Mikalai Zhukavets
Mikalai Yuryievich Zhukavets is a Belarusian windsurfer, who specialized in class. A two-time Olympian, he is ranked no. 34 in the world for the sailboard class by the International Sailing Federation. Zhukavets also trains for Moshvsm Sailing Club in Minsk under his personal coach and mentor Uladzimir Khaladzinski.
Zhukavets made his debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he placed twenty-eighth out of thirty-five sailors in the men's RS:X class with a net score of 229.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Zhukavets qualified for his second Belarusian team, as a 26-year-old, in the RS:X class by receiving an automatic berth from the in Cadiz, Spain. Struggling to attain a top position in the opening series including his incomplete race on the eighth leg, Zhukavets accumulated a net score of 208 points to deliver a 27th-place finish overall in a fleet of thirty-eight windsurfers.
