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Witt is a four-time World Champion (1984, 1985, 1987, 1988) and two-time World silver medalist (1982, 1986). She won six consecutive European Championships (1983–1988), a feat equalled only by Henie among female skaters. Between 1984 and 1988, Witt won ten gold medals from eleven major international events, making her one of the most ...
Women's singles: Coach: Sofia Fedchenko: Skating club: Triumph Academy ... 2025 Omsk: Singles Alina Dmitrievna Gorbacheva is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2025 ...
Katarina Witt from East Germany won the 1988 women's singles gold medal, becoming the second female figure skater in history to win back-to-back Olympic titles. Yuna Kim of South Korea won the women's singles event in 2010 with world record scores in the short program, free skating, and combined total.
The defending champion from South Korea won the short program Wednesday Almost. Then she showed she has just enough to remain the favorite to defend her Olympic figure skating title.
The following is a list of notable figure skaters who have competed in women's singles.These are skaters who have won a gold, silver, or bronze medal at at least one of the following competitions: the Winter Olympics, the World Figure Skating Championships, the European Figure Skating Championships, the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, the ...
Trusova was born on 23 June 2004 in Ryazan. [15] She has two younger brothers, Egor and Ivan. [16] Trusova is a dog lover and owns seven of them: a chihuahua named Tina, who often accompanied her to competitions; [17] a husky named Jack; a miniature royal poodle named Lana, which she received at Rostelecom Cup for winning the 2019 World Junior Figure Skating Championships and landing her first ...
With her husband Aleksandr Gorshkov, she was the 1976 Olympic champion, one of the oldest female figure skating Olympic champions. They are six-time World Champions (1970–74, 1976), as well as six-time European champions (1970–71, 1973–76), which makes them the most decorated of all-time at both events in the pair discipline.
Figure skating historian James R. Hines called their free dance programs "unconventional and avant garde", and stated that they were "equally strong in the more conservative compulsory dances". Hines compared Bestemianova and Bukin to British ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean , saying that they were "less suave" and "more energetic".