| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men'scanoe sprint | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
 | 2004 Athens | C-2 1000 m |
| 2008 Beijing | C-2 500 m |
 | 2004 Athens | C-2 500 m |
| World Championships | ||
 | 1994 Mexico City | C-4 200 m |
| 1998 Szeged | C-2 1000 m |
| 1999 Milan | C-2 1000 m |
| 2002 Seville | C-4 200 m |
| 2005 Zagreb | C-4 200 m |
| 2006 Szeged | C-2 500 m |
| 1993 Copenhagen | C-4 500 m |
| 1993 Copenhagen | C-4 1000 m |
| 1997 Dartmouth | C-4 1000 m |
| 2003 Gainesville | C-2 1000 m |
| 2009 Dartmouth | C-4 200 m |
| 1997 Dartmouth | C-4 500 m |
| 1998 Szeged | C-4 200 m |
| 1998 Szeged | C-4 500 m |
| 1999 Milan | C-2 500 m |
| 2001 Poznań | C-4 200 m |
| 2002 Seville | C-2 500 m |
| 2010 Poznań | C-2 500 m |
| Disqualified | 2003 Gainesville | C-2 500 m |
| Disqualified | 2003 Gainesville | C-4 200 m |
| Disqualified | 2003 Gainesville | C-4 500 m |
Aleksandr Viktorovich Kostoglod (Russian:Александр Викторович Костоглод, born 31 May 1974) is aSoviet-born,Russiansprint canoeist who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in fourSummer Olympics, he won three medals, with two silvers (2004: C-2 1000 m,2008: C-2 500 m) and one bronze (2004: C-2 500 m). Kostoglod is a six-timeworld champion gold medallist in theCanadian canoe (C) events.
Kostoglod did not take up canoeing until the age of fourteen, at the suggestion of family friend and double world championVladimir Ladosha. Within a year he was champion of theUSSR in his age group. By 18 he was senior national champion and competing at theBarcelona 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 coachAlexander Abramiants was excluded from theUnified Team delegation to Barcelona.
He won the first of his six World Championship gold medals in1994, at the age of 20, inMexico City. In1998, withMaxim Opalev now representing Russia in the C-1 events, Kostoglod teamed up withAleksandr 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 the2003 championships inGainesville were stripped from Kostoglod when his teammateSergey Ulegin tested positive fordoping.
However, with no C-4 event on the schedule, Olympic medals were to prove more elusive. At the2000 Sydney Games, he and Kovalyov finished fourth in the C-2 1000m final, missing out on a medal by just 0.14 sec. At the2004 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 theWorld 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 ofNuck andHoltz, in both finals. Kostoglod won a silver in the C-2 500 m event with Ulegin at the2008 Summer Olympics inBeijing.
Kostoglod is 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) tall and weighs 93 kg (205 lb).