Sport Speed skating Weight 83 kg Name Vladimir Grigorev Spouse Svetlana Grigorev | Role Short Track Speed Skater Parents Victor Grigorev Height 1.78 m Children Yegor Grigorev | |
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Born 8 August 1982 (age 41) ( 1982-08-08 ) Shostka, Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union Country Ukraine (until 2007) /
Russia (since 2007) Similar People Viktor Ahn, Semion Elistratov, Ruslan Zakharov, Sjinkie Knegt, Wu Dajing | ||
Viktor Ahn and Vladimir Grigorev Sochi 2014
Vladimir Viktorovich Grigorev (Russian: Владимир Викторович Григорьев; born 8 August 1982) is a Russian short track speed skater. He previously competed for Ukraine. Grigorev is from Sumy in Ukraine.
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Career
Grigorev competed for Ukraine in short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, and the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics.
He did not compete at the 2010 Olympics, and, in 2007, switched allegiance to Russia, due to a shortage of skating facilities in Ukraine.
He qualified to compete for Russia at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. On 15 February 2014, he won a silver medal in the 1000m short track speedskating event, as part of the first Russian 1-2 finish in short track, with Viktor Ahn winning gold. With his silver, at 31 years and 191 days of age, Grigorev became the oldest man to win a short track Olympic medal. On 21 February 2014, he won a gold medal in 5000m-relay as part of Team Russia.