Nina Yeryomina

Nina Alekseevna Yeryomina (Ни́на Алексе́евна Ерёмина; 2 November 1933 – 24 August 2016) was a Russian basketball player and sports commentator. She was a 1959 world champion, two-time European champion, four-time Soviet Union champion and Merited Master of Sport of the USSR (1959).

At the European Championships in 1960 in the three seconds before the end of the match against the Bulgarian national team, Eremina threw the ball, earning her the title of champion of the Soviet national team.

In 2000, she played herself in the movie The Envy of Gods.

She died on 24 August 2016 in Moscow Oblast.

Awards

 * Order of the Badge of Honour
 * Medal For Labour Valour
 * Jubilee Medal In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
 * Merited Master of Sport of the USSR