There are many examples of how very young athletes became Olympic champions. There are many of them in the entire history of the Olympics, including Sochi.
The youngest champions of the Sochi Olympics
Each Olympiad can boast not only the discovery of new champions, sports achievements of countries, but also the emergence of new very young prize-winners. The Sochi Olympics also summed up the results. It turned out that among its winners, the youngest is the Japanese Ayumu Hirano. At the age of fifteen years and seventy-four days, he won the silver medal in snowboarding.Another medalist is Sim Sook Hee. The athlete represented South Korea in short track speed skating. She won gold at a distance of three thousand meters. The girl at the time of the presentation of the award was only seventeen years and sixteen days old. She also has a bronze medal, won by her at a distance of one thousand meters. Adelina Sotnikova, representing the host country of the Sochi Olympics, received gold for women's single figure skating at the age of seventeen years and two hundred and thirty-four days. The young athlete became the first Russian woman to win the highest award in this type of figure skating.
Seventeen years and two hundred and forty-one days was a short-tracker from South Korea at the time she received a medal in ash for wrestling at a distance of three thousand meters. The name of the winner is Kon Sang Jung.
Seventeen years two hundred and fifty days, that is, only 9 days older - this is the age of a Chinese short tracker named Han Tianyu. For victory at a distance of one and a half kilometers, he received a silver medal.
The youngest freestyle wrestling and boxing champions
Boxing and freestyle wrestling are also included in the program of the Olympic Games. The youngest participant in the Olympics competed in the flyweight in the 1980 games. His surname is Mahabir Singh. This Indian athlete was only fifteen years old and three hundred thirty days old. Mahabir did not receive a medal, but managed to become the fifth. 
Athlete Togrul Asgarov became the youngest winner in freestyle wrestling at the Olympic Games. At the age of nineteen years, ten months and twenty-four days, he was conquered gold medal... For comparison, it must be said that the average age of participants in freestyle wrestling competitions is twenty six years one hundred fifty three days.
Jackie Fields became the youngest Olympic champion in the history of boxing. His real name is Yakov Finkelstein. In 1924, at the age of sixteen, the young man participated in the Olympics as part of the US national team in the featherweight category. At the Paris Olympics, he managed to become an Olympic champion. Since today, according to the rules, it is possible to participate in the Olympics in this type of competition from the age of eighteen, this Fields record will never be broken.
It is known about another young Olympic champion - a boxer from Mexico Alfonso Zamora. At the 1972 Munich Olympics, the Mexican athlete won a silver medal in the first featherweight title. At that time he was only eighteen years old.
Did Lipnitskaya become the youngest champion?
On Sochi Olympics medals were awarded to many very young athletes. The Russian figure skater, who is not yet sixteen, also entered the list of the youngest champions of this Olympics. Her surname is Yulia Lipnitskaya. 
I must say that at this Olympics she did not become the youngest. At the time of the victory, Julia was fifteen years old and two hundred and forty-nine days old. She won a gold medal in the team figure skating competition. The Japanese athlete Ayumu Hirano turned out to be younger than Yulia.
Although Lipnitskaya is not the youngest Olympic champion in the history of the Olympic Games or at the Sochi Olympics, nevertheless, the girl became the youngest champion from Russia in the history of the Winter Olympics.
Youngest Olympic champion in history
For all the years of the Olympic Games, the youngest champion is the Frenchman Marcel Depayet, who participated in the Olympic Games in 1900. The boy was a participant in rowing competitions, played as a coxswain in a pair for the Netherlands national team. How old he was is not known exactly. His age ranged from eight to ten years. A boy took over as the helmsman, as the previous helmsman was too heavy. Depaye won gold. 
Due to the fact that the age of Marcel Depaye is not reliably known, it is quite possible that a boy named Dimitrios Lundras could be in first place in terms of age among the youngest Olympic champions. This young gymnast received a bronze medal while competing on the uneven bars. At the time of the victory he was ten years old and two hundred and eighteen days old.
Now there is an age limit to participate in the Olympics. Because of this, the youngest champions in history will forever remain and will never be defeated. Different sports today have different age limits, but the age limit never falls below fourteen years.
By the way, the fastest athlete in the world, Usain Bolt, according to the site, became an Olympic champion nine times. He runs a hundred meters in 9.58 seconds.
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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 80s, they entered the scene from the GDR, they brought single skating innovative sporty style, while also revealing artistic ability. 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 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.
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| 1908 London United Kingdom United Kingdom Report | Ulrich Salchow Sweden | Ricard Johansson, Sweden | Per Toren Sweden |
| 1920 Antwerp Belgium Belgium Report | Gillis Grafström Sweden | Andreas KroghNorway | Martin StixrudNorway |
| 1924 Chamonix France France Report | Gillis Grafström Sweden | Willy Böckl Austria | Georges Gauci, Switzerland |
| 1928 St. Moritz Switzerland Switzerland Report | Gillis Grafström Sweden | Willy Böckl Austria | Robert van Zebroeck Belgium |
| 1932 Lake Placid USA USA Report | Karl Schaefer Austria | Gillis Grafström Sweden | Bud Wilson Canada |
| 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Germany Report | Karl Schaefer Austria | Ernst Bayer Germany | Felix Kaspar Austria |
| 1948 St. Moritz Switzerland Switzerland Report | Richard Button USA | Hans Gerschwiler Switzerland | Edi Rada Austria |
| 1952 Oslo Norway Norway | Richard Button USA | Helmut Seibt, Austria | James Grogan USA |
| 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy Italy | Hayes Alan Jenkins USA | Ronald Robertson USA | David Jenkins USA |
| 1960 Squaw Valley USA USA | David Jenkins USA | Karol Divin | Donald JacksonCanada |
| 1964 Innsbruck Austria Austria | Manfred Schneldorfer United German Team | Alain CalmaFrance | Scott Allen USA |
| 1968 Grenoble France France | Wolfgang SchwarzAustria | Tim Wood USA | Patrick Pera France |
| 1972 Sapporo Japan Japan | Ondrej Nepela | Sergey Chetverukhin USSR | Patrick Pera France |
| 1976 Innsbruck Austria Austria | John Curry United Kingdom | Vladimir Kovalev USSR | Toler Cranston Canada |
| 1980 Lake Placid USA USA | Robin Cousins United Kingdom | Jan Hoffman | Charles Tickner USA |
| 1984 Sarajevo Yugoslavia Yugoslavia | Scott Hamilton USA | Brian Orser Canada | Josef Sabovczyk |
| 1988 Calgary Canada Canada | Brian Boitano USA | Brian Orser Canada | Victor PetrenkoUSSR |
| 1992 Albertville France France | Viktor PetrenkoUnited team | Paul Wiley USA | Peter Barna |
| 1994 Lillehammer Norway Norway | Alexey Urmanov, Russia | Elvis Stoiko Canada | Philippe Candeloro France |
| 1998 Nagano Japan Japan | Ilya Kulik, Russia | Elvis Stoiko Canada | Philippe Candeloro France |
| 2002 Salt Lake City USA USA | Alexey Yagudin Russia | Evgeni Plushenko, Russia | Timothy Gable USA |
| 2006 Turin Italy Italy | Evgeni Plushenko, Russia | Stéphane Lambiel, Switzerland | Jeffrey Battle Canada |
| 2010 Vancouver Canada Canada | Evan Lysacek USA | Evgeni Plushenko, Russia | Daisuke Takahashi Japan |
| 2014 Sochi Russia Russia | Yuzuru Hanyu Japan | Patrick Chan Canada | Denis TenKazakhstan |
| 2018 Pyeongchang Republic of Korea Republic of Korea | Yuzuru Hanyu Japan | Shoma UnoJapan | Javier Fernandez Spain |
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Famous skaters of Russia, Olympic champions
Figure skating today is one of the most popular sports in the world, attracting more and more children - future champions, as well as interesting and beautiful to watch on TV or on an ice rink.
The emergence of figure skating
The first skates on iron runners appeared in the 13-14 centuries in Holland, therefore it is she who is considered the ancestor of figure skating.
After the appearance of skates of a fundamentally new type, popularity also came, which incredibly contributed to the rapid development of this sport, which in those days boiled down to drawing various figures on the ice and at the same time not losing a beautiful pose.
The first figure skating rulebook was published in England in 1772 and was called "A Treatise on Ice Skating." It described all the main figures known at that time. Thus, Great Britain secured the authorship of all the figures that are required in figure skating. In addition, in 1742, the first ice skating circles appeared here, and official rules for the competition were developed and approved.
Sports historians unanimously recognize the American Jason Heinz as the founder of the modern style of figure skating. It was he who played a major role in its distribution throughout the world, and, in particular, in Russia.
Figure skating development in Russia
V Russian Empire figure skating was very popular in the days of Peter I, who brought the first skates from Europe. It is noteworthy that the Russian emperor was the first to come up with the idea of attaching skates directly to shoes and created, in fact, the prototype of modern skates.
The first Russian manual for figure skaters was published in 1838 in St. Petersburg and was called "Winter fun and the art of ice skating", compiled by the gymnastics teacher of the military educational institution G.M. Pauli.
Figure skating appeared in Russia in 1865, and at the same time the first skating rink was opened in the Yusupov Garden in St. Petersburg. At that time, it was the most comfortable in all of Russia and immediately became a platform for the professional training of figure skaters. And in 1878 the first competition among Russian athletes was held.
The first skaters of Russia began to appear at the end of the 19th century. A pioneer who took part in international competitions, became A.P. Lebedev, who was a lawyer by training.
Nikolai Poduskov took part in the first already official competition, which was held in 1896 and took 4th place in single skating, but at the 1901 Russian Open Championship he took the last place.
Georgy Sanders, taking part in the same competitions as Poduskov, took 3rd place, becoming a bronze medalist. In addition, he was the first to perform complex figures, the author of which was, which in turn helped another famous Russian figure skater - Nikolai Panin, who performed them at the 1908 Olympics in London, to win the first Olympic "gold" for Russia.
Of the Soviet champions who won the highest awards in various competitions in figure skating, the most famous are Sergei Chetverukhin (silver at the Sapporo Olympics, bronze at the 1971 World Championship, silver at the World Championships in Calgary (1972) and Bratislava (1973) and bronze at the European Championships in 1969 year) and Sergei Volkov (in 1975 - world champion, USSR champion in 1974 and 1976).
Famous Russian male figure skaters in single skating
Famous skaters of Russia have repeatedly become champions and won prizes in all kinds of tournaments - from the Olympic Games to championships of various levels, Grand Prix and Cups.
One of the first best figure skaters in Russia was Alexei Urmanov - multiple medalist and champion of the USSR, Russia and European champion, Olympic champion in 1994.
At the 1998 Olympics, Russia again won the gold medal in men's singles, which was won by Ilya Kulik. In addition to the highest Olympic award, the arsenal of this famous Russian figure skater includes "gold" of the Russian championship, "silver" and "bronze" of the world and European championships.
One of the most famous and best athletes in Russia is Alexei Yagudin, who has the main athlete's award - the "gold" of the 2002 Olympics. He is a multiple champion of Europe and the world, winner of the Grand Prix finals in figure skating. 
No less famous is the young single skater Maxim Kovtun, who has several serious victories on his account. He is a three-time winner of the Russian Championship and took silver at the 2015 European Championship.
The most famous and titled figure skater in Russia and all over the world is Evgeni Plushenko. He is the owner of gold medals at two Olympics (2006 - in singles, 2014 - in team skating), twice took the "silver" of the Olympic Games. Plushenko won the world title three times, the European champion seven times and the Russian championship ten times. He also has many other awards and titles. 
Plushenko has a number of sporting achievements, and his hallmark is the performance of the most difficult single skating figures in competitions. There is no equal to him.
Russian male figure skaters are rightfully considered one of the best in the world.
Famous Russian female singles
Unfortunately, women's singles skating in Russia cannot boast of a long history of performances and awards in this sport.
The history of victories began only in 1976 with the appearance of the skater Elena Vodorezova. It was she who won the first awards at the European Championship, and later became the third at the World Championship.
The first Olympic medal- "bronze" - was won by a single skater Kira Ivanova in 1983.
Success came to the skaters only when, for the first time in the history of Russia, Irina Slutskaya won the 1996 European Championship. And already in 1999, also at the European Championship, Maria Butyrskaya, Soldatova and Volchkova won all the awards. In the same year, Butyrskaya won gold at the World Championship.
