Sergei Nailjewitsch Gimaev

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Sergei Gimaev
Date of birth January 1, 1955
place of birth Prushany , Belarusian SSR
date of death 18th March 2017
Place of death Tula , Russia
size 193 cm
Weight 94 kg
position defender
Career stations
1974-1976 SKA Kuibyshev
1976-1985 CSKA Moscow
1985-1986 SKA Leningrad

Sergei Nailjewitsch Gimajew ( Russian Сергей Наильевич Гимаев ; Bashkir Сергей Наил улы Ғимаев / Sergei Nail uly Gimaev; English Sergei Gimayev * 1. January 1955 in pruzhany , Byelorussian SSR , Soviet Union ; † 18th March 2017 in Tula , Russia ) was a Soviet or Russian ice hockey player and coach as well as commentator and television expert for the Russian broadcasters Rossija 2 and Sport-1 . His son Sergei Gimaev is also a hockey player.

Career

Sergei Gimajew was the son of a military pilot from Bashkiria who, after serving in World War II, was stationed first in Ukraine , then in Poland and finally in Belarus . He found his wife in Ukraine, had a daughter with her in Poland and his son Sergei in Belarus. After that, the station was stationed on Kamchatka until 1961 and only after the father's demobilization did the family move to Ufa ( Bashkir ASSR ), where the children grew up.

Beginnings in Ufa

Sergei Gimaev was a sporty kid who played a lot of different sports. He was most fascinated by ice hockey, which he began at the age of eleven in the Salawat Yulayev Ufa sports school . He played for Salawat until he was a junior and attended evening school at the local aviation institute.

He was later drafted into the Red Army and served in the Orenburg region for a month before being delegated to the SKA Kuibyshev Army Sports Club . There he trained and played under Yuri Moissejew for two years . Because of his development there and the performances shown, he was delegated to CSKA Moscow in 1976 , with seven other teams in the top Soviet league also showing interest in Gimaev.

Success with the CSKA

By the end of his career in the summer of 1986, Gimajew celebrated numerous national and international successes, including nine Soviet championships in a row, two cup wins and three European Cup triumphs. His defensive partner at CSKA Moscow was Alexei Alexejewitsch Woltschenkow for many years .

He spent the last season of his career at SKA Leningrad . In 305 games in the Wysschaja Liga Gimajew reached a total of 45 goals. His only international matches for the Soviet Union, he completed in 1982 in the Rudé Právo Cup and Izvestia Cup .

As a trainer and TV commentator

After finishing his active career, he graduated from the Pedagogical Institute in Moscow and became a children's and youth trainer. Among other things, he coached the Soviet junior national team born in 1972 and 1973 from 1986. Between 1992 and 2006 he was also director of the CSKA sports school in Moscow. With the U18 junior national team, he won the gold medal at the U18 European Championships in 1996 as assistant coach to Vladimir Schadrin , with nine of his sports students playing in the team. In 2008, he won the silver medal at the U18 Junior World Championship as an assistant coach .

Gimajew worked as a commentator and ice hockey expert for the television channels Rossija 2 and Sport-1 and played at the same time for the old men team "Legends of USSR". On March 18, 2017, he suffered a myocardial infarction during a Legends game in Tula and passed away the same day.

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Гимаев Сергей Наильевич - заслуженный мастер спорта. hokkeist.info, March 24, 2013, archived from the original on February 22, 2014 ; Retrieved March 20, 2017 (Russian).
  2. ↑ a b Состав от А до Я - Гимаев Сергей Наильевич . HK CSKA Moscow website , accessed March 20, 2017 (in Russian).
  3. ↑ a b Гимаев Сергей Защитник. hclegends.ru / Легенды хоккея, archived from the original on April 16, 2013 ; Retrieved March 20, 2017 (Russian).
  4. ↑ Sergei Demidow (Сергей Демидов): Умер Алексей Волченков. Скончался бывший хоккеист ЦСКА Алексей Волченков. Gazeta , January 10, 2011, accessed March 20, 2017 (Russian).
  5. ↑ Caps players mourn sudden death of Russian hockey legend Sergei Gimaev. In: russianmachineneverbreaks.com. March 18, 2017, accessed March 20, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Sergei Gimaev has passed away. Russian Ice Hockey Federation, March 18, 2017, accessed March 20, 2017 (in Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Gimajew, Sergei Nailjewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гимаев, Сергей Наильевич; Gimayev, Sergei (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ice hockey player, coach and sports journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Prushany , Belarusian SSR , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH 18th March 2017
Place of death Tula , Russia