Timur Trifonenkov

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• School Moscow Power Engineering Institute

Biographical Information

Timur Trifonenkov (also transliterated as Timur Triphonenkov) pitched for the USSR national team and Russian national team. He was a water polo star before switching to baseball.

Trifonenkov was part of Soviet teams that toured the US in 1988 and 1989. In 1989, he threw four shutout innings against the University of Maryland. He was on the USSR team in the 1990 Goodwill Games. In the 1993 European Championship, he was Russia's lone southpaw. He worked the 4th inning of their opening loss to Belgium, relieving Leonid Korneev and allowing a hit, two walks and two runs (one earned) while striking out one before Stepan Rubanov succeeded him. He pitched four games overall (6 IP, 1 H, 8 BB, 6 R, 6 ER, 6 K, 2 HB, 4 WP), finishing 4th on the six-man staff in ERA; he and Rubanov were their only hurlers not to get a decision. He tied Roberto Cabalisti, Christophe Gouilleux, Guillaume Coste, Roderick Hopkins and Joeri Loykens for 2nd in the event in games pitched, one behind Korneev.