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Mar 29, 1958 Moscow, Russia Died on 19 Apr 2019 (aged 61)
Soviet rower
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About Yuriy Pimenov
- Yuriy Igorevich Pimenov (Russian: ???? ????????? ???????; 29 March 1958 – 19 April 2019) was a Russian rower who mostly competed in the coxless pairs, rowing with his twin brother Nikolay.
- Between 1978 and 1993 the brothers won a silver medal at the 1980 Olympics, as well as three gold, three silver and one bronze medal at the world championships.
- They finished in 6th and 15th place at the 1988 and 1992 Games, respectively, missing the 1984 Olympics due to their boycott by the Soviet Union.
- They went to the Friendship Games instead, dubbed the alternative Olympics, where they won gold. Pimenov was an international rowing referee and the chief referee of the Russian Rowing Federation.
- In 1994 he became the third person to receive the Thomas Keller Medal, the highest honor in rowing.
