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Born | 2 November 1938 | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 91 kg (201 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Spouse | Tatyana Markvo | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
Club | Spartak Moscow | ||||||||||||||
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Leonid Maksimovich Rakovshchik (Russian : Леонид Максимович Раковщик; born 2 November 1938) is a retired Russian rower who had his best achievements in the coxed pairs, together with Nikolay Safronov and Igor Rudakov. In this event they won two European medals in 1964 and 1965 [1] and finished fourth at the 1964 Summer Olympics. [2] His wife Tatyana Markvo also competed internationally in rowing.
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