Pavel Pegov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Russian speed skater
Date of Birth: 29-Nov-1956
Place of Birth: Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia
Profession: speed skater
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Pavel Pegov
- Pavel Georgievich Pegov (Russian: ????? ?????????? ?????, born 29 November 1956 in Moscow, Russian SFSR) is a former speed skater who specialised in the shorter 500 metres and 1000 metres distances.
- He studied at the East Siberian Technological Institute and trained with Nina Bobrova, and later at the Armed Forces sports society.
- He peaked in 1983 when he broke four world records.
- Skating for the Soviet Union, Pavel Pegov finished second behind Japanese skater Akira Kuroiwa at the World Sprint Championships of 1983.
- In March that year, on the Medeo rink at Alma-Ata, he broke Yevgeny Kulikov's two-year-old world record on the 500 m.
- On the 25th of that month, he clocked 36.68, and a day later he sharpened the record to 36.57.
- That same weekend, he raced a perfect 1000 m – setting a legendary world record time of 1:12.58.
- He was the first speed skater to skate the 1000 m in less than 1 minute and 13 seconds and, although Igor Zhelezovski managed to equal this time six years later, Pegov's world record would stand undefeated for over ten years; Kevin Scott clocked 1:12.54 in Calgary 19 December 1993.
- His four Medeo races of 36.68, 1:12.58, 36.57, and 1:14.83 gave him another world record – the sprint combination samalogue point sum 146.955.
- This record lasted until Igor Zhelezovski very narrowly improved it to 146.945 in Heerenveen in February 1989.
- Pegov never regained his eminence after 1983, finishing only 13th in the 1000 m at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
- A few weeks after the Olympics, he finished second, behind Sergey Khlebnikov, at the Soviet Sprint Championships.
- Pegov retired as an elite speed skater in 1985.
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