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{{short description|Russian speed skater}}
{{Infobox speed skater
| headercolor    = lightsteelblue
| full_name      = Pavel Georgievich Pegov
| birth_date     = {{birth-date and age|29 November 1956}}
| birth_place    = [[Moscow]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| show-medals    = yes
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalSport | Men's [[speed skating]] }}
{{MedalCountry | the {{URS}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[World Sprint Speed Skating Championships|World Sprint Championships]] }}
{{MedalSilver | 1983 Helsinki | [[World Sprint Speed Skating Championships for Men|Sprint]] }}
}}

'''Pavel Georgievich Pegov''' ({{langx|ru|Павел Георгиевич Пегов}}, born 29 November 1956 in [[Moscow]], [[Russian SFSR]]) is a former [[Speed skating|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)|Armed Forces sports society]]. He peaked in 1983 when he broke four [[world record]]s.

Skating for the [[Soviet Union]], Pavel Pegov finished second behind [[Japan]]ese skater [[Akira Kuroiwa]] at the [[World Sprint Speed Skating Championships|World Sprint Championships]] of 1983. In March that year, on the [[Medeo]] rink at [[Almaty|Alma-Ata]], he broke [[Yevgeny Kulikov]]'s two-year-old world record on the 500&nbsp;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&nbsp;m – setting a legendary world record time of 1:12.58. He was the first speed skater to skate the 1000&nbsp;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 (speed skater)|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 &ndash; the sprint combination [[samalog]]ue 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&nbsp;m at the [[1984 Winter Olympics]].<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference|df=dmy-all}}</ref> 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.

== Records ==

=== World records ===
Over the course of his career, Pegov held four [[List of speed skating records|world records]]:

{| class='wikitable'
|-
!Discipline!!Time!!Date!!Location
|-
|[[World record progression 500 m speed skating men|500 m]]||'''36.68'''||25 March 1983||align=left|{{flagicon|URS}} [[Medeo]]
|-
|[[World record progression 1000 m speed skating men|1000 m]]||'''1:12.58'''||25 March 1983||align=left|{{flagicon|URS}} Medeo
|-
|500 m||'''36.57'''||26 March 1983||align=left|{{flagicon|URS}} Medeo
|-
|[[Samalog|Sprint combination]]||'''146.955'''||26 March 1983||align=left|{{flagicon|URS}} Medeo
|}

<small>Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com<ref name=stats>
{{cite web|title=Pavel Pegov
|url=http://www.speedskatingstats.com/index.php?file=skater&code=1956112901
|publisher=SpeedSkatingStats.com
|accessdate=29 August 2012}}</ref></small>

===Personal records===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|-
!Event!!Result!!Date!!Venue
|-
|500 m||36.57||26 March 1983||align="left"|[[Medeo]]
|-
|1000 m||1:12.58||25 March 1983||align="left"|[[Medeo]]
|-
|1500 m||1:54.62||27 December 1983||align="left"|[[Medeo]]
|-
|3000 m||4:11.9{{figure space}} ||14 April 1977||align="left"|[[Medeo]]
|-
|5000 m||7:10.29||29 March 1979||align="left"|[[Medeo]]
|-
|10000 m||15:15.3{{figure space}} ||11 December 1976||align="left"|[[Medeo]]
|-
|[[Samalog|Big combination]]||169.046||29 December 1979||align="left"|[[Medeo]]
|}

Pegov has an [[Adelskalender (skating)|Adelskalender]] score of 163.570 points.

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{ISU speed skater|old_id=97216}}
* [http://www.speedskatingstats.com/index.php?file=skater&code=1956112901 Pavel Pegov] at SpeedSkatingStats.com
* [http://www.sskating.com/index.php?name=PEGOV&fname=Pavel&nat=URS&lm=m Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database]
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205184935/http://www.isu.org/vsite/vfile/page/fileurl/0,11040,4844-181536-198754-94643-0-file,00.pdf |title=Historical World Records from ''International Skating Union'' |date=dmy}}
* {{Olympics.com|pavel-pegov|oc_archive=20200129054730}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{InterSportStats|32165}}

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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Russian male speed skaters]]
[[Category:Soviet male speed skaters]]
[[Category:Olympic speed skaters for the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Speed skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics]]
[[Category:World record setters in speed skating]]
[[Category:World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists]]
[[Category:20th-century Russian sportsmen]]