28 December 2016
Karjakin Takes 4th Place in Russia's Best Sportsman of 2016
The contest was carried out by Sport-Express newspaper.
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The Vice-World Champion grandmaster Sergey Karjakin took fourth place, surpassing two Olympic champions and many legendary sportmen: Alexander Lesun, Sofia Velikaya, Yulia Efimova, Fedor Smolov, Artyom Dzyuba, Igor Akinfeev, Evgeny Malkin, Sergey Mozyakin, Alexander Ovechkin, Timofey Mozgov, and Denis Lebedev.
The final results