Andrei Meshcheryakov (swimmer)

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Andrei Meshcheryakov
Medal record
Representing Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Swimming (S2)
IPC World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2010 Eindhoven 50m freestyle S3
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2010 Eindhoven 100m freestyle S3
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2010 Eindhoven 200m freestyle S3
IPC European Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2011 Berlin 50m freestyle S3
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2011 Berlin 50m backstroke S3
Wheelchair curling
World Wheelchair Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Wetzikon
Russian Wheelchair Curling Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Novosibirsk

Andrey Meshcheryakov [1] (born 20 April 1984 in Moscow) is a Russian swimmer and wheelchair curler. He has represented Russia at both the IPC World Championships and the 2012 Summer Paralympics. [2] As a curler he was a participant of the 2018 Winter Paralympic games and World Wheelchair Curling Championships of 2019, 2020; he is a 2020 World champion. [3]

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Personal history

Meshcheryakov was born in 1994. He matriculated to Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics where he studied law. He was severely injured in a car accident resulting in permanent disabilities. [2] He is married to Anastasia and as of 2014 has one child. In 2014 he became the first torch barer when the flame came to his home town of Moscow as part of the Winter Paralympics in Sochi. [4]

Swimming career

After his accident Meshcheryakov initially took up table tennis, but switched to swimming as part of his rehabilitation. [2] A water polo player before his injuries, Meshcheryakov showed promise as a parasport swimmer and was coached by Natalia Stepanova. [2] Classified as an S3 swimmer, he competed for Russia at the 2011 IPC Swimming European Championships and won silver in the 50m freestyle behind Ukraine's Dmytro Vynohradets. [5] He followed this with a bronze in the 50m backstroke at the same Championship. [6]

Two years later he again represented Russia, travelling to Montreal to compete in the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships. There he took three medals, all bronze, in the 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle and 200m freestyle. [2] In 2012 he qualified for his first Summer Paralympics, where he entered four events in the London Games. He failed to reach the final in the 100m S4 freestyle, limited by the fact that his S3 classification was not given its own 100m competition. He qualified for the finals in the 50m breaststroke SB2, 150m individual medley SM3 and the 50m backstroke S3 but he was unable to medal. [2]

Curling teams and events

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadAlternateCoachEvents
2017–18 Konstantin Kurokhtin Marat Romanov Alexander Shevchenko Daria Shchukina Andrei Meshcheriakov Anton Batugin WPG 2018 (5th)
2018–19 Andrey Smirnov Marat RomanovAlexander ShevchenkoDaria ShchukinaAndrei MeshcheriakovAnton Batugin,
Margarita Nesterova
WWhCC 2019 (7th)
2019–20Andrei Meshcheryakov Alexander Shevchenko Maksim VolkovAleksandra Chechyotkina RWhCC 2020 Gold medal icon.svg
Konstantin KurokhtinAndrei Meshcheriakov Vitaly Danilov Daria Shchukina Anna Karpushina Anton Batugin,
Sergey Shamov
WWhCC 2020 Gold medal icon.svg

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References

  1. Other writings: Andrei Meshcheryakov, Andrei Meshcheriakov.
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