Igor Anatolyevich Stelnov

Igor Stelnov
Date of birth	March 12, 1963
place of birth	Moscow , Russian SFSR
date of death	March 24, 2009
Place of death	Moscow , Russia
size	182 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	defender
Career stations
1980-1991	HK CSKA Moscow
1991-1993	Chimik Voskressensk
1993-1994	AS Asiago Hockey
1996-1998	HK CSKA Moscow

Igor Anatoljewitsch Stelnow ( Russian Игорь Анатольевич Стельнов ; born March 12, 1963 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ; † March 24, 2009 in Moscow, Russia ) was a Russian ice hockey player and coach .

Career

During his career, the defender played for HK CSKA Moscow . Only after the collapse of the Soviet Union did he move to Sweden and Italy for one season. In total, he scored 20 goals in 409 games in the Soviet league . He was appointed to the Soviet national ice hockey team at an early age . On August 21, 1981 he was in a game against Czechoslovakia for the first time for the Sbornaja on the ice. His international career was crowned with gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Winter Olympics . For the national team, he scored 13 goals in 153 international matches. On April 5, 1990, he played his last international match. In 1984 he was inducted into the " Russian Hockey Hall of Fame ".

Most recently he was assistant coach for the Russian first division club HK MWD Balaschicha before he died on March 24, 2009 at the age of 46 after a serious illness.

His tomb is in the Khovanskoye cemetery .

Web links

• Igor Stelnow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Statistics at chidlovski.net (engl.)
• Igor Anatoljewitsch Stelnow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ iihf.com, Igor Stelnov passes away ( Memento from March 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )