They have always loved to skate in Russia. In the 19th century, a skating lover appeared on the ice of St. Petersburg, who had no equal - Nikolay Panin-Kolomenkin... The loudest was his victory at IV Olympic Games in London in 1908. At the beginning of the 20th century, only the Summer Olympics were held, but figure skating was included in the program of the London Olympics for the first time. The figures proposed by Panin - Kolomenkin amazed everyone with their complexity, and the judges watched with particular passion for the correctness of their implementation. But there was nothing to complain about - the Russian figure skater brilliantly completed the declared program. The judges unanimously awarded Panin-Kolomenkin the first place. This was the first Olympic gold medal in the history of Russian sports. It is noteworthy that the athlete himself at this time was already 36 years old.
The first Olympic champions in pair skating were those who won gold medals in 1964 and 1968. It was they who invented and were the first to perform many of the elements that were subsequently included in the compulsory competition program for figure skaters around the world. Their performances made such an impression that the figure skating world did not know then.
By the way, the "golden" couple played the "golden" wedding in 2007. Leaving the big sport, Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov did not part with figure skating, worked in the Leningrad Ballet on Ice. They obtained Swiss citizenship in 1995.
In 1972, they became Olympic champions in pair skating Irina Rodnina and Alexey Ulanov... However, the day before the 1972 World Cup, in training, Irina fell from support, was admitted to the hospital with a concussion and intracranial hematoma. The couple skated the short program cleanly, having received marks up to 6.0, in the free program Irina felt bad, completed the program in a semi-faint state. After the World Cup, the couple broke up.
Soon Stanislav Zhuk picked up another partner by Rodnina - Alexandra Zaitseva... First Irina Rodnina performed with Alexander Zaitsev at the 1973 World Championships, where for several minutes they had to skate without musical accompaniment, but they did not interrupt their program and finished it to the applause of the audience.
Since 1974, the couple trained with Tatiana Tarasova... 1973 to 1978 Rodnina and Zaitsev constantly took first places at the European and World Championships. In 1976 and 1980, the Rodnina / Zaitsev pair won gold at the Olympic Games. In 1981, Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev switched to professional sports. We performed on tour, trained.
In 1976, a pair of figure skaters won gold at the Olympic Games Alexander Gorshkov / Lyudmila Pakhomova... Together they became six-time world champions. The coach of the "golden pair" was Elena Anatolyevna Tchaikovskaya and remained the coach of this pair until their retirement from amateur sports. Pakhomova and Gorshkov changed the style of ice dancing. Before them, strict, academic dances predominated, mainly to classical melodies. They also brought into figure skating a lively, emotional folk dance: "Nightingale", "Along St. Petersburg", "Mischievous ditties", "Kumparsita".
Olympic champions Natalia Linichuk and Gennady Karponosov won gold in 1980. Linichuk and Karponosov trained with Elena Chaikovskaya and played for the Dynamo-Moscow club. Already in 1981, they both retired from their sports careers and became successful coaches in ice dancing. In their coaching duet, Gennady is in charge of the compulsory dances, and Natalia is in charge of the original dance and the free program. In the 90s, they left to train in the USA.
At the 84 Winter Olympics, the pair won figure skating Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev... Valova and Vasiliev became the first sports couple to perform a triple parallel jump. The couple were married from 1984 to 1992.
Figure skater Sergey Grinkov with his partner Ekaterina Gordeeva managed to win two Olympic gold medals. Under the guidance of a coach Stanislav Zhuk the couple in 1986 won the title of world champions for the first time. At that time, young Katya was only 14 years old - then a record age in the entire history of world championships in figure skating... For the 1988 Olympic Games, Grinkov and Gordeeva came up as the main favorites. In 1988 Sergei was 21 years old, Katya just turned 17. The free dance, which went down in the history of figure skating as a real masterpiece, was performed to the "March of Mendelssohn". As it turned out, it was not just that. On April 20, 1991, their wedding took place.
