Arkady Vyatchanin
Personal information
Full nameArkady Arkadyevich Vyatchanin
Nationality Russia
 Serbia
 United States
Born (1984-04-04) 4 April 1984
Vorkuta, Russian SFSR,
Soviet Union[1]
Height2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)[1]
Weight91 kg (201 lb)[1]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBackstroke
ClubTaganrog Army Club[1]
Federal Protective Service[2]
New York Athletic Club[1]
CoachLyudmila Shalyapina (aunt)
Arkady Vyatchanin (father)
Irina Vyatchanina (mother)
Gregg Troy[2]
Medal record
Representing  Russia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing 100 m backstroke
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing 200 m backstroke
World Championships (LC)
Silver medal – second place 2003 Barcelona 100 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 2003 Barcelona 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2005 Montreal 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Melbourne 4×100 m medley
World Championships (SC)
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Indianapolis 200 m backstroke
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Indianapolis 4×100 m medley
European Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2006 Budapest 100 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2006 Budapest 200 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2006 Budapest 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2008 Eindhoven 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2008 Eindhoven 200 m backstroke
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Eindhoven 100 m backstroke
European Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2009 Istanbul 100 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2006 Helsinki 100 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2006 Helsinki 200 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 2005 Trieste 50 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 2005 Trieste 100 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 2005 Trieste 200 m backstroke

Arkady Arkadyevich Vyatchanin (Russian: Аркадий Аркадьевич Вятча́нин, Serbian Cyrillic: Аркадиј Аркадјевич Вјатчањин; born 4 April 1984) is a retired Russian, Serbian and American backstroke swimmer. He was born in Vorkuta, and in 1999 moved to Taganrog, Russia, where he graduated from the South Federal University. He was a member of the Russian National Team in 2000–2015; moved to Serbia in 2015[3] and to the United States in 2017, and retired in June 2018.[4]

Family

Vyatchanin came from a swimming family and was initially trained by his aunt, father and mother, who were all retired competitive swimmers and professional swimming coaches. His father Arkady Sr. (1946–2014) held nine Soviet swimming titles and was a member of the Soviet team from 1965 to 1971. His mother Irina and elder sister Alla competed at the national level. Vyatchanin is married to Evgeniya.[2]

Change of nationality

In 2013 Vyatchanin announced an intention to leave the Russian team and compete for another country saying he gave all he could to team Russia.[5] In 2015 he obtained Serbian citizenship[6] (name in Serbian: Arkadij Vjatčanjin), but could not complete internationally because of administrative errors in his international transfer. Hence he missed the 2016 Summer Olympics. In 2017 Vyatchanin obtained American citizenship.[7] He retired in June 2018 aiming to become a swimming coach.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Arkady Vyachanin. sports-reference.com
  2. 1 2 3 Аркадий Вятчанин. russwimming.ru
  3. ↑ Vjačanin oborio dva srpska rekorda Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  4. 1 2 Призер Олимпийских игр пловец Вятчанин объявил о завершении карьеры. TASS (2 June 2018).
  5. ↑ Do Svidaniya, Russia! Arkady Vyatchanin Switching Sport Nationalities. Swimming World Magazine (22 April 2013).
  6. ↑ Светски рекордер Аркадиј Вјачанин плива за Србију. serbia-swim.org.rs (14 January 2015)
  7. ↑ Пловец Вятчанин получил гражданство США Archived 7 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine. sport.mail.ru (7 August 2017)


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