Vladimir Ivanovich Minashkin

Vladimir Ivanovich Minashkin
Personal information
Surname:	Vladimir Ivanovich Minashkin
Nation:	Russia
Swimming style (s) :	chest
Birthday:	November 16, 1928
Place of birth:	Moscow
Date of death:	2000
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Vladimir Ivanovich Minaschkin ( Russian Владимир Иванович Минашкин ; born November 16, 1928 near Moscow ; † 2000 ) was a Russian breaststroke swimmer and Honored Master of Sport , who set eight world records, four over 100 m chest and four with the 4 × 100 meter Layer scale of the USSR .

On February 11, 1953, he introduced a rule change - previously not only the butterfly arm stroke, but even the dolphin leg kick in breaststroke, before Fina created the independent discipline butterfly, common dolphin ; Herbert Klein achieved 1: 05.80 minutes on February 17, 1953, see also notes on the list of swimming world records over 100 meters chest - the world record over 200 m chest at 1: 11.90 minutes. Minaschkin improved this result twelve days later, also in Leningrad , by seven tenths of a second and was replaced on October 18, 1953 by the Pole Marek Petrusewicz (1: 10.90). Minaschkin won the world record again, this time on February 24, 1954 in Stockholm with 1: 10.50, before Petrusewicz, the grandfather of Łukasz Wójt , again beat him on May 23, 1954 in Wroclaw (1: 09.80). After Masaru Furukawa had set the record on October 1, 1955 at 1: 08.20, there was another rule change of Fina and the next world best was achieved on May 1, 1957 Vítěslav Svozil (1: 12.70). Then Lieh-Yung Chi was the world's best with 1: 11.60, before Minaschkin the record with 1: 11.50 min. was able to call his own for the fourth time on September 15, 1957 in Leipzig . After that he was only replaced four years later on May 5, 1961 in Moscow by Leonid Kolesnikow .

Minaschkin's world record times with the 4 × 100 m individual medley of the USSR were 4: 24.8 (1953), 4: 21.3, 4: 19.0 (1954) and 4: 14.8 minutes. (1956).

At the European Swimming Championships in Budapest in 1958 , the 4 × 100 m individual medley of the Soviet Union won the gold medal with him in 4: 16.5 minutes.

Web links

• World records 100 m chest men (English)
• Minaschkin on sportbiography.ru (Russian)