Nina Statkevich

Nina Statkevich in 1970
Personal information
Born	(1944-02-16) 16 February 1944 (age 79) Leningrad, Soviet Union
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport	Speed skating
Club	VSS Trud Leningrad
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

Nina Andreyevna Statkevich (Russian: Нина Андреевна Статкевич; born 16 February 1944) is a former speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union.^[1]

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 won 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:

World records

Over the course of her career, Statkevich skated 2 world records on the then still natural ice of Medeo:

Personal bests:^[1]

• 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)