Igor Romishevsky

Igor Anatolievich Romishevsky (March 25, 1940 – September 28, 2013) was a Russian ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. At the 1968 Winter Olympics and 1972 Winter Olympics he won the gold medals with the Soviet team. He was gold medalist of the World Championships from 1969 to 1971 and silver medalist in 1972.

Igor Romishevsky
Igor Romishevsky (center) receives an honorary badge
Born (1940-03-25) 25 March 1940
Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR,
Soviet Union
Died September 28, 2013(2013-09-28) (aged 73)
Moscow, Russia
Position Defense
Played for HC SKA Kuybyshev (1960–1962)
CSKA Moscow (1962–1972)
National team  Soviet Union
Playing career 19601972
Medal record
Men's ice hockey
Representing Soviet Union Soviet Union
Winter Olympics
Gold medal – first place 1968 Grenoble Team
Gold medal – first place 1972 Sapporo Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1969 Sweden Team
Gold medal – first place 1970 Sweden Team
Gold medal – first place 1971 Switzerland Team
Silver medal – second place 1972 Czechoslovakia

Romishevsky was born in Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast. He graduated from Moscow Forest Engineering Institute 1969 and received his PhD degree in 1974.

During his professional hockey career he played with HC CSKA Moscow.

He was later inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1968.[1]

In 1974–1979 Romishevsky was a chair of Sports Department at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Since 1979 he was a head coach of SKA Leningrad for two seasons. In 1984–1990 Romishevsky was a head coach of SKA Novosibirsk.

He died at age 73, on 28 September 2013, in Moscow.

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