Alexei Mishin
Alexei Nikolaevich Mishin (Russian Алексей Николаевич Мишин, March 8, 1941 in Sevastopol ) is a former Russian figure skater, who started in pair skating for the Soviet Union and an active figure skating coach.
Career
Mishin spent his childhood in Tbilisi, later he moved to Leningrad with his family. The mechanics enthusiastic Mishin began at the age of 15 years with the figure skating, his parents had encouraged him. His first trainer was Nina Lepninskaja, a student of Nikolai Panin.
Both Mishin as well as his partner Tamara Moskvina later figure skating were quite successful individual runners at the national level. 1964 Mishin won the bronze medal at the Soviet Championships behind Walerie Meshkov and Sergei Tschetweruchin. The following year he moved, 25 years old, the pair of running. Tamara Moskvina was his figure skating partner and should remain until the end of his career in 1969. In their first joint national championships in 1966 they were third parties. This result they repeated a year later. In 1967, she contested her first major international tournaments. Both at the World Championships as well as at the European Championships, they were sixth. In 1968, Mishin and Moskvina Soviet runner-up in Västerås and also vice - European champion Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg behind Protopopov. At the World Championships she missed a medal in fourth place and at the Olympic Games in Grenoble they finished fifth. In 1969, the couple at the Soviet Championship defeat the world champions the last four years Belousova and Protopopov as well as the world champion of the next four years, Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov and thus become champions. This could Mishin and Moskvina at the European Championships but do not repeat and had to be the third best soviet pair settle for the bronze medal. At the World Cup they could Belousova and Protopopov beat, but subject clearly Rodnina and Ulanov and thus won the silver medal. After that Moskvina but decided to complete their studies and to have a child instead of collecting more medals and so the couple ended his competitive career. Both concentrated from then on to their coaching career.
Alexei Mishin attended a Technical University and was qualified mechanic. He then completed a doctorate on the "mechanical foundations of the techniques in figure skating ." He has no coach education. He is one of the few Russians who did not make it pulled into the much more lucrative ice business in the U.S.. To Mischins students were the Olympic champions Alexei Urmanow, Alexei Yagudin and Evgeni Plyushchenko. He assists in the development of a device that turns a figure skater attaches a jump. Mishin also holds summer seminars.
Mishin is married to Tatiana Mishina (born Olenewa ). She is a former figure skater and now works as a trainer himself. The couple has two sons, Andrei ( b. 1977 ) and Nikolai ( b. 1983 ).
Results
Pair of running
( with Tamara Moskvina )