Nina Yeryomina

{{short description|Russian basketball player}}

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| image = Nina Yeryomina.jpg

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| birth_date = {{Birth date text|2 November 1933}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR

| death_date = {{Death-date and age|24 August 2016|2 November 1933}}

| death_place = Moscow Oblast, Russia

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport | Women's basketball }}

{{MedalCountry | {{URS}} }}

{{MedalCompetition | World Championships }}

{{MedalGold | 1959 Soviet Union | Team }}

{{MedalCompetition | European Championships }}

{{MedalGold | 1956 Czechoslovakia | Team }}

{{MedalGold | 1960 Bulgaria | Team }}

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Nina Alekseevna Yeryomina ({{langx|ru|Ни́на Алексе́евна Ерёмина}}; 2 November 1933 – 24 August 2016){{Cite web |url=http://bloknot.ru/obshhestvo/tri-sekundy-kotory-e-potryasli-mir-v-podmoskov-e-skonchalas-sportivny-j-kommentator-nina-eryomina-480013.html |title="Три секунды, которые потрясли мир": в Подмосковье скончалась спортивный комментатор Нина Ерёмина |trans-title= Three seconds that shocked the world: sports commentator Nina Yeryomina passed away in the Moscow Oblast|website=bloknot.ru |date=25 August 2016 |language=ru |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827230910/http://bloknot.ru/obshhestvo/tri-sekundy-kotory-e-potryasli-mir-v-podmoskov-e-skonchalas-sportivny-j-kommentator-nina-eryomina-480013.html |archive-date=27 August 2016 |url-status=live}} was a Russian basketball player and sports commentator. She was a 1959 world champion, two-time European champion, four-time Soviet Union champion and Merited Master of Sport of the USSR (1959).{{Cite web |url=http://ekskluziv-smi.ru/nina-eremina-sport-eto-zdorovo/ |title=Нина Ерёмина: спорт — это здорово |trans-title=Nina Yeryomina: Sports it's great |website=ekskluziv-smi.ru |date=October 2003 |language=ru |access-date=14 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216020454/http://ekskluziv-smi.ru/nina-eremina-sport-eto-zdorovo/ |archive-date=16 February 2016 |url-status=live}}

At the European Championships in 1960 in the three seconds before the end of the match against the Bulgarian national team, Eremina threw the ball, earning her the title of champion of the Soviet national team.

In 2000, she played herself in the movie The Envy of Gods.

She died on 24 August 2016 in Moscow Oblast.{{Cite web |url=http://ren.tv/novosti/2016-08-25/skonchalas-znamenitaya-chempionka-po-basketbolu-eks-vedushchaya-ren-tv-i |title=Скончалась знаменитая чемпионка по баскетболу, экс-ведущая РЕН ТВ и программы "Время" Нина Ерёмина |trans-title=Famous basketball champion, former presenter of REN TV and the Vremya program Nina Yeryomina passed away |website=ren.tv |date=25 August 2016 |language=ru |access-date=2 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107022838/http://ren.tv/novosti/2016-08-25/skonchalas-znamenitaya-chempionka-po-basketbolu-eks-vedushchaya-ren-tv-i |archive-date=7 November 2017 |url-status=live}}

== Awards==

• Order of the Badge of Honour
• Medal For Labour Valour
• Jubilee Medal In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
• Merited Master of Sport of the USSR