Pyotr Skripchenkov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pyotr Skripchenkov

swimmer

Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1926

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Pyotr Grigoryevich Skripchenkov (Russian: ???? ??????????? ???????????; 14 February 1926 – 2010) competed in the period when butterfly was being split from breaststroke as a separate swimming style, and Skripchenkov was one of the first Soviet swimmers who mastered the butterfly.
In 1952, he took part in the Summer Olympics in the 200 m breaststroke, when butterfly was not an Olympic event yet.
In 1953–1954 he swam the butterfly leg in the 4 × 100 m medley relay and helped the Soviet team to set three world records.
Between 1949 and 1954 he won two national titles and set five national records.
He later competed in the masters category, mostly in the 50 m butterfly event, in which he won the world championships in 1990 and several national titles.During World War II, he enlisted to the Soviet Army in 1944 and went up to Berlin with the infantry.