Vadzim Makhneu

Vadzim Henadzevich Makhneu (Belarusian: Вадзім Генадзевіч Махнеў) or Vadim Makhnev Russian: Вадим Махнев; born 21 December 1979) is a Belarusian flatwater canoeist who has competed since 2000. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-2 200m: 2012) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2004, 2008).

Vadzim Makhneu
Beijing K-4 1000 m team on a 2010 Belarusian stamp: Abalmasau, Piatrushenka, Litvinchuk and Makhneu (right)
Personal information
Born21 December 1979 (1979-12-21) (age 40)
Minsk, Belarus
Height1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight100 kg (220 lb)
Sport
SportCanoe sprint
ClubDynamo Minsk
Medal record
Representing  Belarus
Olympic Games
2008 BeijingK-4 1000 m
2012 LondonK-2 200 m
2004 AthensK-2 500 m
2008 BeijingK-2 500 m
World Championships
2005 ZagrebK-4 500 m
2007 DuisburgK-2 200 m
2009 DartmouthK-2 200 m
2009 DartmouthK-2 500 m
2009 DartmouthK-4 200 m
2009 DartmouthK-4 1000 m
2010 PoznańK-2 500 m
2002 SevilleK-4 500 m
2003 GainesvilleK-2 500 m
2007 DuisburgK-2 500 m
2010 PoznańK-4 1000 m
2013 DuisburgK–2 500 m
2005 ZagrebK-4 200 m
2006 SzegedK-4 1000 m
2011 SzegedK-2 200 m
2014 MoscowK-2 500 m
European Championships
2011 BelgradeK-2 500 m
2011 BelgradeK-2 200 m
2012 ZagrebK-2 500 m
2014 BrandenburgK-2 500 m

Career

Makhneu never represented Belarus as a junior but won four European championship gold medals for his country at under-23 level as a member of the K-4 crew.

In 2001 he was promoted to the senior K-4 boat and won his first senior medals at the European championships in Milan (K-4 500 m bronze and K-4 1000 m bronze). A year later the same crew went to the world championships in Seville and took the K-4 500 m silver medal.

In 2003, Makhneu formed a K-2 partnership with Raman Piatrushenka, moving to Mozyr to work under Piatrushenka's coach Vladimir Shantarovich. In their first season together the pair won the 500 m silver medal at the world championships in Gainesville, USA.

Both men were still competing in the K-4 as well and had won another 500 m European medal, this time silver, in 2004.

This decision was amply rewarded in 2005 when the Belarus K-4 500 m crew of Piatrushenka/Abalmasau/Turchyn/Makhneu were crowned first European and then world champions.

He would win nine more medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a bronze in 2006 (K-4 1000 m), two more in 2007 (K-2 200 m: gold, K-2 500 m: silver), and four golds in 2009 (K-2 200 m, K-2 500 m, K-4 200 m, K-4 1000 m), and in 2010, a gold (K-2 500 m) and a silver (K-4 1000 m).

In 2005 Makhneu secretly married Alina, a receptionist of the hotel he had lived in while training in Mozyr.

His father, Gennady, finished seventh for the Soviet Union in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

  • Canoe09.ca profile
  • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05). Additional archives: Wayback Machine.
  • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Vadim Makhnyov". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
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