KHRAMTSOV Maxim Sergeyevich

He is an active participant in international sports competitions, including the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships of the International Council of Military Sports (CISM) in Tehran (Iran). He led the russian national team at the 2024 European Taekwondo Championships in Belgrade (Serbia).
He is a member of the national team of the russian armed forces and the russian national taekwondo team.
He holds the rank of warrant officer of the russian armed forces.
He plays for the Central Sports Club of the russian army (CSKA), which is subordinated to the Ministry of Defense of the russian federation, and is the champion of the VII World Military Games 2019 in Wuhan (China).
CSKA regularly provides active assistance to the military and veterans of the so-called "SMO" by purchasing and delivering special equipment, FPV drones, generators and humanitarian supplies to the frontline, conducts military-patriotic education of children and youth, organizes and conducts sports and patriotic events and promotes international cooperation, in particular within the framework of the World Military Games project.
Thus, CSKA athletes at international competitions actually represent the armed forces of the aggressor state.
On social media, it openly supports putin's policy and russia's military aggression against Ukraine, using the letter "Z" in its posts as a symbol of the so-called "SMO". In particular, in October 2022, he filmed and published a video in which he congratulated putin on his birthday and said he was proud to support him. His post on the social network VK also contained the hashtags #ZaПрезидента, #ZaМир, #ZaРоссию (for president, for peas, for russia).
In November 2024, Khramtsov held a sporting event "II Open Taekwondo Tournament" for the prizes of Olympic champion Maxim Khramtsov" in Moscow, to which the occupation authorities of Donetsk region sent a children's team of the so-called "DPR" to participate. In addition, Khramtsov called on the organizers of other russian tournaments to bring children from the so-called "new regions" - the temporarily occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions - to compete in russia.
In 2020, Khramtsov was awarded the Medal "For Strengthening the Combatant Commonwealth" by the russian Ministry of Defense for winning the World Military Games.
In 2021, he was personally awarded the Order of Friendship by putin for "a great contribution to the development of national sports, high sports achievements, the will to win, resilience and dedication shown at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo (Japan)".