Igor Anatoljewitsch Romischewski

Igor Romischewski
Date of birth	March 25, 1940
place of birth	Zhukovsky , Russian SFSR
date of death	September 28, 2013
Place of death	Moscow , Russia
size	177 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	defender
Career stations
1960-1961	SKA Kuibyshev
1961-1972	HK CSKA Moscow

Igor Anatoljewitsch Romischewski ( Russian Игорь Анатольевич Ромишевский ; born March 25, 1940 in Zhukovsky , Moscow Oblast ; †  September 28, 2013 in Moscow , Russia ) was a Soviet ice hockey player and coach .

Career

Romischewski (center) receives an award, May 1970

For the 1960/61 season, the defender began his career at SKA Kuibyshev, before he moved to the then elite club HK CSKA Moscow in 1961 and stayed there until he ended his active career after the 1970/71 season. He won the Soviet championship nine times. In total, he scored 126 goals in 437 games in the Soviet league.

By 1969 he completed a degree in electrical engineering at the Moscow School of Forestry and Technology , in 1974 he received his doctorate.

International

He was appointed to the Soviet national ice hockey team at an early age . On February 26, 1965 he was in a game against Canada for the first time for the Sbornaja on the ice. His international career was crowned with gold medals at the 1968 and 1972 Winter Olympics . For the national team, he scored 15 goals in 129 international matches. At the ice hockey world championships he was twice world champion with his team (1968 and 1971). In 1968 he was inducted into the "Russian Hockey Hall of Fame". On April 18, 1972, he played his last international match.

Trainer and functionary

In 1974 he became head of the Department of Physical Education and Sport of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology , and between 1975 and 1979 he was parallel chairman of the Soviet Ice Hockey Federation. Between 1979 and 1981 he worked as a trainer for SKA Leningrad .

In 1995 he became vice-president of the Golden Puck Association , which is responsible for the organization of the largest Russian youth ice hockey tournament. In 2006 he was elected president of the association.

Achievements and Awards

1961: Soviet champion with CSKA Moscow 1963: Soviet champion with CSKA Moscow 1964: Soviet champion with CSKA Moscow 1965: Soviet champion with CSKA Moscow 1966: Soviet cup winner with CSKA Moscow 1966: Soviet champion with CSKA Moscow 1967: Soviet cup winner with CSKA Moscow 1967: Soviet runner-up with CSKA Moscow 1968: Soviet champion with CSKA Moscow

1968: Soviet cup winner with CSKA Moscow 1969: Soviet runner-up with CSKA Moscow 1969: Soviet cup winner with CSKA Moscow 1969: Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union 1970: Soviet champion with CSKA Moscow 1971: Soviet champion with CSKA Moscow 1972: Soviet champion with CSKA Moscow 1972: Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union 1996: Order of Friendship

International

• 1968: Gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 1969: Gold medal at the world championship
• 1970: Gold medal at the world championship
• 1971: Gold medal at the world championship
• 1972: Gold medal at the Winter Olympics
• 1972: Silver medal at the world championship

Web links

• Biography at peoples.ru (Russian)
• Statistics at chidlovski.net (English)
• Igor Anatoljewitsch Romischewski in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Игорь Ромишевский: На шайбу, как на амбразуру (Russian)