A year later, the couple had a daughter, Daria. At this time, they performed a lot at foreign tournaments, took part in a large number of commercial projects. In 1994 Gordeeva and Grinkov win gold again at the Olympics. Exactly one year after the victory, on November 20, 1995, Sergei Grinkov, while training in Lake Placid, suffered a massive heart attack and died right on the ice during training. In 1996, Ekaterina Gordeeva returned to the ice. Her first performance was dedicated to her late husband.
Figure skaters Oksana Grischuk and Evgeny Platov won Olympic gold in 1994 and 1998. The Olympics in Nagano made Grischuk and Platov champions - they were the first in the world to become two-time Olympic champions in ice dancing (despite the fact that Grischuk had broken her wrist shortly before).
In the summer of 1998, a couple Oksana Grischuk / Evgeny Platov broke up. Grischuk received an invitation to work together from Alexandra Zhulina... The collaboration continued throughout the year. Left alone again, Oksana performed solo. Eugene paired up with Maya Usova.
In 1988 Olympic gold in pair figure skating win Natalia Bestemyanova and Andrey Bukin... Charismatic and even eccentric for their time, the pair of figure skaters was remembered by the audience for their performances to the music of the operas "Carmen" by Bizet and "Prince Igor" by Borodin, "Rhapsodies on a Theme of Paganini" by Rachmaninov. They were also very fond of their numbers to the music from the films of Charlie Chaplin and "Cabaret" by Bob Foss, their "Cumparsita" and the waltz "Blue Danube".
Russian single skater Alexey Urmanov- champion of the 1994 Olympics. Alexey won both the technical and the free program thanks to the clean execution of all elements (among all the participants he completed the largest number of triple jumps - 8, including two triple axels). In August 1999, he retired from his amateur career, winning in December 1999 at the World Singles Professional Championships in Washington (USA). Since 2001 he has been working as a trainer, and his most successful student is two-time champion Of Russia Sergey Voronov.
Olympic champion Ilya Kulik in the short program of the 1998 Olympic Games in the avant-garde style to the music of J.-M. Jarre, he performed a purely cascade of triple axel - triple sheepskin coat, took the lead. In an exceptionally harmonious free program, with graceful choreography to the music of J. Gershwin, with well-written elements, Kulik, the only one of all the participants, performed all the jumps absolutely cleanly, including the only one of the leaders and for the first time in his career on international competitions quadruple jump - sheepskin coat, two triple axels (one in a combination with a triple sheepskin coat), as well as five triple jumps.
Arthur Dmitriev became the first male skater to win the Olympic Games with two different partners. In 1992 he won gold with Natalya Mishkutenok, in 1998 - from Oksana Kazakova(on the picture). Dmitriev was remembered for the most difficult supports - the only one performed the partner's signature descent, throwing her over his back. Dmitriev often assisted the trainer in staging programs, acted as a fashion designer, helping to create costumes.
Russian figure skater Alexey Yagudin- Olympic champion in 2002. Victory at the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City is the peak of Yagudin's sports career, one of the brightest victories in the history of figure skating and Russian sports. The short program "Winter", brilliantly performed at the Games, was staged by Tatiana Tarasova, to this day it is considered a reference in terms of choreography and the creation of an artistic image on ice. The performance of the free program "The Man in the Iron Mask" brings Yagudin a kind of Olympic records - he is awarded the victory by all nine judges; he becomes the first Olympic champion to complete two jumps in four turns in the program, one of which is in a cascade, and the first Olympic winner in the category of "men's single skating", who received four 6.0 marks for artistry from the judges.
In 1996, in training while performing a rotation, partner Elena Berezhnaya I hit her on the head with a skate - the temporal bone was pierced, the fragments damaged the lining of the brain. Berezhnaya underwent two neurosurgical operations, after which she again learned not only to walk, but also to speak and read. I learned to ride again with a new partner - Anton Sikharulidze, which supported her throughout the postoperative period. The history of figure skating included the "Charlie Chaplin" program, which Sikharulidze skated together with Elena Berezhnaya in the 2000/2001 season as a free program, and then as an indicative number. In 2002 Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze became Olympic champions.
