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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. 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 3,200 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Yevgeny Grishin is the 147th most popular athlete (down from 143rd in 2019), the 1,113th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,007th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 147 out of 3,059Before him are Vsevolod Bobrov, Charilaos Vasilakos, Gaston Roelants, John Carlos, Waldemar Cierpinski, and Oscar Pistorius. After him are John Ljunggren, Nils von Kantzow, Francisco Lázaro, Tilly Fleischer, Harrison Dillard, and Galina Chistyakova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 221Before him are Rolf Hochhuth, Jan Johansson, David Janssen, Jean Béliveau, Yulian Semyonov, and Christian Metz. After him are Ole-Johan Dahl, Boris Pankin, Bridget Riley, Françoise Arnoul, Hana Brady, and Hana Hegerová. Among people deceased in 2005, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 134Before him are Dan O'Herlihy, Don Adams, Tonino Delli Colli, Leo Sternbach, Ferruccio Valcareggi, and Romano Scarpa. After him are Tilly Fleischer, Link Wray, Wee Kim Wee, Jacques Villeret, Shoji Nishio, and Stanley Williams.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 1,113 out of 3,262Before him are Söyembikä of Kazan (1516), Oleg Yefremov (1927), Dmitry of Suzdal (1322), Ivan Mosjoukine (1889), Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (1912), and Pavel Batov (1897). After him are Nikolay Kamov (1902), Alexander Petrov (1799), Paul Gorguloff (1895), Dmitry Laptev (1701), Boris Parygin (1930), and Aleksandr Khinchin (1894).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Yevgeny Grishin ranks 10Before him are Yelena Isinbayeva (1982), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), Irena Szewińska (1946), Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930), Vyacheslav Vedenin (1941), and Vsevolod Bobrov (1922). After him are Vera Krepkina (1933), Natalya Lisovskaya (1962), Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), Nina Ponomaryova (1929), Sergey Litvinov (1958), and Alexander Ragulin (1941).