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{{Medal|Sport|Men's [[Canoe racing|canoe sprint]]}}
{{Medal|Olympic}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]]|[[Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's C-2 1000 metres|C-2 1000 m]]}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing]]|[[Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's C-2 500 metres|C-2 500 m]]}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]]|[[Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's C-2 500 metres|C-2 500 m]]}}
{{Medal|WorldChampionships}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[1994 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1994 Mexico City]]|C-4 200 m}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[1998 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1998 Szeged]]|C-2 1000 m}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[1999 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1999 Milan]]|C-2 1000 m}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2002 Seville]]|C-4 200 m}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2005 Zagreb]]|C-4 200 m}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2006 Szeged]]|C-2 500 m}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1993 Copenhagen]]|C-4 500 m}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1993 Copenhagen]]|C-4 1000 m}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[1997 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1997 Dartmouth]]|C-4 1000 m}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2003 Gainesville]]|C-2 1000 m}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2009 Dartmouth]]|C-4 200 m}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[1997 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1997 Dartmouth]]|C-4 500 m}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[1998 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1998 Szeged]]|C-4 200 m}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[1998 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1998 Szeged]]|C-4 500 m}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[1999 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1999 Milan]]|C-2 500 m}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2001 Poznań]]|C-4 200 m}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2002 Seville]]|C-2 500 m}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2010 Poznań]]|C-2 500 m}}
{{Medal|Disqualified|[[2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2003 Gainesville]]|C-2 500 m}}
{{Medal|Disqualified|[[2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2003 Gainesville]]|C-4 200 m}}
{{Medal|Disqualified|[[2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2003 Gainesville]]|C-4 500 m}}
}}

'''Aleksandr Viktorovich Kostoglod'''  ({{langx|ru|Александр Викторович Костоглод}}, born 31 May 1974) is a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]-born, [[Russia]]n [[canoe racing|sprint canoeist]] who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in four [[Summer Olympics]], he won three medals, with two silvers ([[2004 Summer Olympics|2004]]: C-2 1000 m, [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008]]: C-2 500 m) and one bronze (2004: C-2 500 m). Kostoglod is a six-time [[ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|world champion gold medallist]] in the [[Sprint canoe|Canadian canoe (C)]] events.

Kostoglod did not take up canoeing until the age of fourteen, at the suggestion of family friend and double world champion [[Vladimir Ladosha]]. Within a year he was champion of the [[USSR]] in his age group. By 18 he was senior national champion and competing at the [[1992 Summer Olympics|Barcelona Olympics]], He was disappointed to finish tenth in the C-1 1000 m but has since admitted that as a youngster he was relying on his natural strength to make up for his lack of technique. It did not help that his coach [[Alexander Abramiants]] was excluded from the [[Unified Team at the Olympics|Unified Team]] delegation to Barcelona.

He won the first of his six World Championship gold medals in [[1994 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1994]], at the age of 20, in [[Mexico City]]. In [[1998 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1998]], with [[Maxim Opalev]] now representing Russia in the C-1 events, Kostoglod teamed up with [[Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kovalyov|Aleksandr Kovalyov]] for the C-2. The pairing was an immediate success, winning two consecutive world 1000 m titles in 1998 and 1999. His other three medals have all come in the C-4 events. Three medals he won at the [[2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2003 championships]] in [[Gainesville, Georgia|Gainesville]] were stripped from Kostoglod when his teammate [[Sergey Ulegin]] tested positive for [[doping (sport)|doping]].

However, with no C-4 event on the schedule, Olympic medals were to prove more elusive. At the [[Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney Games]], he and Kovalyov finished fourth in the C-2 1000m final, missing out on a medal by just 0.14 sec. At the [[Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens Olympics]] they were finally rewarded with two medals, silver in the C-2 1000 m and bronze in the C-2 500 m.

In 2006, Kostoglod and Kovalyov came fifth at the European Championships and sixth at the [[2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|World Championships]] in the C-2 1000 m. For the C-2 500 m events however Kostoglod was partnered instead by Ulegin. Together they became both European and world champions, finishing over a second ahead of their nearest challengers, the German pairing of [[Robert Nuck|Nuck]] and [[Stefan Holtz|Holtz]], in both finals. Kostoglod won a silver in the C-2 500 m event with Ulegin at the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] in [[Beijing]].

Kostoglod is {{convert|185|cm|ftin|abbr=on}} tall and weighs {{convert|93|kg|lb|abbr=on}}.

==References==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120311160255/http://zap.norex.ca/bio/athlete/708/ Canoe09.ca profile]
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*{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/aleksandr-kostoglod-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417215111/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/aleksandr-kostoglod-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Aleksandr Kostoglod}}

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