1. Aleksei Gennadyevich Grishin is a Belarusian freestyle skier who competed at five consecutive Olympics from 1998 to 2014.
34 Facts About Aleksei Grishin
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Aleksei Grishin won Belarus' only medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics, a bronze in aerials.
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Aleksei Grishin finished fourth in 2006 and eighth in 1998.
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Aleksei Grishin was the Olympic flag bearer for Belarus at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Games.
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Aleksei Grishin began his freestyle skiing career at the age of eight after his mother saw a newspaper advertisement recruiting skiers for the sport.
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Aleksei Grishin made his debut at the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup in the following year, finishing fourth at the Piancavallo event in Italy in December 1997.
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Aleksei Grishin scored 217.84 points after two jumps, placing ninth in the competition, and qualified for the finals.
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Aleksei Grishin finished with a silver medal again in the World Cup circuit at Meiringen-Hasliberg in Switzerland in March 1998.
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Aleksei Grishin placed fourth and second at Mont Tremblant, Canada, followed by first and third place at Lake Placid in January 2002.
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Aleksei Grishin finished second in the standings after six World Cup events.
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Aleksei Grishin placed third overall in the finals, earning him a bronze medal.
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Aleksei Grishin was chosen to be the flag bearer for Belarus at the closing ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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Aleksei Grishin finished no higher than ninth place in the four subsequent races in January 2003.
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Aleksei Grishin attempted to defend his World Ski Championships title at the 2003 event in Deer Valley, falling just under two points behind Dimitri Arkhipov of Russia.
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Aleksei Grishin finished fifth in the aerials standings after nine races.
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Aleksei Grishin finished with a 27th, 20th, and 15th place in the three World Cup races leading up to the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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Aleksei Grishin finished this skiing season with a second place at the event in Davos, Switzerland, but did not participate in the final event held two weeks later at Apex Mountain Resort, Canada.
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Aleksei Grishin finished 10th in the standings after 11 events.
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Aleksei Grishin finished 15th at the 2007 Freestyle World Ski Championships competition.
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Aleksei Grishin's final standing, after six races, was fifth place.
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Aleksei Grishin placed 16th place at the 2009 Freestyle World Ski Championships.
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Aleksei Grishin reached the podium only once in the World Cup races leading up to the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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Aleksei Grishin participated at the Nor-Am Cup, finishing in tenth and third place.
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Aleksei Grishin scored 127.83 points in his second jump for a total score of 248.41 points.
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Aleksei Grishin beat the runner-up by 1.2 points in the finals, becoming the first athlete to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics for Belarus.
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Aleksei Grishin did not appear in the World Ski Championships in 2011.
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Aleksei Grishin finished in 15th place in the aerials standing.
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Aleksei Grishin finished 13th and did not qualify for the finals.
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Aleksei Grishin was the flag bearer for Belarus for the opening ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
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In July 2019, Aleksei Grishin decided to put his 2010 Winter Olympics gold medal up for auction to raise money for a close individual who required a serious medical surgery.
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Aleksei Grishin sold his 2002 Winter Olympics bronze medal, which garnered US$22,778.
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Aleksei Grishin studied at Belarusian State University of Physical Training in Minsk.
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Aleksei Grishin was approved as a coach by the government in 1995.
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Aleksei Grishin was awarded with the International Champion title in 1998 after competing in the World Cup.