| Valeri Shiryayev | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
(1963-08-26) August 26, 1963 (age 61) Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | ||
| Weight | 187 lb (85 kg; 13 st 5 lb) | ||
| Position | Defence | ||
| Shot | Left | ||
| Played for | |||
| National team |
 Soviet Union and Ukraine | ||
| Playing career |
1980–2009 2013–2016 | ||
Valery Viktorovych Shiryaev (Ukrainian: Вале́рій Ві́кторович Ширя́єв; born 28 August 1963) is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for Sokil Kyiv and was named top defenceman in the Soviet League in 1990 and 1991. He won a gold medal in the 1989 World Ice Hockey Championships for the Soviet Union. Later, he played for Ukraine in several World Championships and at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He was named best defenceman at the 1995 C1 Pool World Championships.
He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989.
External links
- Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame bio
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
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- 1963 births
- EHC Biel players
- EV Zug players
- Genève-Servette HC players
- HC Davos players
- HC La Chaux-de-Fonds players
- Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Olympic ice hockey players for Ukraine
- Living people
- SC Bern players
- SCL Tigers players
- Ice hockey players from Kharkiv
- Soviet ice hockey defencemen
- Ukrainian ice hockey defencemen
- Ukrainian ice hockey coaches
- Sokil Kyiv players
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Ukrainian winter sports biography stubs
- European ice hockey biography stubs