Nina Yeryomina Explained

Birth Date:	2 November 1933
Birth Place:	Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Death Place:	Moscow Oblast, Russia

Nina Alekseevna Yeryomina (Russian: Ни́на Алексе́евна Ерёмина; 2 November 1933 – 24 August 2016)^[1] was a Russian basketball player and sports commentator. She was a 1959 world champion, two-time European champion, four-time Soviet Union champion and Merited Master of Sport of the USSR (1959).^[2]

At the European Championships in 1960 in the three seconds before the end of the match against the Bulgarian national team, Eremina threw the ball, earning her the title of champion of the Soviet national team.

In 2000, she played herself in the movie The Envy of Gods.

She died on 24 August 2016 in Moscow Oblast.^[3]

Awards

• Order of the Badge of Honour
• Medal For Labour Valour
• Jubilee Medal In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
• Merited Master of Sport of the USSR

External links

• Два символа жизни Нины Ерёминой, sport.rian.ru
• Нина Ерёмина: Мы не имели права на второе место (We did not have a right to place second) — SportBox.ru, news.sportbox.ru
• «Когда звучал мой первый репортаж, я под стол залезла». Судьба первой женщины-комментатора, sports.ru

Notes and References

1. Web site: "Три секунды, которые потрясли мир": в Подмосковье скончалась спортивный комментатор Нина Ерёмина . Three seconds that shocked the world: sports commentator Nina Yeryomina passed away in the Moscow Oblast. bloknot.ru . 25 August 2016 . ru . https://web.archive.org/web/20160827230910/http://bloknot.ru/obshhestvo/tri-sekundy-kotory-e-potryasli-mir-v-podmoskov-e-skonchalas-sportivny-j-kommentator-nina-eryomina-480013.html . 27 August 2016 . live.
2. Web site: Нина Ерёмина: спорт — это здорово . Nina Yeryomina: Sports it's great . ekskluziv-smi.ru . October 2003 . ru . 14 October 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160216020454/http://ekskluziv-smi.ru/nina-eremina-sport-eto-zdorovo/ . 16 February 2016 . live.
3. Web site: Скончалась знаменитая чемпионка по баскетболу, экс-ведущая РЕН ТВ и программы "Время" Нина Ерёмина . Famous basketball champion, former presenter of REN TV and the Vremya program Nina Yeryomina passed away . ren.tv . 25 August 2016 . ru . 2 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171107022838/http://ren.tv/novosti/2016-08-25/skonchalas-znamenitaya-chempionka-po-basketbolu-eks-vedushchaya-ren-tv-i . 7 November 2017 . live.