Yuri Lyapkin
{{short description|Russian ice hockey player (born 1945)}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
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| birth_name = Yuri Evgenievich Lyapkin
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|1|21|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Balashikha, Soviet Union
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 0
| weight_lb = 192
| position = Defence
| shoots = Right
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| played_for = Khimik Voskresensk
HC Spartak Moscow
Oji Seishi
| ntl_team = Soviet Union
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| career_start = 1964
| career_end = 1982
| show-medals = yes
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{{MedalSport | Men's ice hockey }}
{{MedalCountry | {{URS}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}
{{MedalGold | 1976 Innsbruck | Team }}
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Yuri Evgenievich Lyapkin (born January 21, 1945) is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman.{{cite web |url=http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?ID=376 |title=Lyapkin, Yuri |publisher=Jewsinsports.org |access-date=October 18, 2011}}
Biography
Lyapkin is Jewish. He played in the Soviet Hockey League for Khimik Voskresensk and HC Spartak Moscow. He won a gold medal playing for the undefeated Soviet Union team at the 1976 Olympics.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0KzECrIQDQC&q=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+lyapkin&pg=PA254 |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: the clash between sport and politics: with a complete review of Jewish Olympic medallists |author=Paul Taylor |publisher=Sussex Academic Press |date=2004 |isbn=9781903900888 |access-date=October 18, 2011}}{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Yury Lyapkin}} He also won world championships with the Soviet team in 1970/71, 72/73, 73/74, and 74/75, and a silver medal in 75/76.[http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=190723 Yuri Lyapkin - Eliteprospects.com]
He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1973. He was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2020.{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/Yuri-Lyapkin.htm |title=Yuri Lyapkin |publisher=Jewishsports.net |date=1945-01-21 |access-date=2020-01-30}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{ice hockey stats}}
- [http://www.chidlovski.com/personal/1954/02hhof.htm Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame bio]
- {{Olympedia|91981|Yury Lyapkin}}
- {{Olympic Channel|yury-lyapkin|Yury Lyapkin}}
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Category:HC Khimik Voskresensk players
Category:HC Spartak Moscow players
Category:Ice hockey players at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Category:Olympic ice hockey players for the Soviet Union
Category:Olympic medalists in ice hockey
Category:Sportspeople from Balashikha
Category:Soviet ice hockey defencemen
Category:Soviet expatriate ice hockey players
Category:International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
Category:Ice hockey people from Moscow Oblast
Category:Soviet expatriates in Japan
Category:Jewish Russian sportspeople
Category:Competitors at the 1970 Winter Universiade
Category:Winter World University Games medalists in ice hockey
Category:FISU World University Games silver medalists for the Soviet Union
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