Curling club Granit Third Konstantin Kurokhtin Lead Alexander Shevchenko | Skip Andrey Smirnov Second Svetlana Pakhomova Alternate Marat Romanov | |
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Born June 5, 1966 (age 50)
Chelyabinsk, RSFSR, Soviet Union ( 1966-06-05 ) | ||
Marat Marsovich Romanov (Russian: Мара́т Ма́рсович Рома́нов; born 5 June 1966) is a Russian wheelchair curler playing as alternate for the Russian wheelchair curling team. He and his team won the silver medal at the 2014 Paralympic Games and gold medals at the 2012 and 2015 World Championships.
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Biography
Marat Romanov was born on 5 June 1966 in Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. After school, Marat was trained as an assistant engine driver and spent a few years in the Soviet Navy before getting the job of a smelter at the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant. In his spare time, he enjoyed mountaineering.
Romanov came to curling after a car accident in 1996, after which he received a vertebral compression fracture. He also did basketball and arm wrestling. In May 2007 he formed a curling team in Chelyabinsk, where he was a skip.
In 2009, he graduaged from the Department of Physical Education at the Ural State Academy of Physical Education in Chelyabinsk.