Ivan Tregubov
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Ivan Sergeyevich Tregubov was an ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 defenceman
Defenceman (ice hockey)
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 in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
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 in the 1950s and 1960s.

He was born in the Mordovian ASSR of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Soviet Union
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.

Tregubov played for HC CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow is a Russian ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. It is referred to in the West as "Central Red Army" or the "Red Army Team" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army, popularly known as the Red Army...

 from 1951–62, SKA Kuibyshev from 1962–64, and Khimik Voskresensk in 1964-65. He was named to the Soviet all-star team four consecutive years beginning in 1955. He was inducted into the USSR Hall of Fame in 1956.

Tregubov played 100 games for the national team. He played in six IIHF World Championships, being named the best defenceman in 1958 and 1961. He won the 1956 Olympic and World Championship gold in 1956, as well as World Championship silver four times and bronze once.

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