Konstantin Lokhanov's mother worked in government procurement in the Saratov Ministry of Health, his father worked as a signalman, and the family was not wealthy.
20 Facts About Konstantin Lokhanov
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Konstantin Lokhanov's father moved to Kazakhstan after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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In 2015 Konstantin Lokhanov won a gold medal at the European Cadet Championships in Maribor, Slovenia, and a silver medal in the 2015 World Cadets Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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Konstantin Lokhanov won a bronze medal at the January 2016 Phoenix Fencing World Cup in Arizona, in the United States.
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Konstantin Lokhanov won silver medals at the October 2016 Plovidv World Cup in Bulgaria, and the November 2016 Sochi World Cup in Russia.
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Konstantin Lokhanov won a gold medal in team sabre at the 2016 World Junior Fencing Championships.
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Konstantin Lokhanov won the 2017 World Junior Fencing Championship in individual sabre, as well as in team sabre.
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Konstantin Lokhanov won a gold medal at the October 2017 Sosnowiec World Cup in Poland, and won a bronze medal at the 2017 Plovidv World Cup in Bulgaria.
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Konstantin Lokhanov won a gold medal at the November 2017 Sochi World Cup in Russia.
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Konstantin Lokhanov repeated, and won the 2018 World Junior Fencing Championship in individual sabre, giving him a total of four junior world championships.
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At the 2019 World Fencing Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Konstantin Lokhanov was defeated in the quarter-finals by gold medal winner Oh Sang-uk of South Korea.
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In 2021, Konstantin Lokhanov competed in sabre at the Tokyo Olympics.
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Konstantin Lokhanov went into surgery in Germany for a hip injury the day before Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and woke up to the news of the attack.
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Konstantin Lokhanov then rehabbed in Germany, and emigrated to the United States in May 2022.
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In September 2020, six years after they met and two years after they began dating, Konstantin Lokhanov married fellow Olympic sabre fencer Sofia Pozdniakova.
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Konstantin Lokhanov is a 2018 individual sabre world champion, 2019 team sabre world champion, and 2021 both individual sabre and team sabre Olympic champion.
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Konstantin Lokhanov's surgery led to him spending the next six weeks on crutches.
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Konstantin Lokhanov emigrated to the United States in 2022, after the outbreak of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, strongly opposed to Russia's war.
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Konstantin Lokhanov's father-in-law was Stanislav Pozdniakov, himself a former Olympic sabre fencer, who won four Olympic fencing gold medals and was a 10-time sabre world champion.
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Konstantin Lokhanov has served as the president of the Russian Olympic Committee since 2018.