Yevgeny Grishin

Medal record
Competitor for  Soviet Union
Men's Speed skating
Olympic Games
Gold 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 500 m
Gold 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 1500 m
Gold 1960 Squaw Valley 500 m
Gold 1960 Squaw Valley 1500 m
Silver 1964 Innsbruck 500 m
World Championships
Bronze 1954 Sapporo Allround
Bronze 1956 Oslo Allround
European Championships
Gold 1956 Helsinki Allround

Yevgeny Romanovich Grishin (Russian: Евгений Романович Гришин) (23 March 1931, Tula – 9 July 2005, Moscow) was a Soviet/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 1,500 meter events in both 1956 and 1960 Winter Olympics (sharing the 1,500 meter victories with respectively Yuri Mikhailov 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.

Grishin was the first to break the 40 second barrier on the 500 m, skating 39.6 in a test race in Squaw Valley in 1960, just after the Winter Olympic Games at the same location. This result was not officially recognised as a world record. Three years later, on 27--28 January 1963, he set officially ratified world records 39.6 and 39.5 at the Medeo 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 7 world records; the 1.22.8 time of the 1,000 m lasted 12 years.

World records

Over the course of his career, Grishin skated seven world records:

Event Result Date Venue
1,500 m 2:09.8 10 January 1955 Medeo
1,000 m 1:22.8 12 January 1955 Medeo
500 m 40.2 22 January 1956 Misurina
500 m 40.2 28 January 1956 Misurina
1,500 m 2:08.6 30 January 1956 Misurina
500 m 39.6 27 January 1963 Medeo
500 m 39.5 28 January 1963 Medeo

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