Alexei Grishin

Aleksei Grishin

Grishin on a 2010 Belarusian stamp
Personal information
Born	18 June 1979 (1979-06-18) (age 37) Minsk, Belarus
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Sport	Freestyle skiing
Club	RTsFVS Minsk oblast
Medal record Men's freestyle skiing Representing  Belarus Olympic Games 2010 Vancouver Aerials 2002 Salt Lake City Aerials World Championships 2001 Whistler Aerials 2003 Deer Valley Aerials 2005 Ruka Aerials

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. In 2010, he won the first ever winter Olympic gold medal for his country, again in the aerials. He finished fourth in 2006 and eighths in 1998. He was the Olympic flag bearer for Belarus at the 2014 Games.