Nikolai Alexejewitsch Gulyayev

Nikolai Gulyayev
Full name	Nikolai Alexejewitsch Gulyayev
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	January 1, 1966
place of birth	Vologda
size	1.92 cm
Career
discipline	Speed ​​skating
status	resigned
Medal table
winter Olympics 1 × 0 × 0 × M-World Championship medals 1 × 0 × 0 × M-EM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Calgary 1988 1000 m  All around world championships gold Heerenveen 1987 All-around  All-around European Championships gold Trondheim 1987 All-around

Nikolai Alexejewitsch Guljajew ( Russian: Николай Алексеевич Гуляев ; born January 1, 1966 in Vologda ) is a former Russian speed skater who started for the Soviet Union .

Guljajew was 1987 all around world champion in Heerenveen . He set a world record over 1500 meters and took the lead in the aristocratic calendar . He also won that year at the European all- around championship in Trondheim . Because of this success he was awarded the Oscar Mathisen Memorial Trophy .

At the Olympic Games in Calgary in 1988 , Guljajew won the gold medal over 1000 meters ahead of Uwe-Jens Mey . A few weeks before the Games, he was arrested while smuggling illegal substances, but it could not be proven that he had actually used these doping substances. So the IOC could not deny him the start in Calgary.

Web links

• Statistics at speed skating news
• Nikolai Alexejewitsch Guljajew in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )