Nina Statkevich

Nina Statkevich

File:Nina Statkevich 1970.jpg Nina Statkevich in 1970
Personal information
Born	(1944-02-16) 16 February 1944 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport	Speed skating
Club	Trud
Medal record Representing Soviet Union World Championships 1970 West-Allis Sprint 1971 Helsinki Allround 1974 Heerenveen Allround European Championships 1970 Heerenveen Allround 1971 Leningrad Allround 1972 Inzell Allround 1973 Brandbu Allround 1974 Medeo Allround

File:Nina Statkevich 1970b.jpg

Statkevich at the 1970 European championships

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 managed to win 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:

Championships	Gold medal	Silver medal	Bronze medal
Winter Olympics
World Allround	1971		1974
World Sprint		1970
European Allround	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:

Distance	Result	Date	Location
1,500 m	2:17.8	17 January 1970	Medeo
Mini combination	184.053	18 January 1970	Medeo

Personal bests:

• 500 m – 43.32 (1970)
• 1000 m – 1:28.1 (1973)
• 1500 m – 2:16.48 (1973)
• 3000 m – 4:43.0 (1973)
• 5000 m – 8:36.5 (1976)

External links

• Nina Statkevich at SkateResults.com