Aleksandr Timoshinin

Aleksandr Ivanovich Timoshinin (Russian: Александр Иванович Тимошинин, 20 May 1948 – 26 November 2021) was a Russian rower.

Aleksandr Timoshinin

Personal information
Born	20 May 1948 (1948-05-20) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	26 November 2021 (2021-11-27) (aged 73)
Medal record Men's rowing Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1968 Mexico City Double sculls 1972 Munich Double sculls European Rowing Championships 1973 Moscow Double sculls

Biography

Born in Moscow, he later competed for the Soviet Union in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics.^[1]

At the 1968 Olympics, Timoshuinin and his partner Anatoliy Sass won the gold medal in the double sculls event. Four years later he won his second gold medal this time with his partner Gennadi Korshikov in the double sculls competition.

In 1972, Timoshinin won the Diamond Challenge Sculls (the premier singles sculls event) at the Henley Royal Regatta, rowing for WMF Moscow.^[2]

Timoshinin died on 26 November 2021, at the age of 73, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia.^[3]