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Victor Kovalenko was born on 14 February, 1996 in Kherson, Ukraine, is a sailor & coach, now the head coach of the Olympic Sailing Team. Discover Victor Kovalenko's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 28 years old?
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Kherson, Ukraine |
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He is a member of famous sailor with the age 28 years old group.
Victor Kovalenko Height, Weight & Measurements
At 28 years old, Victor Kovalenko height is 1.82 m and Weight 75 kg.
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1.82 m |
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75 kg |
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Victor Kovalenko Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Victor Kovalenko worth at the age of 28 years old? Victor Kovalenko’s income source is mostly from being a successful sailor. He is from Ukraine. We have estimated Victor Kovalenko's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Victor Kovalenko OAM (Віктор Коваленко; born 5 August 1950) is Ukrainian sailor & coach, now the head coach of the Australian Olympic Sailing Team.
Kovalenko was born in Dnipro, Ukraine, on 5 August 1950.
He learned to sail at the local "Meteor Club" when he was 12 years old.
He became a member of USSR National sailing team in 1973, sailing Flying Dutchmen and Dragons.
In 1974 he won the national Flying Dutchman championship with Valery Maydan.
That year he put racing aside to complete his education at the Nikolaev State Pedagogical Institute where he graduated with majors in Sport and Sport Science.
He began sailing 470s while at Nikolaev.
He considers that 16-foot Olympic class dinghy the most difficult and most satisfying boat to sail.
In 1978, Kovalenko met his wife, Tatiana Savenkova.
A track athlete who ran the 400 meters, Miss Kovalenko was a coach before becoming an elementary school teacher.
They are parents of one son, Vladimir, and have one grand daughter.
(Victor was USSR 470 Champion in 1981 with Michael Kudrjavtsev).
In 1983, it was announced that in 1988 women would be welcome to sail in the Olympics for the first time.
The 470 was named as the first women's class.
It fell to Kovelenko, a junior coach for USSR, to work with an inexperienced women's team of which little was expected.
Kovalenko's competitive career ended in 1984 when USSR boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics.
After his team was disbanded, he turned part-time coaching into a full-time career.
Referred as "The Medal Maker," Kovalenko has coached men and women sailors to 11 medals in many Olympic Games, beginning in 1988.
Seven of those medals are Gold.
In 1991, after the Soviet Union was dissolved, Kovalenko began coaching both men's and women's teams for Ukraine.
The 1996 Atlanta Olympics were a huge success for the newly independent country's first Olympics.
Ukrainians brought home nine Gold medals, two medals of them in sailing (gold and bronze).
But political upheaval within the country resulted in lack of support for the sailing team.
When Kovalenko was recruited by Australia, he accepted.
He moved to Sydney in 1997.
His début as Australia's coach at 2000 Sydney Olympics resulted in gold medals for both the men's and women's teams in the 470 class.
Immediately after the Sydney Olympics, he was appointed the inaugural Head Coach of the Australian Institute of Sport Sailing Program.
Australia missed the podium in Athens (2004), but at the 2008 Beijing Olympics both Kovalenko's men's and women's 470 class teams each won gold medals.
Belcher and Kovalenko have now been working together 21years.
In 2017, the book 'Medal Maker' written by Roger Vaughan on the Kovalenko's life and sailing career was published.
A film about Kovalenko based on Roger Vaughn's biographical book about him of the same name "Launch of ‘The Medal Maker’ - The story of Victor Kovalenko" is currently being shot in different parts of the world.
His aim is to coach at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after his wife said "Victor, you have to do Tokyo because you can’t finish your coaching career with a silver medal, you have to complete the job".
Kovalenko has coached the following 470 class crewed to Olympic gold medals: