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{{short description|Russian canoeist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}
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|birth_date= {{birth-date and age|4 April 1979}}
|birth_place= [[Volgograd]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
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| height = 184 cm
| weight = 93 kg
|sport=[[Canoe racing|Canoe sprint]]
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{{Medal|Comp|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing]]|[[Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 500 metres|C-1 500 m]]}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney]]|[[Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 500 metres|C-1 500 m]]}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]]|[[Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 500 metres|C-1 500 m]]}}
{{Medal|Comp|World Championships}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[1998 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1998 Szeged]]|C-1 500 m}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[1999 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1999 Milan]]|C-1 200 m}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[1999 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1999 Milan]]|C-1 500 m}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[1999 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1999 Milan]]|C-1 1000 m}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2001 Poznań]]|C-1 500 m}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2002 Seville]]|C-1 200 m}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2002 Seville]]|C-1 500 m}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2002 Seville]]|C-4 200 m}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2003 Gainesville]]|C-1 200 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-1 500 m}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[1997 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1997 Dartmouth]]|C-4 1000 m}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2001 Poznań]]|C-1 200 m}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2002 Seville]]|C-1 1000 m}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2003 Gainesville]]|C-1 500 m}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2005 Zagreb]]|C-1 200 m}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[2007 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2007 Dusiburg]]|C-1 200 m}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2001 Poznań]]|C-4 200 m}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2003 Gainesville]]|C-1 1000 m}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2005 Zagreb]]|C-1 500 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}}
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'''Maksim Alexandrovich Opalev''' ({{langx|ru|Максим Александрович Опалев}}; born 4 April 1979) is a retired [[Russia]]n [[canoe racing|sprint canoeist]]. Competing in three [[Summer Olympics]], he has won a complete set of medals in the C-1 500 m event (gold: [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008]], silver: [[2000 Summer Olympics|2000]], bronze: [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004]]).<ref name=sr>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/op/maksim-opalev-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417215232/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/op/maksim-opalev-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Maksim Opalev}}</ref>

Opalev's potential was evident when he won two gold medals as a sixteen-year-old at the 1995 World Junior Championships in [[Yamanashi, Yamanashi|Yamanashi]], Japan. Competing against opponents two years older than himself he won the C-2 1000 m title (with [[Konstantin Fomichev]]) as well as the C-4 500 m gold. At the next edition of the world junior championships, in [[Lahti]], Finland, in 1997, Opalev won the C-1 1000 m title.

At the [[ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships]], Opalev has won 20 medals between 1997 and 2007. This includes eleven golds (C-1 200 m: [[1999 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1999]], [[2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2002]], [[2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2003]]; C-1 500 m: [[1998 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1998]], 1999, [[2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2001]], 2002, [[2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2006]]; C-1 1000 m: 1999, C-4 200 m: 2002, [[2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2005]]), six silvers (C-1 200 m: 2001, 2005, [[2007 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2007]]; C-1 500 m: 2003, C-1 1000 m: 2002, C-4 1000 m: [[1997 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|1997]]), and three bronzes (C-1 500 m: 2005, C-1 1000 m: 2003, C-4 200 m: 2001). Opalev also won two more medals at the [[2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|2003 world championships]] in [[Gainesville, Georgia]], United States with golds in the C-4 200 m and C-4 500 m events, but were stripped of those medals when teammate [[Sergey Ulegin]] failed a [[Doping (sport)|doping]] test.

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105013709/http://canoeicf.com/site/canoeint/if/downloads/result/Pages%201-41%20from%20Medal%20Winners%20ICF%20updated%202007-2.pdf?MenuID=Results%2F1107%2F0%2CMedal%5Fwinners%5Fsince%5F1936%2F1510%2F0 |date=2010-01-05 |title=ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 }}
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