammer, Bayer, Bucher, Gigler)
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