Nikolai Pankin

Nikolai Pankin

Personal information
Born	2 January 1949 (1949-01-02) (age 75) Moscow, Soviet Union
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport	Breaststroke swimming
Event(s)	100 m, 200 m
Club	Lokomotiv Moscow
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m – 1:05.38 (1976) 200 m – 2:21.37 (1975)
Medal record Representing the Soviet Union Olympic Games 1968 Mexico City 100 m breaststroke World Championships (LC) 1975 Cali 200 m breaststroke European Championships (LC) 1970 Barcelona 100 m breaststroke 1970 Barcelona 200 m breaststroke 1970 Barcelona 4×100 m medley 1974 Vienna 100 m breaststroke 1974 Vienna 200 m breaststroke 1974 Vienna 4×100 m medley Summer Universiade 1970 Turin 100 m breaststroke 1970 Turin 200 m breaststroke 1973 Moscow 100 m breaststroke 1973 Moscow 200 m breaststroke

Nikolai Ivanovich Pankin (Template:Lang-ru; born 2 January 1949) is a Russian swimming coach and retired breaststroke swimmer. He competed at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke and 4 × 100 m medley relay. In 1968 he won a bronze medal in the 100 m and narrowly missed a bronze in the 200 m; he also swam the semifinal for the Soviet medley relay team that won a bronze medal. Pankin was less successful in 1972 and 1976, and finished close to the podium in the medley relay.

At the 1970 and 1974 European Championships, Pankin won a medal in each of the three event he competed. His last international medal was a bronze in the 200 m braststroke at the 1975 World Championships. During his career, Pankin set four world records, two in the 100 m (1:06.2 in 1968 and 1:05.8 in 1969) and two in the 200 m (2:26.5 and 2:25.4 in 1969). Domestically, he won 13 titles, in the 100 m (1969, 1971, 1974–75), 200 m (1969, 1971, 1972, 1974–75) and in the medley relay (1965, 1969, 1973 and 1975). He retired after the 1976 Olympics and then had a long career as a swimming coach in Moscow. His trainees included Dmitry Volkov.

See also

• World record progression 200 metres breaststroke