Evgeny Plushenko two-time Olympic champion: 2006 in singles, 2014 in team competition. Evgeni Plushenko became the first skater to perform a quadruple toe loop — triple toe loop — triple rittberger cascade at the competition (at the Russian Cup in 2002), the first among men to complete the Biellmann rotation, the triple axel-oiler-triple flip cascade (2001). On February 13, 2014, he was supposed to participate in the main competition - single skating, but withdrew from the competition in the short program a minute before the start of the performance due to a back injury. On the same day, he officially announced the end of his sports career.
Winners of XX Winter Olympic Games in Turin in pair skating Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin made their debut at the Olympic Games back in 2002, but were only fourth. In the fall of 2004, at the stage of the Skate America Grand Prix series, Tatyana received a serious head injury: after unsuccessful support from her partner, she fell on the ice, hitting her head, and lost consciousness. The injury was serious, and I had to spend several months in the hospital under the supervision of doctors. At the beginning of 2006 she again took to the ice and won the same year. In 2006, after the Olympics, the couple broke up.
Since 1998 Tatiana Navka, who previously represented Belarus, began to play for Russia in tandem with Roman Kostomarov... They first trained in a group Natalia Linichuk... In the 1999-2000 season, Roman skated with Anna Semenovich, but later again paired up with Tatiana. Since 2000, they have trained under the guidance of Alexandra Zhulina... They were also consulted at various times Elena Chaikovskaya and Tatiana Tarasova... After winning the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov decided to end their sports careers.
February 20 Russian figure skater Adeline Sotnikova won the gold medal in women's singles skating at the Sochi Olympics. This Olympic victory became the first in history for Russian women in this kind of figure skating. Sotnikova started figure skating at the age of five. At the end of 2008, Adelina, at the age of 12, became the winner of the adult championship of Russia, after which sports officials began to use the name of the prodigy girl as a response to the failures that befell domestic women's single skating at that time.
9 February figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya won gold in the team figure skating competition, becoming the youngest Russian champion in the history of the Winter Olympic Games. Had Julia been born 26 days later, she would not have been able to join the Olympic team. According to the regulations, in order to participate in the 2014 Winter Olympics, a skater must be 15 years old by July 1, 2013. Yulia started figure skating in Yekaterinburg when she was only 4 years old. The design of the costumes in which the figure skater performs, she develops herself together with her mother.
A sports couple became the triumphs of the Games Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov... Tatiana and Maxim won the title of Olympic champions in pair skating on February 12. This medal became the second gold of the duo at the Games in Sochi after the success of the Russians in the team competition. Volosozhar and Trankov went to this award for four years, having teamed up in the spring after the Vancouver Olympics. Already in the first joint tournaments, the Russian couple began to demonstrate powerful, confident, and most importantly, creative skating.
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I'll add some critical notes on my own. For some reason, there is no mention of victories at the 1992 Games Victor Petrenko and a dance duet Marina Klimova and Sergey Ponomarenko... Apparently, RIA Novosti does not consider such a phenomenon as "United Team", as something related to domestic sports. Also, this photo selection did not take into account all the winners of the team tournament in Sochi.
- Olympic champion in women's singles skating
SOCHI, 21 Feb - R-Sport, Andrey Simonenko. The Russian national figure skating team won three gold, one silver and one bronze medals at the Sochi Olympic Games. The triumphs of the Games were the sports pair Tatyana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov, single skater Adelina Sotnikova and the national team of the country in team competitions, silver medals on the account of Ksenia Stolbova / Fyodor Klimov in pair skating, bronze in the dancers Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov.
The Olympic Games in figure skating began even before the opening ceremony - when the team tournament, which was held for the first time in the history of the Olympics, hosted men's and pair sports competitions in a short program as part of a team tournament. Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko took second place in them, losing only to the Japanese Yuzur Khan, but the Canadian world champion Patrick Chan was left behind. Reigning champions in pair skating Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov took first place, although the four-time world champions Alena Savchenko / Robin Sholkovy from Germany did not compete in the competition.
