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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yevgeny Grishin has received more than 3,381 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Yevgeny Grishin is the 293rd most popular athlete (down from 147th in 2019), the 1,398th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,111th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 293 out of 6,025. Before him are Duje Bonačić, Netti Witziers-Timmer, Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Karl Hein, and Vilho Niittymaa. After him are Albert Tyler, Micheline Ostermeyer, Henri Deloge, Camille Mandrillon, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Jonni Myyrä.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 278. Before him are John Zizioulas, Hans Alfredson, Shammi Kapoor, Tomás Balcázar, Corinne Marchand, and Boris Pankin. After him are Arne Selmosson, Osvaldo Héctor Cruz, Hana Hegerová, Lisbeth Palme, Vance D. Brand, and Ivan Dziuba. Among people deceased in 2005, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 171. Before him are Mustai Karim, Erik Balling, Johnny Haynes, Frank Gorshin, Netti Witziers-Timmer, and Jacques Dufilho. After him are Attilâ İlhan, Laurel Aitken, Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi, Stanley Williams, Shoji Nishio, and Polina Gelman.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 1,398 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksandr Baryatinsky (1815), Sascha Schneider (1870), Yevgeny Yevstigneyev (1926), Dmitri Egorov (1869), Agafya Grushetskaya (1663), and Marina Oswald Porter (1941). After him are Anatoli Maslyonkin (1930), Valentina Tolkunova (1946), Vladimir Odoyevsky (1803), Boris Delaunay (1890), Pavel Filonov (1883), and Konstantin Aksakov (1817).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 19. Before him are Natalya Lisovskaya (1962), Tatyana Kazankina (1951), Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), Vladimir Melanin (1933), Sergey Litvinov (1958), and Alexander Ragulin (1941). After him are Renate Boy (1939), Aleksandra Chudina (1923), Veikko Hakulinen (1925), Olha Bryzhina (1963), Bernd Kannenberg (1942), and Maria Itkina (1932).

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