Alexei Mikhailovich Guryschew

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Soviet UnionSoviet Union  Alexei Guryschew Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 14, 1925
place of birth Moscow , Russian SFSR
date of death December 16, 1983
Place of death Moscow , Russian SFSR
size 181 cm
Weight 82 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1947-1961 Krylya Sovetov Moscow

Alexei Michailowitsch Guryschew ( Russian Алексей Михайлович Гурышев ; born March 14, 1925 in Moscow ; † December 16, 1983 there ) was a Soviet ice hockey player (center), referee and Olympic champion .

Career

From 1941 Guryschew worked as a lathe operator in the Dinamo factory in Moscow and received the medal “For the Defense of Moscow” and the medal “For valiant work during the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”. In the company sports community of his factory, he first played soccer and bandy .

In 1945 he moved to the sports association Krylya Sowetow Moscow , for which he played in the bandy league in the 1945/46 season and reached the Soviet Cup final. He also ran on the soccer team of Krylya Sovetov, with whom he was master of the trade unions in the summer of 1947 . As a result, he concentrated on ice hockey and went on the ice for Krylya Sovetov in Class A , the highest Soviet league in ice hockey. In the following years he was usually one of the top scorer in the league, four times in his career he was also the top scorer in Class A (1948/49 with 29 goals, 1954/55 41 goals, 1956/57 32 goals, 1957/58 40 goals). With Krylja Sowetow he was Soviet champion in 1957 , three times runner-up (1955, 1956, 1958) and took third place in the championship five times (1950, 1951, 1954, 1959, 1960). He also won the Soviet Cup competition in 1951 and was twice in the cup finals (1952, 1954).

In 1961 he ended his career, during which he had scored a total of 379 goals in 300 games. This puts him in third place on the scorers list of the Soviet championship. In 1954 he was named the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR . In 1957 he also received the Soviet Union Medal of Honor .

After finishing his playing career, he worked as a national and international referee in ice hockey between 1963 and 1975 . After his 50th birthday, he was no longer allowed to work as a referee and became a trainer at GZOLIFK, where he coached Vladimir Petrov , among others .

International

In 1954 he was appointed to the newly formed Soviet national team. On January 29, 1954, he was in the first official game of Sbornaja against Finland on the ice. His international career was crowned with a gold medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo , and he also won one gold and four silver medals at world championships . In the national team as well as with Krylja Sowetow he played mostly with Nikolai Chlystow and Mikhail Bychkov in an attacking formation.

For the national team he scored a total of 71 goals in 92 international matches. On March 15, 1959, he played his last international match.

Achievements and Awards

  • Class A top scorer in 1949, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958
  • Golden Class A helmet 1949, 1955, 1956
  • Soviet cup winner 1951
  • Soviet vice cup winner 1952, 1954
  • World Champion 1954
  • Soviet runner-up in 1955, 1956 and 1958
  • Vice world champion 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959
  • Olympic champion 1956
  • Soviet champion 1957

statistics

year team event Sp T V Pt SM result
1954 Soviet Union WM 7th 5 5 gold gold medal
1955 Soviet Union WM 8th 7th 7th silver Silver medal
1956 Soviet Union Olympia 7th 7th 7th goldgold medal
1957 Soviet Union WM 7th 8th 8th silver Silver medal
1958 Soviet Union WM 6th 3 0 3 2 silver Silver medal
1959 Soviet Union WM 6th 5 5 silver Silver medal

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

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