Alexei Mishin

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Alexei Nikolaevich Mishin (born in 1941) is a Russian former figure skater and a current coach.

Among Mishin's pupils are Olympic champion Alexei Urmanov, World and Olympic Champions Alexei Yagudin, and Evgeni Plushenko and several champions of the Soviet Union and Russia. Mishin also advises many other skaters from other countries during his seminars in the summer. Among those who have benefited from his expertise are Romania's Georghe Chiper and Swiss skater Stéphane Lambiel.

Mishin started skating at the age of 15. He competed in singles within the Soviet Union and in 1966 he started competing internationally in pairs with Tamara Moskvina. Together they won the 1969 USSR Championship -- defeating both the two-time Olympic Gold medalists Ludmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov, and the future champions Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov -- and placed second at the 1969 World Figure Skating Championships. They won the Silver medal (1968) and the Bronze medal (1969) at the European Championships. They later decided to retire to concentrate on a coaching career. Mishin was only 28.

Mishin graduated from university with a degree in mechanics and started his dissertation on the mechanical base of figure skating technique. He started teaching singles, both men and ladies and soon became a well-known coach thanks to his exercise techniques and methods for conditioning that made the skaters learn jumps very quickly.


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