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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in ...
The 2022 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Montpellier, France, from March 21–27, 2022. [1] Figure skaters competed for the title of world champion in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The competition was used to determine the entry quotas for each federation at the 2023 World Championships.
The World Figure Skating Championships have been cancelled 16 times in the competition's history: from 1915 through 1921 due to World War I; [5] from 1940 through 1946 due to World War II; [5] in 1961 as a result of the loss of the entire U.S. Figure Skating team in the crash of Sabena Flight 548; [9] [10] and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coaches Naumov and Shishkova, originally from Russia, were the 1994 world pairs skating champions. They leave a 23-year-old son, Maxim, another promising talent from Boston who finished fourth in ...
The Washington Figure Skating Club, of which Malinin is a member, wrote in a statement that it is "devastated" by the news. "More information will be posted when appropriate," the club said.
At the 2022 World Championships, Loena Hendrickx was the first Belgian women's singles skater to win a medal (a silver medal) at an ISU Championship event. [198] At the 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia, Hendrickx also won Belgium's first Grand Prix medal (a bronze medal) in women's singles. [199] At the 2022 World Junior Championships, Karina Safina ...
"What you learn in skating is you fall down constantly, but you get up," 1956 Olympic champion and U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame inductee Tenley Albright told USA TODAY Sports on Friday.
And off the ice, a great kid — as we would say ‘raised right.’” For the Boston club, the accident was an eerie reminder of a 1961 plane crash that killed the entire U.S. delegation en route to the world championships in Prague. The world championships were canceled that year out of respect for the American team.