Nina Statkevich Explained

Nina Statkevich
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Birth Date:16 February 1944
Birth Place:Leningrad, Soviet Union
Height:1.65m (05.41feet)
Weight:61kg (134lb)
Sport:Speed skating
Club:VSS Trud Leningrad
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Nina Andreyevna Statkevich (Russian: Нина Андреевна Статкевич; born 16 February 1944) is a former speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union.

Nina Statkevich trained at VSS Trud in Leningrad. She won many titles  - she was World Allround Champion, European Allround Champion twice, Soviet Allround Champion four times, and Soviet Sprint Champion. She also competed at the Winter Olympics, but never won an Olympic medal, a fifth place at the 1972 Olympics being her best result (on both 1000 m and 3000 m).

Medals

An overview of medals won by Statkevich during important championships she participated in, listing the years in which she won each:

Championshipsalign=center bgcolor=gold Gold medal align=center bgcolor=silver Silver medal align=center bgcolor=cc9966 Bronze medal
1971 1974
1970
1970
1971
1972
1974
1973
Soviet Allround 1970
1971
1972
1974
1973
Soviet Sprint 1970 1973

World records

Over the course of her career, Statkevich skated 2 world records on the then still natural ice of Medeo:

DistanceResultDateLocation
1,500 m2:17.817 January 1970Medeo
Mini combination184.05318 January 1970Medeo

Personal bests:

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