section_path: Personal life
section_name: Personal life
paragraph_text: Personal life
  
  In 2006 at a preseason charity golf tournament in Springfield, Virginia, while playing golf for his first time, Ovechkin made a hole in one on a par 3 hole.
  
  Ovechkin was formerly engaged to tennis player Maria Kirilenko. On 21 July 2014, Kirilenko announced that the wedding was called off and that the two were no longer seeing each other. On 11 September 2015, Ovechkin announced his engagement to Nastya Shubskaya, the daughter of Russian actress Vera Glagoleva, whom he subsequently married.
  
  Ovechkin and his wife have two children. In August 2018, the couple had a son, whom they named after Ovechkin's late brother. In May 2020, the couple had a second son.
  
  By June 2021, Ovechkin was studying for and close to obtaining a Candidate of Sciences, the Russian equivalent of a PhD. Ovechkin's field of study is Pedagogical Sciences.
  
  In 2006 at a preseason charity golf tournament in Springfield, Virginia, while playing golf for his first time, Ovechkin made a hole in one on a par 3 hole.
  
  Ovechkin was formerly engaged to tennis player Maria Kirilenko. On 21 July 2014, Kirilenko announced that the wedding was called off and that the two were no longer seeing each other. On 11 September 2015, Ovechkin announced his engagement to Nastya Shubskaya, the daughter of Russian actress Vera Glagoleva, whom he subsequently married.
  
  Ovechkin and his wife have two children. In August 2018, the couple had a son, whom they named after Ovechkin's late brother. In May 2020, the couple had a second son.
  
  By June 2021, Ovechkin was studying for and close to obtaining a Candidate of Sciences, the Russian equivalent of a PhD. Ovechkin's field of study is Pedagogical Sciences.