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Born | Almaty, Kazakhstan | 24 November 2002|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Speed skating | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100m, 500m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yevgeniy Koshkin (born 24 November 2002) is a speed skater from Kazakhstan. He obtained a silver medal at the 100 meter race of the 2025 Asian Winter Games and won two 500 meter races in the 2025 World Cup, one in Tomaszow and one in Heerenveen.
As a child, Koshkin practiced ice hockey in his home town Almaty, which would explain his exceptional speed at the first 100 meters. [1] At the age of 14, Koshkin took up speed skating. Two years later he was national junior champion.
His international debut was at the 2019 Junior World Cup in Enschede. 2025 was his breakthrough year with a silver medal at the Asian Winter Games and a win at the 5th stage of the World Cup in Poland. [2] [3] At the 6th stage of the 2024-25 World Cup in Heerenveen he won a gold and a bronze medal at the 500 meters. [4]