Olympic water polo champion Vladimir Akimov will be enshrined in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF), Olympic diving champion Elena Vaitsekhovskaya wrote on the Telegram channel.
She said she received confirmation from one of the ISHOF leaders.
— Volodya’s career and mine happened at the same time, we trained for many years in the same pool, playing for CSKA, so it is especially nice that the world aquatic community voted for Volodya.
He died at the age of 34 – by today’s standards this is not an age for a water polo player at all, but all subsequent generations of water polo players could not even dream of ‘a track record… – wrote Vaitsekhovskaya.
Vladimir Akimov – Olympic champion (1980), World Cup winner (1981), world champion (1982), multiple champion of the USSR and Europe.
Source : MatchTV
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