Roman Zhdanov
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Roman Sergeyevich Zhdanov (Russian: Роман Сергеевич Жданов; born 30 June 1998) is a Russian para swimmer. He is a three-time Paralympic champion, five-time World champion and one-time European champion.
Career
[edit]Zhdanov started swimming at the age of 14 and broke into professional sports in 2013. The next year, he went to the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships in Eindhoven. Zhdanov won 4 bronze medals, participating in the 50m backstroke (S5 class), 200m medley (SM5 class), and two 4 x 50m freestyle and medley relay events.
At the World Games 2015 in Sochi, he returned home with 4 awards.
At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, he participated in the 50m backstroke races S4 class and 150m medley SM4 class. In the 100m and 200m freestyle S4 class, Zhdanov took two silver medals. In the 4 x 50m relay, he came third.
Zhdanov went to the Russian Swimming Cup as part of a team of swimmers with a lesions of the musculoskeletal system from Biysk. The team won 7 medals, 4 of them being won by Zhdanov.
At a world championship in London,[when?] Zhdanov won 2 gold and 2 bronze medals.[citation needed]
Zhdanov was one of the Russian Paralympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, where he won gold medals in the 50 metre breaststroke SB3, 50 metre backstroke S4, and 150 metre individual medley SM4, setting three world records.[1]
In 2021, Zhdanov competed in the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. He won the 50m breaststroke, setting a new world record of 46.49s. In the 150m, Zhdanov completed the race in 2 minutes 12.17 seconds, beating his own record set in May 2021. In the 100m freestyle race, he finished third. He received the bronze medal in the 200m freestyle in the S4 class. Zhdanov finished the competition with his third gold in the 50m backstroke.
Personal life
[edit]Zhdanov was born n June 30, 1998, in Gorno-Altaisk, the capital of the Altai Republic, to Natalya and Alexander Zhdanov. He was born with a lesion of the musculoskeletal system. He has a younger brother named Danil.[citation needed] Elena Alexandrovna Sokolova became his swimming coach when he was a teenager[citation needed]
Until the 9th grade, Zhdanov studied at secondary school No. 10 in Gorno-Altaisk. He then attended school number 18 in Biysk.
Zhdanov married his wife Victoria (born April 26, 1998) on September 3, 2020.[citation needed] Zhdanov now lives in Biysk and still trains under Elena Sokolova.
References
[edit]- ^ "Roman Zhdanov". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Paralympic swimmers for Russia
- Paralympic gold medalists for the Russian Paralympic Committee athletes
- Paralympic bronze medalists for the Russian Paralympic Committee athletes
- Paralympic gold medalists for the Neutral Paralympic Athletes team
- Paralympic silver medalists for the Neutral Paralympic Athletes team
- Paralympic medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
- Medalists at the World Para Swimming European Championships
- Russian male backstroke swimmers
- Russian male breaststroke swimmers
- Russian male freestyle swimmers
- Russian male medley swimmers
- S4-classified para swimmers
- 21st-century Russian sportsmen