Aleksei Grishin

Aleksei Grishin
Grishin on a 2010 Belarusian stamp
Personal information
Born 18 June 1979 (1979-06-18) (age 39)
Minsk, Belarus
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport Freestyle skiing
Club RTsFVS Minsk oblast
Medal record
Men's freestyle skiing
Representing  Belarus
Olympic Games
2010 Vancouver Aerials
2002 Salt Lake City Aerials
World Championships
2001 Whistler Aerials
2003 Deer Valley Aerials
2005 Ruka Aerials

Aleksei Gennadyevich Grishin (Belarusian: Аляксей Генадзьевіч Грышын; Russian: Алексей Геннадьевич Гришин; born 18 June 1979) is a Belarusian freestyle skier who competed at five consecutive Olympics from 1998 to 2014. He won Belarus' only medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics, a bronze in aerials.[1] In 2010, he won the first ever winter Olympic gold medal for his country, again in the aerials. He finished fourth in 2006 and eighths in 1998.[2] He was the Olympic flag bearer for Belarus at the 2014 Games.

Grishin at the 2010 Olympics

References

  1. ↑ National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus Archived 17 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine., retrieved 20 January 2007.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Aleksey Grishin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
Olympic Games
Preceded by
Oleg Antonenko		 Flagbearer for  Belarus
Sochi 2014		 Succeeded by
Incumbent


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