Alexei Nikolaevich Mishin

Alexei Mishin
Full name	Alexei Nikolaevich Mishin
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	March 8, 1941
place of birth	Sevastopol,  Soviet Union
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Tamara Moskvina
Trainer	Igor Moskvin, Maja Belenkaya
status	resigned
End of career	1969
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships silver Colorado Springs 1969 Couples  European figure skating championships silver Västerås 1968 Couples bronze Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1969 Couples

Alexei Nikolajewitsch Mishin ( Russian Алексей Николаевич Мишин ; English Alexei Mishin ; born March 8, 1941 in Sevastopol , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet figure skater who started in pair skating and a Soviet and Russian active figure skating coach.

Career

Mishin spent his childhood in Tbilisi , later he moved with his family to Leningrad . The mechanics enthusiast Mishin did not start figure skating until the age of 15; his parents had encouraged him to do so. His first trainer was Nina Lepninskaja , a student of Nikolai Panin .

Both Mishin and his future figure skating partner Tamara Moskwina were quite successful individual runners at national level. In 1964, Mishin won the bronze medal at the Soviet championships behind Valeri Meshkov and Sergei Tschetwerukhin . The following year, at the age of 25, he switched to pair skating. Tamara Moskwina became his figure skating partner and would remain so until the end of his career in 1969. They finished third in their first joint national championships in 1966. They repeated this result a year later. In 1967 they also played their first major international tournaments. They finished sixth at both the World Championship and the European Championship . In 1968 Mishin and Moskwina became Soviet runners-up and in Västerås they were also runner-up European champions behind Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov . In the World Cup they missed a medal in fourth place and at the Olympic Games in Grenoble they finished fifth. In 1969 the couple was able to defeat the world champions of the last four years Belousova and Protopopov as well as the world champions of the next four years Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanow and thus become champions at the Soviet championship . Mishin and Moskvina could not repeat this at the European Championships and had to be content with the bronze medal as the third best Soviet couple. At the World Cup they could beat Belousova and Protopopov, but were clearly defeated by Rodnina and Ulanow and thus won the silver medal. After that, however, Moskwina decided to finish her studies and have a child instead of collecting more medals, and so the couple ended their competitive career. From then on, both concentrated on their coaching careers.

Alexei Mishin attended a technical university and became a qualified mechanic. He then did his doctorate on the "mechanical basics of the techniques in figure skating". He has no training as a coach. He's one of the few Russians who didn't get into the much more lucrative ice skating business in the United States. Mishin's students included the Olympic champions Alexei Urmanow , Alexei Yagudin and Evgeny Pljuschtschenko . He helps develop a device that measures the rotations of a figure skater during a jump. Mischin also holds summer seminars.

Mishin is married to Tatjana Mischina (née Olenewa). She is a former figure skater who was Soviet champion in 1973 and won silver in 1972 and 1974, and now works as a trainer herself. The couple has two sons, Andrei (* 1977) and Nikolai (* 1983).

Results

Pair skating

(with Tamara Moskwina )

Competition / year	1966	1967	1968	1969
winter Olympics			5.
World championships		6th	4th	2.
European championships		6th	2.	3.
Soviet championships	3.	3.	2.	1.

Web links

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• Alexei Nikolajewitsch Mischin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )