Further Personal Information |
Residence |
Seltso, RUS |
Sport Specific Information |
Club / Team |
Leningrad Regional Olympic Training Centre of Water Sports: Russia |
Further Personal Information |
Higher education |
Economics, Finance - Grand Canyon University: Phoenix, AZ, USA |
General Interest |
Hobbies |
Going to the cinema, reading books, finance, psychology, astrophysics. (Athlete, 07 Dec 2021) |
Famous relatives |
His mother Tamara Nikolaeva has served as his coach. (Athlete, 07 Dec 2021; lenswimming.ru, 07 Jun 2021) |
Sport Specific Information |
Why this sport? |
His mother has worked as a swimming coach and introduced him to the sport. |
General Interest |
Ambitions |
To compete at the world championships and European championships. (Athlete, 07 Dec 2021) |
Awards and honours |
While representing Grand Canyon University in the United States of America, he was named the Western Athletic Conference Men's Swimmer of the Year on three occasions, and won the 2019 Joe Kearney Award as the conference's top male student-athlete. (gculopes.com, 14 Sep 2020)
In 2017 he received the title of Master of Sport of International Class in the Russian Federation. (minsport.gov.ru, 27 Dec 2017) |
Sport Specific Information |
Name of coach |
Tamara Nikolaeva [mother, personal], RUS |
When and where did you begin this sport? |
He began swimming at age six in Seltso, Russian Federation. |
Further Personal Information |
Languages |
English, Russian |
General Interest |
Other information |
FURTHER EDUCATION
In 2019 he completed a master of business administration [MBA] at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, AZ, United States of America. (gculopes.com, 14 Sep 2020; LinkedIn profile, 01 Jan 2020) |