The next day, dancers and girls joined the fight. Four-time champions of Russia Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitry Soloviev proved their superiority over all duets, except for Americans Meryl Davis / Charlie White and Canadians Tessa Virtu / Scott Moir. And the brilliant hire of 15-year-old Russian Yulia Lipnitskaya allowed the Russian national team to strengthen its superiority over the Canadians.
In the free program of sports pairs, instead of Volosozhar / Trankov, Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov performed, who had never participated in the world championships in their careers. Nevertheless, the skaters showed the best result in their competition segment, ahead of the more experienced pairs Kirsten Moore Towers / Dylan Moskovich (Canada) and Stefania Burton / Ondrej Gotarek (Italy).
The free program in men's single skating ended with Plushenko's victory - however, in this type of competition, the teams of Canada and Japan replaced their strongest skaters with second numbers. Competitions of women in the free program in the team tournament again became the benefit performance of Yulia Lipnitskaya. The young figure skater with a clean run surpassed all her rivals, after which the Russian team secured the title of Olympic champions. Dancers Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov went out on the ice, knowing that they were already winners of a gold medal - they just had to skate their program.
In the first kind of personal tournament - pair skating - Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov were the undisputed favorites. They were supposed to compete, first of all, with the Savchenko and Sholkovs, who had missed the team competition. But after the short program, the gap between the Russians was almost decisive - more than four points. The free program only confirmed the superiority. Moreover, the Germans made several mistakes, and the silver went to Stolbova and Klimov, who managed to skate two programs cleanly. The Savchenko and the Sholkovs won bronze, while another Russian pair remained in sixth place.
In the following form - men's singles skating - the only one Russian participant Evgeni Plushenko withdrew from the competition right before the start of the short program due to a back injury. This decision was perhaps the most scandalous episode of the Olympics - many accused the two-time Olympic champion of refusing to continue the fight too late, when it was no longer possible to make a replacement for a reserve skater. Plushenko's coach Alexei Mishin explained that his student felt fine after the team competition, and it was impossible to make a substitution according to the rules.
Nevertheless, a version soon appeared that Plushenko still wanted to refuse to continue the fight, but the Russian champion Maxim Kovtun, for whom Evgeny was going to change, was sick. This information was denied by the choreographer of Kovtun Petr Chernyshev, and the coach of the skater Elena Buyanova, arriving in Sochi, stated that responsibility for Plushenko's decision to compete in an individual tournament and the subsequent withdrawal lies only with him.
In the competitions themselves, there were no equal to two skaters - Yuzuru Khan and Patrick Chan. The Japanese scored several points more than the Canadian, winning gold. Chan got the silver, and the bronze in a bitter struggle was won by Denis Ten from Kazakhstan.
In ice dancing, revolution, as it became clear from the team tournament, should not have happened. There were two main questions: who is stronger in the fight for gold - Davis / White or Virtue / Moir, and who will get the bronze? The answer to the second point was given by Ilinykh and Katsalapov, who, in the struggle for third place, scored significantly more on the sum of the two programs than the French Nathalie Peshala / Fabian Bourza and Bobrova / Soloviev. The American couple became the champions of the Olympic Games, the Canadians won silver medals.
Ended the same olympic tournament figure skaters triumph of Adelina Sotnikova. The four-time champion of Russia, whom they decided not to include in the national team in the team competition, already demonstrated her medal claims in the short program of the individual tournament. Sotnikova scored almost as many points as Vancouver Olympic champion Kim Yoo Na. Along with these two skaters, Italian Carolina Kostner was walking, but Lipnitskaya, due to a fall on a flip, after a short program, practically lost her chances for personal gold. Japanese Mao Asada, who was also considered by many as a contender for victory, fell back to 16th place due to two blunders.
