2024-25 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 82 kg, No. 2 at 77 kg

Years on Team USA: 2 (2023-25)

Residence: Poway, Calif.

Club: New York Athletic Club

College: Belarusian State, State College of Olympic Reserve

Born: April 9, 1980

Olympic Games

2012 Olympic Games (5th at 74 kg for Belarus), 2004 Olympic Games (15th at 74 kg for Belarus)

Past Senior World Teams

2011 Senior World Championships (11th at 74 kg for Belarus), 2010 Senior World Championships (22nd at 74 kg for Belarus), 2009 Senior World Championships (Bronze at 74 kg for Belarus), 2005 Senior World Championships (31st at 74 kg for Belarus), 2003 Senior World Championships (6th at 74 kg for Belarus), 2002 Senior World Championships (8th at 74 kg for Belarus)

Past Age-Group World Teams

1996 Cadet World Championships (4th at 40 kg for Belarus)

Career Highlights

2024 Senior World Team Trials champion
2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up
2023 Senior World Team Trials Challenge tournament champion
2023 US Open runner-up
Two-time NYAC Holiday International Wrestling Championships champion (2018, 2016)
Fifth at 2012 London Games
2011 World Cup champion
2010 European Championships champion
2009 World bronze medalist
2009 European Championships bronze medalist
Two-time Olympian for Belarus (2012, 2004)
2003 European Championships silver medalist

Career Biography

2024: Senior World Team Trials champion at 82 kg…U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up…

2023: Final X runner-up…Senior World Team Trials Challenge tournament champion…US Open runner-up…

2019 (competing for Belarus): Bill Farrell Memorial International runner-up…

2018 (competing for Belarus): Bill Farrell Memorial International champion…

2017 (competing for Belarus): Fourth at Dave Schultz Memorial International…

2016 (competing for Belarus): Bill Farrell Memorial International champion…Fourteenth at Olympic Qualification Tournament…Third at Grand Prix of Hungary…

2015 (competing for Belarus): Third at Oleg Karavaev Memorial…Seventh at Wladyslaw Pytlasinski Cup…Fifth at Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament…Tenth at FILA Grand Prix…

2014 (competing for Belarus): Third at the Oleg Karavaev Memorial…Sixteenth at Ivan Poddubny Tournament…

2013 (competing for Belarus): Fifteenth at Golden Grand Prix…Tenth at World Cup…Nineteenth at Ivan Poddubny Tournament…

2012 (competing for Belarus): Fifth at 2012 London Games…Olympic Qualification Tournament runner-up…Fifth at Golden Grand Prix…

2011 (competing for Belarus): World Cup champion (Belarus)…Oleg Karavaev Memorial runner-up…Eleventh at Senior World Championships…President Cup of Kazakhstan champion…Vehbi Emre runner-up…

2010 (competing for Belarus): Twenty-second at Senior World Championships…Third at Golden Grand Prix…European Championships champion…Third at Spring Golden Grand Prix…

2009 (competing for Belarus): Senior World Championships bronze medalist…European Championships bronze medalist…

2008 (competing for Belarus): Olympic Qualification Tournament runner-up…Thirteenth at European Championships…

2007 (competing for Belarus): Twenty-fourth at European Championships…

2006 (competing for Belarus): Golden Grand Prix runner-up…

2005 (competing for Belarus): Thirty-first at Senior World Championships…Tenth at the Grand Prix of Germany…Third at Dave Schultz Memorial International…

2004 (competing for Belarus): Fifteenth at the 2004 Athens Games…

2003 (competing for Belarus): Sixth at the Senior World Championships…European Championships runner-up…

2002 (competing for Belarus): Eighth at the Senior World Championships…

College: Earned a Bachelor of Science of Law, a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from Belarusian State University…State College of Olympic Reserve graduate with a specialty in Physical Education…

Age-Group Achievements (competing for Belarus): Twelfth at the 2000 Junior European Championships…Fifth at the 1999 Junior European Championships…Ninth at the 1998 Junior European Championships…Fourth at 1996 Cadet World Championships…

Personal: Has two sons, both accomplished wrestlers, Arseni and Aliaksandr…Assistant wrestling coach at Poway High School…Former wrestling coach for National Team of Greco-Roman Wrestling in Belarus…Former police officer and Anti-Terrorist officer in Belarus…

Awards: Merited Master of Sports of Belarus…World-Class athlete of Belarus…Master of Sport of an International grade…

Instagram: aliaksandr_kikiniou

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