Alexei Mishin

Infobox Figure skater
title= Alexei Mishin


caption=Mishin with Plushenko in 2004.
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formerpartner= Tamara Moskvina
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Alexei Nikolaevich Mishin ( _ru. Алексей Николаевич Мишин, born March 8, 1941) is a Russian former figure skater and a current coach. Among Mishin's current and former students are Olympic champions Alexei Urmanov,Alexei Yagudin, and Evgeni Plushenko. Mishin has also runs summer seminars. Among the skaters who have attended those are Gheorghe Chiper and Stéphane Lambiel.

Biography

Mishin was spent his childhood in Tbilisi and afterwards moved to Leningrad with his family. He was always interested in mechanics,cite web |url= http://www.tv-park.ru/home/mfiles/article/?id=81 |title= Interview with Alexei Mishin |accessdate= 2008-02-04 |author=TV-park magazine |date= 2003-03-28|language= Russian] but at the age of 15 started skating. He was first coached by Nina Lepninskaya,cite web | url=http://olymp-sport.ru/abc_cyrillic/letter_%D0%BC/48348818.html | title=Biography at Olympic encyclopedia | language=Russian | accessdate=2008-02-04] , a pupil of Nikolai Panin. Mishin's parents encouraged him to skate.cite web | url=http://www.evgeniplushenko.net/coach.shtml | title=The skating philosophy of Alexei Nikolaevich Mishin | publisher = The Official Site for Evgeni Plushenko| accessdate=2008-09-06]

Mishin competed in singles within the Soviet Union and in 1966 he started competing internationally in pairs with Tamara Moskvina. Together they won the 1969 Soviet Figure Skating Championships defeating both the two-time Olympic Gold medalists Ludmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov, and the future champions Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov. They went on to place second at the 1969 World Figure Skating Championships. They won the silver medal (1968) and the Bronze medal (1969) at the European Championships. They later decided to retire to concentrate on a coaching career. Mishin was 28 at the time.

He comments: quote|"Me and Tamara Moskvina were famous in the USSR: people recognized us in the shops, we could buy a car... [That was difficult task due to the shortages of several goods. See "Economy of the Soviet Union".] But from the very start I looked forward to train other people and never regretted becoming a coach."

Mishin graduated from university with a degree in mechanics and started his dissertation on the mechanical base of figure skating technique. He started with coaching the junior ladies to success at national and international competitions, but later switched to men singles. Soon he became a well-known coach, due to his training methods that made the skaters learn jumps very quickly.cite web |url= http://www.skatetoday.com/articles0405/122604_2.htm |title= Russia's Mishin Is Dean of Coaches |accessdate= 2008-03-18 |author=Barry Mittan |date= 2004-12-26] In addition, he has authored several books on the biomechanics of figure skating and jumps which have been published in Russia, Germany, China, Japan and several other countries.

Mishin is married to Tatiana Mishina ("née" Oleneva), a former figure skater, and they coach together and separately. They have two sons.

He prefers to work with men's single skaters:

Mishin is a professor at the Lesgeft School of Sports Science and Physical Education and give seminars all over the world.cite web | url=http://figureskating.about.com/od/equipment/p/mishin.htm | title=Alexei Mishin and "Mishin's Magic Vest" | accessdate=2008-02-04]

Orders and rewards

*Order of Friendship of Peoples (1994)
*Meritorious Worker of Physical Education of Russian Federation (2002)
*Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR
*Honoured Coach of Sports of the USSR
*Honoured Coach of Sports of Russian Federation
*Commendation of the President of Russia (2002)
*Honorary title "Best in Saint Petersburg's Sports" (2006)

References

External links

* [http://www.mishincoachofchampions.com/ Official website of Alexey Mishin] en
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