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Yevgeny Grishin

1931 - 2005

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Yevgeny Romanovich Grishin (Russian: Евгений Романович Гришин; 23 March 1931 – 9 July 2005) was a Soviet and Russian speedskater. Grishin trained for the largest part of his speedskating career at CSKA Moscow. A four-time Olympian (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968), he became European Champion in 1956, and won Olympic gold in the 500 meter and 1500 meter events in both 1956 and 1960 Winter Olympics (sharing the 1500 meter victories with respectively Yuri Mikhaylov and Roald Aas), competing for the USSR team. Along with his compatriot Lidiya Skoblikova, he was the most successful athlete at the 1960 Winter Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yevgeny Grishin is the 479th most popular athlete (down from 307th in 2019), the 1,424th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,398th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 479 out of 6,025. Before him are Anne-Marie Colchen, Leonid Zhabotinsky, Eliud Kipchoge, Rudolf Burkert, Władysław Kozakiewicz, and Henri Jobier. After him are Grete Waitz, Christa Stubnick, Alice Brown, Boris Melnikov, Gisela Birkemeyer, and Veikko Karvonen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 298. Before him are Hana Hegerová, Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi III, Ahmed Laraki, Mikael Tariverdiev, Tomás Balcázar, and Shuntarō Tanikawa. After him are Frank Auerbach, Ruy Guerra, Gisela Birkemeyer, Madeleine Berthod, Dimitar Dobrev, and Gene Wolfe. Among people deceased in 2005, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 180. Before him are Eugenia Charles, José Beyaert, John Fiedler, William Rehnquist, Fei Xiaotong, and Devan Nair. After him are Per Borten, Johnny Haynes, Stanley Williams, Jaime Sin, Polina Gelman, and Marc Lawrence.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 1,424 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev (1895), Izmail Sreznevsky (1812), Grigory Gagarin (1810), Marina Oswald Porter (1941), Viktor Sukhorukov (1951), and Nadezhda Udaltsova (1885). After him are Vladimir Filatov (1875), Boris Melnikov (1938), Valentin Gaft (1935), Veikko Karvonen (1926), Serhii Plokhy (1957), and Aleksey Krylov (1863).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 24. Before him are Bernd Kannenberg (1942), Pavel Lednyov (1943), Renate Boy (1939), Aleksandra Chudina (1923), Olavi Mannonen (1930), and Lyudmila Bragina (1943). After him are Boris Melnikov (1938), Veikko Karvonen (1926), Alexander Ragulin (1941), Anatoly Alyabyev (1951), Tatyana Shchelkanova (1937), and Natalya Lisovskaya (1962).

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