Russian Paralympic athlete

Para-athleticsParalympic Games 2012 London 100m - T36 2012 London 400m - T36 2012 London 800m - T36 2020 Tokyo 400m - T36IPC World Championships2013 Lyon100m - T362013 Lyon200m - T362013 Lyon400m - T362013 Lyon4x100m - T35-382015 Doha200m - T362015 Doha400m - T362019 Dubai400m - T36IPC European Championships2012 Stadskanaal100m - T362012 Stadskanaal400m - T362012 Stadskanaal800m - T362014 Swansea100m - T362014 Swansea200m - T362014 Swansea400m - T362016 Grosseto400m - T362016 Grosseto800m - T362021 Bydgoszcz100m - T362021 Bydgoszcz400m - T36

Evgeny Shvetsov (born 28 February 1988) is a Paralympian track and field athlete from Russia competing mainly in category T36 sprint and middle-distance events. A triple gold medal winner at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Shvetcov set three world records in his cl* between 2012 and 2013.

Contents

• 1 Career history
  • 1.1 2012 London
  • 1.2 2013 to 2016
• 2 Notes
• 3 External links

Career history

2012 London

Shvetcov came to world attention as an athlete at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London where he entered the 100m and 400m sprints and the 800m middle-distance race. In the 100m he qualified through his heat in first position in a time of 12.11s, a new Paralympic record. In the final he shave three thousands of that record, taking the Paralympic *le and pushing Graeme Ballard (Great Britain) and Roman Pavlyk (Ukraine) into silver and bronze positions. There were no qualifier rounds for the 400m T36 event and Shvetcov's results leading into the Games were strong enough to see him in the final. The podium finish of the 400m saw another Britain take silver, Paul Blake and Pavlyk again take bronze, while Shetcov's final time of 53.31s set a new world record giving him the gold medal. For Shetcov's third event of the Paralympic Games, the 800m, he arrived as one of the *le favourites, having set a new world record a few months earlier when he ran 2:05.05 at the 2012 European Championships in Stadskanaal. In the Paralympic final he maintained his form to finish just outside his record with a time of 3:05:34 pushing fellow Russian Artem Arefyev into second place.

2013 to 2016

The next year Shvetcov entered the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon as one of the favourites. He failed to disappoint picking up four gold medals, this time all in the sprint events. In contrast to the Paralympics he added the 200m and 4 × 100 m relay to his roster, and showed his cl* by setting a new world record in the heats of the T36 100m, recording a time of 11.92s, the first time a T36 athlete has run under 12 seconds. He then went on to beat his own world record the next day when he took gold in the final with a time of 11.90 seconds.

Shvetcov added two more international gold medals when he travelled to Swansea in Wales to compete in the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships. In poor weather conditions he added retained his 100m *le from Stadskanaal and added the 200m *le. The following year he suffered a rare defeat when he was beaten by Ballard in the 100m at the Berlin Grand Prix. Shvetcov was keen to regain his World Championship *les, and his new training regime focused on the sprint events, including his favourite distance, the 400m.

Notes

External links

• Evgenii Shvetsov at the International Paralympic Committee