The performances of the top three contenders for the free skate awards were impeccable. Sotnikova turned out to be the strongest in terms of the totality of the technical set of elements and the purity of the program execution. She brought the historical gold to the national team - never in the history of women's single skating has a Russian woman won in Olympic competitions in this discipline. The second place was taken by the Korean figure skater, and the third was Kostner. The Lipnitskaya free skate also skated imperfectly and remained fifth.
"Our figure skating conquered all the peaks, and our skaters exceeded the plan at these Games," - this is how the Minister of Sports of Russia Vitaly Mutko summed up the Olympic competitions among figure skaters.
Completed her career. According to the comment of the athlete's mother that appeared on the network, Yulia informed the leadership of the federation about her departure back in April. The reason for this decision was the figure skater's illness. The athlete's mother noted that Lipnitskaya was undergoing three months of treatment for anorexia.
In an interview with Gazeta.Ru, the athlete's mentor Alexei did not refute the information about the athlete's decision to end her career.
“I am not yet answering questions about Yulia’s departure,” Urmanov said.
The leadership of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR) after the test skates in Sochi will meet with the athlete and her coach Alexei Urmanov to discuss the further plans of the skater, the FFKKR general director said.
“Lipnitskaya, as you know, will not participate in test skates in Sochi. But after the skates we will meet and discuss with Yulia and Urmanov their future plans, "R-Sport quotes Kogan.
Earlier, the honorary president of the FFKKR hinted that it was time for Julia to hang her skates on a nail.
“The situation of Lipnitskaya, in my opinion, is similar to the story of Adelina Sotnikova. The sooner she finally draws conclusions, makes a decision, the better it will be for everyone, so as not to fool people, fans. No need to mislead figure skating enthusiasts. After all, everyone understands that when there is, it is difficult for Lipnitskaya to fight them, ”Piseev said.
Last season, Lipnitskaya missed the Russian figure skating championship due to a hip injury sustained as a result of falling on a slippery sidewalk while returning from training.
The main award of the athlete, who was won over her short career, is gold medal at the 2014 Olympics. Julia became the winner of the team competition together with Evgeny, Maxim Trankov, and Nikita Katsalapov.
Lipnitskaya in Sochi showed the best result in short and free programs, gaining twenty points out of twenty possible.
Also on the account of the skater is the silver of the 2014 World Championship and the gold of the European championship of the same year.
Lipnitskaya's last start was the Moscow stage of the Grand Prix, which took place in November 2016, when she was forced to interrupt the free program due to problems with her leg and eventually finished in last place.
It is worth noting that Yulia is not the only triumphant at the Sochi Olympics, who is now experiencing difficulties in continuing her career. So, the winner of gold in women's singles skating will miss the 2017/18 season. This was announced by the coach of the athlete Evgeni Plushenko.
“Adelina Sotnikova will not compete this season due to injury. We all hoped that we would heal this injury, but unfortunately it didn't work out. The injury is still troubling, full-fledged training does not work, and it is wrong to enter the competition in such a situation. Now we need to heal the trauma that still takes place due to the fact that, unfortunately, the diagnosis was wrong, Adeline did not recover, and this damage worries her. She had a ruptured ankle ligament and a bone fracture in her foot. Initially, it was thought that Adeline would quickly recover from this injury. Initially, they did not put a plaster cast, and in general, a completely different diagnosis was made.
Skipping a season does not mean the end of a career, ”Plushenko said.
The President of the FFKKR said that in figure skating there are often cases when, after a long break, a returning athlete could again reach a high level.
“It so happened, no one is to blame. Zhenya (Plushenko) explained the situation in great detail - there was an injury, they began to treat it not quite correctly. Now she (Sotnikova) can skate, but she cannot train at full strength. Given the time left, it will be unrealistic for her to enter this season.
He also stressed that there were many examples in history of how skaters returned to a high level. “We have many examples of athletes returning and performing at a high level again. The same (Italian), ”said Gorshkov.
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Maige Sayers won the gold medal at the first Olympic Games of 1908 to include women's ice skating. Back in 1901, this outstanding Englishwoman began to participate in men's competitions, since women's separate competitions were not allowed at that time. In addition, she became world champion for two years in a row, in 1906 and 1907.
