Nikolai Pankin

{{Short description|Russian swimmer and swimming coach}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}}

{{Infobox swimmer

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| image = Nikolai Pankin 1972.jpg

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1949|1|2|df=y}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|10|13|1949|1|2|df=y}}

| death_place = Murom, Russia

| height = 1.78 m

| weight = 74 kg

| club = Lokomotiv Moscow

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| show-medals = yes

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{{MedalCountry|the {{URS}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalBronze|1968 Mexico City|100 m breaststroke }}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships (LC)}}

{{MedalBronze | 1975 Cali | 200 m breaststroke}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Championships (LC)}}

{{MedalGold| 1970 Barcelona | 100 m breaststroke}}

{{MedalSilver| 1970 Barcelona | 200 m breaststroke}}

{{MedalBronze| 1970 Barcelona | 4×100 m medley}}

{{MedalGold| 1974 Vienna | 100 m breaststroke}}

{{MedalSilver| 1974 Vienna | 200 m breaststroke}}

{{MedalBronze| 1974 Vienna | 4×100 m medley}}

{{MedalCompetition|Summer Universiade}}

{{MedalGold | 1970 Turin | 100 m breaststroke}}

{{MedalSilver | 1970 Turin | 200 m breaststroke}}

{{MedalGold | 1973 Moscow | 100 m breaststroke}}

{{MedalGold | 1973 Moscow | 200 m breaststroke}}

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Nikolai Ivanovich Pankin ({{langx|ru|Николай Иванович Панкин}}; born 2 January 1949 – 13 October 2018) was a Russian breaststroke swimmer and swimming coach.[https://www.mk.ru/sport/2018/10/13/ushel-iz-zhizni-prizer-olimpiady68-v-plavanii-nikolay-pankin.html Ушел из жизни призер Олимпиады-68 в плавании Николай Панкин] {{in lang|ru}} He competed at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke and 4 × 100 m medley relay. In 1968 he won a bronze medal in the 100 m and narrowly missed a bronze in the 200 m; he also swam the semifinal for the Soviet medley relay team that won a bronze medal. Pankin was less successful in 1972 and 1976, and finished close to the podium in the medley relay.

At the 1970 and 1974 European Championships, Pankin won a medal in each of the three events he competed. His last international medal was a bronze in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1975 World Championships. During his career, Pankin set four world records, two in the 100 m (1:06.2 in 1968 and 1:05.8 in 1969) and two in the 200 m (2:26.5 and 2:25.4 in 1969). Domestically, he won 13 titles, in the 100 m (1969, 1971, 1974–75), 200 m (1969, 1971, 1972, 1974–75) and in the medley relay (1965, 1969, 1973 and 1975). He retired after the 1976 Olympics and then had a long career as a swimming coach in Moscow. His trainees included Dmitry Volkov.