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From 1964 to 2006, Russian figure skaters — representing the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, or Russia — won the gold medal in the pairs event, in what was the longest series of victories for one country in one winter event. [117]
Ekaterina "Katia" Alexandrovna Gordeeva (Russian: Екатерина Александровна Гордеева; born 28 May 1971) [1] is a Russian figure skater.With her late husband Sergei Grinkov, she is the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion, a four-time World Champion (1986, 1987, 1989, 1990), a three-time European Champion (1988, 1990, 1994), the 1990 Goodwill Games champion, 1987 Soviet ...
It was the first Olympic pairs gold for the Soviet Union. [6] Belousova and Protopopov began the forty-year Soviet/Russian gold medal streak in pair skating, the longest in Olympic sports history, from 1964 to 2006. They won their first World and European gold medals in 1965, becoming the first Soviet/Russian pair to win those titles.
The pair won the 1985 World Junior Championship in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The following year they won the first of their four World Figure Skating Championships. They became repeat world champions the following year and won gold at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Grinkov became one of the youngest male figure skating Olympic ...
Gold medalists Kamila Valieva, Anastasia Mishina, Aleksandr Galliamov, Victoria Sanitsina, Nikita Katsalapov, Mark Kondratiuk of Team Russia celebrate during the team event flower ceremony.
The following is a list of notable figure skaters who have competed in pair skating.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 ...
Shishkova and Naumov, who were married to each other, won the world championships in pairs figure skating in 1994 and had reportedly lived in the United States since at least 1998, where they ...
Russian figure skating pair Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim ... They began to work together in 1987 and competed and won bronze in the 1991 European Championships while representing the former Soviet ...