After the First World War, the most famous figure skater in the world was Sonia Heni from Norway. She won all the Olympics and World Championships in 1927-1936 and was the first woman to master the single axel.
During World War II, European countries stopped training, while the United States and Canada continued to train. As a result, the gold of the 1948 Olympics went to the Canadian Barbara Ann Scott. She also became famous for being the first woman to make a double lutz in 1942.
In 1952, the Englishwoman Genette Alwegg, the winner of the 1951 World Cup, won the Olympic gold medal. Her performances were distinguished by the clarity and perfection of the obligatory figures.
For many years in women's single skating, all the prizes were taken by American women. Tenley Albright (Olympic gold in 1956) and Carol Heiss (gold in 1960, silver in 1954) established a clear uniform style - the main thing in it is flexibility, plasticity, spectacular choreography and very high-quality technical elements. This style was further approved by American women Peggy Fleming (1968 Olympic gold) and Dorothy Hamill (1976 Olympic gold).
The figure skater from Austria, Beatrice Schuba, also made her mark in women's single skating. Due to the execution of the required figures with the highest quality, she received the last mark for figures above 5 points and received the gold of the 1972 Olympics.
In the 1980s, the GDR entered the scene and brought an innovative sporting style to women's single skating, while also revealing artistic talent. In 1980, Anette Petsch won Olympic gold, and the next two Olympics, 1984 and 1988, were won by Katharina Witt, with perfect technical elements and harmonious programs.
In 1992, the Olympic gold in women's singles skating returned to the Americans - it was received by Christy Yamaguchi. She became famous for winning first place in the US Championships in both singles and pair skating.
At the 1994 Olympics, the Ukrainian Oksana Baiul distinguished herself, striking everyone with the quality of the elements and the exceptional emotionality of her performance.
The gold of the 1998 and 2002 Olympics returned to the American women. The winners in them were Tara Lipinski (the youngest winner of games in individual disciplines) and Sarah Hughes (won thanks to a large number of difficult elements - in the free program she performed 7 triple jumps, including 2 cascades 3 + 3).
The 2006 Olympics in Turin pushed the American school to second place (Sasha Cohen - silver). The gold was won by the Japanese woman Shizuka Arakawa, she became the first Japanese figure skater to win the Olympic Games.
At the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, the first place was taken by the representative of South Korea Kim Yong A. She became the first figure skater to have all the highest titles possible: in her career at all competitions she always found herself on the podium. Kim Young Ah won the Olympic Games, Four Continents Championship, World Championship, Grand Prix Final.
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In the days of the Soviet Union, the names of our skaters thundered all over the world. Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov, Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov, Irina Rodnina, Natalia Bestemyanova and Andrey Bukin - everyone knew these athletes. Russian figure skating today is no longer considered the absolute best on the planet. But nevertheless there are stars in it who adequately continue the glorious traditions of their predecessors.
Roman Kostomarov and Tatiana Navka
This pair is considered to be one of the most artistic and beautiful in pair skating. The first time they became world champions was in 2004 at a competition in Dortmund, Germany. Then they won gold at the 2006 Olympics, won the Russian figure skating championship three times, won the European championship three times, and eventually became three times world champions. The couple broke up at one time, but after the birth of Tatiana's daughter in 2000, the duo reunited again.
Alexey Yagudin
Alexey Yagudin is the gold medalist of the 2002 Olympics, four times won the title of world champion in single skating. First, the athlete trained with Alexei Mishin, then moved on to the famous Tatyana Tarasova. Over the entire time of his performances, Alexey only once lost the world title, giving it to his rival Evgeni Plushenko. This happened in 2006 at the Vancouver Championships.
Anton Sikharulidze and Elena Berezhnaya
In 2002, the pair became Olympic pair skating champions in Salt Lake City. Elena and Anton are silver medalists of the 1998 Winter Olympics, twice became world champions and twice - Europe. They also won four Russian championships.
