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| Born | 18 June 1979 (age 45) Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR, now Belarus[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1995–2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Freestyle skiing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | RTsFVS Minsk oblast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Aleksei Gennadyevich Grishin (Belarusian: Аляксей Генадзьевіч Грышын; Russian: Алексей Геннадьевич Гришин; born 18 June 1979) is a Belarusian freestyle skier who competed at five consecutive Olympics from 1998 to 2014. He won Belarus' only medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics, a bronze in aerials.[2][3] In 2010, he won the first ever Winter Olympics gold medal for his country, again in the aerials. He finished fourth in 2006 and eighth in 1998.[4] He was the Olympic flag bearer for Belarus at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Games.
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- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Aleksey Grishin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.