Nikolay Pimenov
Nikolai Pimenov Igorewitsch (Russian Николай Игорьевич Пименов, scientific transliteration Nikolai Pimenov Igor'evič; born March 29, 1958) is a former rower from St. Petersburg, who competed for the Soviet Union.
Together with his twin brother Yuri Pimenov won Nikolai Pimenov his first World Championship medal in 1979 when the two got another pair of twins, namely Bernd and Jörg Landvoigt from the GDR, was defeated in the coxless pairs and the silver medal. The same inlet there was at the Olympic rowing competitions in 1980, the country Voigt won gold, the silver Pimenows.
1981 won the Pimenows then her first world title in two without. In 1983 came the Pimenows in coxless four and was defeated in the World Cup final of the team from the Federal Republic of Germany in a hard-fought race. Having missed the 1984 Olympics because of the Olympic boycott, the Pimenows came at the World Championships in 1985 again in the coxless pairs and won gold with less than a second ahead of the British pursuers. Nikolai Pimenov had been doing so spent that he missed the ceremony because he was still under medical treatment. 1986 could both defend the title in 1987, they received the bronze medal. For the Olympic Games 1988, the brothers exchanged back into the coxless four. In the flow and in the semi-finals the rowers from the Soviet Union were subject to each boat from East Germany, who won the gold medal in the final. The Soviet foursome arrived five minutes after the winning boat in the target after a sliding seat was cracked in the final.
1990 Pimenows won again World Championship silver in two without; Although they could beat the British two with Steven Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent, but subject to Thomas Young and Uwe Kellner from the GDR. In 1992 she participated again in the Olympic games, but reached only the C- final and were ranked number 15 His last great race was won by Nikolai Pimenov 1995 as a member of the Russian rowing eight, when he won on the Rotsee in Lucerne.
In 1996 Nikolai Pimenov the Thomas Keller Medal by the International Rowing Federation FISA. In addition to his rowing career painted Nikolai Pimenov, he was awarded the Olympic Culture Award in 1992.