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Sergey Tetyukhin

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Sergey Tetyukhin

Russia · 1993–2018

Medalled at four different Olympic Games, twelve years apart.

4
Olympic medals
2012
Olympic gold
6
Olympics played
2
World League titles

Career

Tetyukhin won Olympic medals in 2000, 2004, 2008 and finally gold in 2012, when Russia came from two sets down in the final against Brazil. He carried his country's flag at the 2016 opening ceremony at the age of forty.

Honours

  • Olympic gold in 2012 after trailing two sets to none in the final
  • Olympic medals at four separate Games
  • World Championship winner, 1999
  • Competed at six Olympic Games

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