In 1996, Berezhnaya, who was then performing with Oleg Shlyakhov, received a severe head injury. She was on the verge of death, underwent two difficult operations, but returned to the big sport. With Sikharulidze, she learned to skate again, the new partner supported Elena in everything.
Ilya Overbukh and Irina Lobacheva
The duo won the 2002 Ice Dance World Championship in Nagano. Then in 2003 Ilya and Irina became European champions. They are also three-time Russian champions, silver medalists at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.
The skaters were married and have a son. But later they broke up, and the sports couple broke up.
Today I invite you to remember, dear readers, the Olympic champions in men's single skating, who managed to win not one Olympiad, but two or even three. As it turned out, there are not so many such athletes, but only five people in the entire history of figure skating, and one of them, Evgeny Plushenko, was taken into account for winning the team competition. All other skaters have multiple individual points. Below they are presented to your attention.
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1. Gillis (Yillis) Grafström (Sweden)... Gillis Grafström in his life became a three-time Olympic champion - in 1920 he won the Summer Olympic Games, which were held in Antwerp (Belgium), and then two winter Olympics- 1924 (Chamonix, France) and 1928 (St. Moritz, Switzerland).
Grafström was distinguished by his excellent execution of the obligatory figures. He is the author of the flying sit spin. After completing his career, Grafström also coached the outstanding Norwegian figure skater Sonia Heni. In addition to the figure skater, Gillis Grafström worked as an architect, writer and printmaker. In Germany, in the city of Potsdam, there is a street named after him. In 1976, Gillis Grafström was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
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2. Karl Schaefer (Austria). Two-time Olympic champion in 1932 (Lake Placid, USA) and 1936 (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany).
In addition to figure skating, Karl Schaefer played excellent violin, and in addition was the Austrian champion in breaststroke swimming. At the end of his figure skating career, in 1940, Karl Schaefer organized the "Karl Schaefer Ice Review" show. After World War II, he restored Engelmann's ice rink and worked as a coach. From 1974 to 2008, a figure skating tournament named after him - "Karl Schaefer Memorial" was held annually in Vienna.
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3. Richard (Dick) Button (USA). Two-time Olympic champion in 1948 (St. Moritz, Switzerland) and 1952 (Oslo, Norway).
At the 1948 Olympics, Dick Button won the mandatory lifts competition. At competitions in a free program, he first managed to perform a double axel. Dick Button became the first athlete to perform this jump in competition. At the 1952 Olympics, Dick Button again becomes the first figure skater in history to complete the triple rittberger jump in competition. Having skated a brilliant free program, he won the Olympic Games again.
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4. Evgeni Plushenko (Russia). Two-time Olympic champion - 2006 (Turin, Italy) - in individual competition and 2014 (Sochi, Russia) - in team competition.
At the 2006 Olympics, which were held in Turin, Evgeni Plushenko won by a huge 27 points behind the runner-up Swiss figure skater Stéphane Lambiel. At the 2014 Olympic Games, Evgeni Plushenko competed in team competitions. After the short program, Plushenko was second only to Yuzur Khan. According to the results of the short and free program, Evgeny brought the team 19 points out of 20 possible. The Russian national team won the team competition.
5. Yuzuru Hanyu (Japan). Two-time Olympic champion (naturally in the individual classification) in 2014 (Sochi, Russia) and 2018 (Pyeongchang, Korea).
At the 2014 Olympics, Yuzuru Hanyu won both the short and free skating, becoming the undisputed winner of the Olympic Games. At the 2018 Olympics, Hanyu was still competing from his injury. The consequences of the injury made themselves felt, and therefore, Hanyu did not participate in the team competition, but concentrated on performing in the individual competition. The performance was successful, taking first place in the short program, and second in the free program, in terms of the total points, Hanyu managed to maintain the lead and win the second Olympics in his life.
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Here they are, multiple Olympic champions in the history of world men's single skating. Let's remember them and wait for the replenishment of the historical list, we hope, by entering the names and surnames of Russian figure skaters.
