Nikolai Panin won the gold medal in special figures in the 1908 Summer Olympics, became one of the oldest figure skating Olympic champions.
11 Facts About Nikolai Panin
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Nikolai Panin competed in figure skating under the name "Nikolay Panin", though most Russian sources now hyphenate his surname to "Panin-Kolomenkin".
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Nikolai Panin won the special figures event and competed, but did not finish, in the singles event.
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Nikolai Panin competed in the 1903 World Championships, placing second behind Salchow.
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Nikolai Panin was a prominent figure skating coach both before and after his win at the Olympics.
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Nikolai Panin even helped train his rivals during his own competitive career.
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Nikolai Panin wrote several biographical and reference books, the first of which appeared in 1910.
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Nikolai Panin was one of the first to be ranked in a sport classification system, a precursor to the Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR.
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Nikolai Panin died on 19 January 1956 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
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Nikolai Panin appears alongside the Olympic rings and flame, a laurel branch, and a winged ice skate.
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Nikolai Panin was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2009.