Igor Romishevsky
Igor Anatoljevich Romischewski (Russian Игорь Анатольевич Ромишевский; born March 25, 1940 in Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast, † September 28, 2013 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet ice hockey player and coach.
- 2.1 International
Career
For the 1960/61 season the defender began his career at the SKA Kuibyshev, before he moved in 1961 to the then elite club HK CSKA Moscow and remained there until he finished his playing career after the 1970/71 season. He won the Soviet Championship nine times. In all, he scored 126 goals in 437 games in the Soviet league.
Until 1969 he studied electrical engineering at the Moscow School of Forestry and Technology, 1974, he received his doctorate.
Internationally
He was appointed to the team of the Soviet national ice hockey team early on. On February 26, 1965, he was in a game against Canada for the first time for the Sbornaja on the ice. His international career was crowned with the gold medals at the 1968 Olympic Winter Games and 1972. For the national team, he scored 15 goals in 129 internationals. The Ice Hockey World Championships twice he was with his team world champion (1968 and 1971). He was inducted into the "Russian Hockey Hall of Fame" in 1968. On April 18, 1972 he played his last international match.
Coaches and officials
In 1974 he became head of the Department of Physical Education and Sports of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, between 1975 and 1979 he was Chairman of the parallel Soviet Ice Hockey Federation. Between 1979 and 1981 he worked as a coach for SKA Leningrad.
In 1995 he became vice-president of the Association Golden Puck, who takes care of the organization of the largest Russian junior hockey tournament. In 2006 he was elected president of the association.