[2] After leaving secondary education he enrolled at the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University to study Information Technology.

[2] Vdovin took up athletics at the age of 10 and later joined the Specialised Children's Youth Sport School of Olympic Reserve in Zarya.

[4] In the T35-38 100m relay, he was joined by Gocha Khugaev, Roman Kapranov and Evgenii Shvetcov, beating South Africa (silver) and Ukraine (bronze) in the final.

There he entered the 400m middle-distance event where his time of 51.67 not only gave him the gold medal, but also set a new world record.

[1] Three months later he was back in the Russian team at the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships in Swansea.