Position: | Right Wing |
Shoots: | Left |
Height Ft: | 5 |
Height In: | 11 |
Weight Lb: | 170 |
Played For: | Spartak Moscow Innsbrucker EV EC Salzburg |
Ntl Team: | URS |
Birth Date: | April 20, 1951 |
Birth Place: | Solnechnogorsk, Soviet Union |
Career Start: | 1969 |
Career End: | 1988 |
Viktor Ivanovich Shalimov (Russian: Виктор Иванович Шалимов; born April 20, 1951, in Solnechnogorsk, Soviet Union) is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC Spartak Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1975. He scored 66 goals in his 126 career games for the Soviet national team. He played in the 1976 Winter Olympics and was one of the top scorers of the tournament. He spent final seasons of his career in Austria, making him one of the first Soviet ice-hockey players to get to play abroad.