Aleksandr Popov (canoeist)

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Aleksandr Popov, (born April 26, 1975) is an Uzbekistani sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1990s. Competing for Yugoslavia, he was eliminated in the repechages of the K-1 500 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.


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