Alexei Mishin

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Alexei Mishin

Mishin in 2011
Personal information
Country represented  Russia ( Soviet Union)
Born 8 March 1941 (1941-03-08) (age 70)
Sevastopol
Former partner Tamara Moskvina
Former coach Igor Moskvin
Maya Belenkaya[1]
Retired 1969

Alexei Nikolaevich Mishin (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Ми́шин, born 8 March 1941) is a Russian figure skating coach and former pair skater. With partner Tamara Moskvina, he was the 1969 World silver medalist and USSR national champion.

Mishin is based in Saint Petersburg at Yubileyny Sports Palace. His current and former students include Olympic champions Alexei Urmanov, Alexei Yagudin, and Evgeni Plushenko. Mishin also runs summer seminars. Among the skaters who have attended those are Stéphane Lambiel and Sarah Meier.[2] He has authored several books on the biomechanics of figure skating.[2]

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[edit] Early years

Mishin spent his childhood in Tbilisi and afterwards moved to Leningrad with his family. He was always interested in mechanics.[3] He started skating relatively late, at age 15, after his parents brought him to the rink.[2] His father skated with him to get him interested in the activity.[2][4] Mishin was first coached by Nina Lepninskaya,[5] a pupil of Nikolai Panin.

[edit] Competitive career

Mishin competed in singles within the Soviet Union and won the bronze medal at the 1964 Soviet Championships. In 1966, he took up pair skating as an experiment, teaming up with his first and only partner, Tamara Moskvina.[2] They were coached by Igor Moskvin.[6] Together they won the 1969 Soviet Championships, defeating both the two-time Olympic champions Ludmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov, and the future champions Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov. They went on to win silver at the 1969 World Championships. At the European Championships, they won silver in 1968 and bronze in 1969. Moskvina took time off to have a baby and they decided to retire to concentrate on their coaching careers, with Mishin focusing on coaching singles while Moskvina focused on pairs. Mishin was 28 when he retired from competition and he said he was glad to start coaching when he was young.[2]

He comments:

I and Tamara Moskvina were famous in the USSR: people recognized us in the shops, we could buy a car...[7] But from the very start I looked forward to training other people and never regretted becoming a coach.[3]

[edit] Coaching career

Mishin with pupil Elizaveta Tuktamysheva in 2010

Mishin graduated from university with a degree in mechanics and his dissertation focused on the mechanical base of figure skating technique.[2] He started with coaching junior ladies to success at national and international competitions, but later switched to men's singles.[4] He rapidly became a well-known coach, due to his training methods that made the skaters learn jumps very quickly.[2] 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.[2]

Mishin prefers to work with men's single skaters:

Coaching women is dangerous — there's always probability that the story of Pygmalion will recur periodically. My wife was a mere pupil at first. See, what has eventually happened?[3]

Mishin has stated that women are "delicate material" and "better one man of average talent than two super-talented ladies".[8] Nevertheless, one of his current students is ladies' single skater Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, a three-time Russian senior national medalist. Mishin was criticized for making Tuktamysheva participate in the senior Russian Championships at only 12 years of age, but he responded that "one with sustainable future won't break", and if a person cannot do triple lutz at 12 he will never be able to do it.[8] Mishin also coaches Artur Gachinski, the 2011 World bronze medalist.

Mishin is a professor at the Lesgaft School of Sports Science and Physical Education and gives seminars all over the world.[2][9] He is taking part in the development of a figure skating device which measures the number of revolutions in jumps when attached to the skater's body. According to Mishin, this device has already been patented.[8]

Mishin is based at Saint Petersburg's Yubileyny Sports Palace for most of the season but has summer training camps in various locations, such as Jaca (Spain), Tartu (Estonia), and Pinzolo (Italy) for the 2011–2012 season.[10][2]

[edit] Personal life

Mishin is married to Tatiana Mishina[2] (née Oleneva), a former figure skater, and they coach together and separately. They have two sons, Andrei, born in 1977, and Nikolai, born in 1983.

[edit] Competitive highlights

Pairs with Tamara Moskvina

Event 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69
Winter Olympics 5th
World Championships 6th 4th 2nd
European Championships 6th 2nd 3rd
Soviet Championships 3rd 2nd 2nd 1st
Prize of Moscow News 1st 1st
Winter Universiade 3rd

Men's singles

Event 1964
Soviet Championships 3rd

[edit] Orders and rewards

[edit] Publications

  • Mishin, Alexei (1976) (in Russian). Figure skating jumps. Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. pp. 104. 
  • Mishin, Alexei (1979) (in Russian). School in figure skating. Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. pp. 175. 
  • Mishin, Alexei (1981) (in Russian). Biomechanics of figure skaters' moves. Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. pp. 144. 
  • Mishin, Alexei, ed. (1985) (in Russian). Figure skating: A study manual for sports colleges. Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. pp. 271. 

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Легендарная фигуристка М.П.Беленькая" (in Russian). Ledyanaya Fabrika. 2009. http://www.ice-factory.ru/belenkaya.html. Retrieved 13 September 2010. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Mittan, Barry (December 26, 2004). "Russia’s Mishin Is Dean of Coaches". Skate Today. Archived from the original on November 10, 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skatetoday.com%2F2004%2F12%2F26%2Frussias-mishin-is-dean-of-coaches%2F&date=2011-11-10. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  3. ^ a b c "Interview with Alexei Mishin" (in Russian). TV Park magazine. 2003-03-28. Archived from the original on November 9, 2005. http://web.archive.org/web/20051109013712/http://www.tv-park.ru/home/mfiles/article/?id=81. 
  4. ^ a b "The skating philosophy of Alexei Nikolaevich Mishin". The Official Site for Evgeni Plushenko. Archived from the original on 2008-05-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20080530043246/http://www.evgeniplushenko.net/coach.shtml. Retrieved 2008-09-06. 
  5. ^ "Biography at Olympic encyclopedia" (in Russian). http://olymp-sport.ru/abc_cyrillic/letter_%D0%BC/48348818.html. Retrieved 2008-02-04. 
  6. ^ Vaytsekhovskaya, Elena (August 25, 2009). "Igor Moskvin: I have never thought that wife and me are rivals." (in Russian). Sport Express. http://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/2009-08-25/8_1/. Retrieved 4 July 2010. 
  7. ^ Buying a car in the Soviet Union was difficult due to the shortages of several goods. See Economy of the Soviet Union.
  8. ^ a b c Mironova, Valeria (2009-03-25). "A revival will begin after Vancouver Olympics" (in Russian). Kommersant. http://www.kommersant.ru/doc-y.aspx?DocsID=1143473. Retrieved 2009-03-26. 
  9. ^ "Alexei Mishin and "Mishin's Magic Vest"". http://figureskating.about.com/od/equipment/p/mishin.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-04. 
  10. ^ Remmel, Ia (November 4, 2011). "The story behind success: Mishin'’s and Gachinski’'s season preparation". Absolute Skating. http://absoluteskating.com/index.php?cat=articles&id=2011mishingachinski. Retrieved November 8, 2011. 

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