Nikolay Gulyayev
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| Nationality | Russian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1 January 1966 (age 51) Vologda, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 88 kg (194 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Speed skating | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 500 m: 36.84 (1989) 1000 m: 1:13.03 (1988) 1500 m: 1:52.70 (1988) 3000 m: 4:11.2 (1987) 5000 m: 6:51.28 (1987) 10 000 m: 14:28.45 (1987) |
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Nikolay Alekseyevich Gulyayev (Russian: Николай Алексеевич Гуляев, born 1 January 1966) is a former speed skater, considered among the world's best in the 1980s.
Nikolay Gulyayev trained at Armed Forces sports society in Moscow. Skating for the Soviet Union, his first international appearance was in 1986 at the European Allround Championships in Oslo. Gulyayev debuted with a 5th place in the tournament won by Dutchman Hein Vergeer and impressed with a 2nd-place finish on the 1,500 metres.
In 1987, he was at the top of the international skating field. In January, he won the European Championships in Trondheim, in front of Michael Hadschieff and Hein Vergeer. Gulyayev held his form until the World Allround Championships in Heerenveen. At these championships, the first to be held in a climate-controlled indoor stadium, he was the first to achieve an overall point total (samalog) below 160.000 points, finishing before fellow countryman Oleg Bozhev and the Austrian Michael Hadschieff. His samalog World Record of 159.356 stood for 4 years before being broken by Johann Olav Koss at the same venue. In Heerenveen he also set the 1,500 metres world record at 1:52.70. For his achievements that year, he received the Oscar Mathisen Award.
His performance at the World Championships in Heerenveen put him in first place on the Adelskalender, the all-time allround speedskating ranking, displacing his compatriot Viktor Shasherin, until, at the 1988 Winter Olympics, Austrian skater Michael Hadschieff took over first place, followed a few days later by Eric Flaim from the United States. Gulyayev was number one in the Adelskalender for 364 days and in the top 10 from February 1987 until January 1994.
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