Yevgeny Romanovich Grishin (russian: Евгений Романович Гришин; 23 March 1931 – 9 July 2005) was a

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and

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. Grishin trained for the largest part of his speedskating career at CSKA Moscow. He became European Champion in 1956, and won

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gold in the 500 meter and 1500 meter events in both

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and

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(sharing the 1500 meter victories with respectively Yuri Mikhaylov and

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), competing for the USSR team. Along with his compatriot

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, he was the most successful athlete at the 1960 Winter Olympics.Yevgeny Grishin at Sports Reference
/ref> Grishin was the first to break the 40 second barrier on the 500 m, skating 39.6 in an unofficial test race in Squaw Valley in 1960, just after the Winter Olympic Games at the same location. Three years later, on 27–28 January 1963, he set officially ratified

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s 39.6 and 39.5 at the Medeu track. He also won 2 bronze medals in the World Championships, in 1954 and 1956. He had 12 single distance wins in his 14 starts in allround championships. Over the course of his career Grishin set seven world records; the 1:22.8 time of the 1000 m lasted 12 years.

World records

Over the course of his career, Grishin skated seven

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: Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com

References

External links

Yevgeny Grishin at SpeedSkatingStats.com

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grishin, Yevgeny 1931 births 2005 deaths Sportspeople from Tula, Russia Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Merited Coaches of the Soviet Union Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Russian male speed skaters Soviet male speed skaters Olympic speed skaters of the Soviet Union Speed skaters at the 1956 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1968 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in speed skating Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1960 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists World record setters in speed skating Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery