Nina Statkevich

Nina Statkevich

Nina Statkevich in 1970
Personal information
Born	(1944-02-16) 16 February 1944 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport	Speed skating
Club	Trud
Medal record Competitor for  Soviet Union World Championships Silver 1970 West-Allis Sprint Gold 1971 Helsinki Allround Bronze 1974 Heerenveen Allround European Championships Gold 1970 Heerenveen Allround Gold 1971 Leningrad Allround Silver 1972 Inzell Allround Bronze 1973 Brandbu Allround Silver 1974 Medeo Allround

Statkevich at the 1970 European championships

Nina Andreyevna Statkevich (Russian: Нина Андреевна Статкевич; born 16 February 1944) is a former speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union.^[1]

Nina Statkevich trained at VSS Trud in Leningrad. She won many titles – she was World Allround Champion, European Allround Champion twice, Soviet Allround Champion four times, and Soviet Sprint Champion. She also competed at the Winter Olympics, but never managed to win an Olympic medal, a fifth place at the 1972 Olympics being her best result (on both 1000 m and 3000 m).

Medals

An overview of medals won by Statkevich during important championships she participated in, listing the years in which she won each:

World records

Over the course of her career, Statkevich skated 2 world records on the then still natural ice of Medeo:

Personal bests:^[1]

• 500 m – 43.32 (1970)
• 1000 m – 1:28.1 (1973)
• 1500 m – 2:16.48 (1973)
• 3000 m – 4:43.0 (1973)
• 5000 m – 8:36.5 (1976)

References

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• Nina Statkevich at SkateResults.com