Despite the fact that the best skaters in Russia Maria Butyrskaya and Irina Slutskaya no longer perform, they are the most famous and legendary skaters in Russia to this day.
The current leaders of Russian women's single skating are Yulia Lipnitskaya and Adelina Sotnikova.
Sotnikova, the first and so far the only one, won the Olympic gold medal in women's singles. In addition, she became the winner of the Russian championships 4 times, and twice won silver at the European championships. 
Figure skating connoisseurs call Adeline a child prodigy, because at the age of 13 she performed the most difficult elements of figure skating.
Yulia Lipnitskaya is also an Olympic gold medalist in team competition. In addition, she has awards of various merit at the World and European Championships, including junior ones.
Julia is now 17 years old, Adeline is 19, and behind them is the future of women's single skating in Russia.
Best in pair skating
Russia in pair skating for titles, regalia and world famous athletes is much more lucky than in singles.
Even those who are very far from the world of sports know Russian pair skaters by their last names and faces.
Our couple Oleg Protopopov and Lyudmila Belousova won their first Olympic "gold" back in 1964, again in 1968. They are the authors of many elements that are still part of the compulsory program of performances around the world. At that time, this couple was the only one who skated in a way that no one else could.
The next couple to conquer the Olympics were Alexey Ulanov and Irina Rodnina - in 1972. Irina Rodnina won the next gold in a pair with Alexander Zaitsev in 1976 and 1980.
The most famous skaters of Russia - Olympic champions in pair skating it is:
Anton Sikharulidze and Elena Berezhnaya;
Maxim Marinin and Tatiana Totmianina;
Roman Kostomarov and Tatiana Navka.
The leaders of pair skating today are the figure skaters of Russia Maxim Trankov and Tatyana Volosozhar, who already have 2 Olympic gold medals (in pair skating and team competitions) and they are not going to stop there. 
Best Couples in Ice Dancing
Sports ice dancing as a separate discipline was included in the program of international competitions only in 1950.
In this program, Russia (then still the Soviet Union) was represented by the famous couple Alexander Gorshkov and Lyudmila Pakhomova, who set the tone for dancing around the world and became world champions 6 times and won gold at the 1976 Olympics.
The first, already Russian, famous dance couple Oksana Grischuk and Evgenia Platova twice became gold medalists of the 1994 and 1998 Olympics, which made them champions in this sport.
A couple of Maxim Shabalin and Oksana Domnina are known, among whose achievements there is a bronze medal of the 2010 Olympics, a double gold of the European Championships and the 2009 world champions.
Some of the most famous young dancers, Nikita Katsalapov and Elena Ilinykh, brought Olympic gold, silver and bronze medals from the European and Russian championships to the medal box of Russia. The couple broke up after the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Today the best, strongest and most famous skaters of Russia in ice dancing - Dmitry Soloviev and Ekaterina Bobrova - are champions of Europe and Russia.
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Outstanding Olympic figure skating champions of different years
Figure skating is one of the most beautiful and challenging sports. The Olympics are a particularly difficult and exciting test for an athlete. Many people enjoy watching figure skaters perform at the Olympic Games. But few people think that behind this beautiful and mesmerizing spectacle lies the hard and everyday work of athletes. How much pain, sweat, failures and tears have to go through! And how hard it is to give the coveted gold. It is especially difficult for fragile girls performing in single skating. 
A bit of history
How spectacular figure skating looks! Women - Olympic champions in this sport - known all over the world. But not everyone knows that women's single skating was born only in 1906. It was then that singles competitions for men and women began to be held. And in 1908, women's single skating was included in the Olympics program.
The first Olympic figure skating champions
The first Olympic champion in women's singles skating in 1908 was the Englishwoman Madge Sayers. She is a truly outstanding athlete. She began her performances back in 1901, when women's singles were not allowed at all, so she participated in the men's. Moreover, she became twice world champion - in 1906 and 1907. Two years in a row, which not every athlete can do.
Further, in the period after the First World War, the most outstanding athlete was the Norwegian Sonja Heni, who won all competitions and Olympics from 1927 to 1936. It was she who was the first woman who managed to master the single axel. These outstanding women are the first Olympic figure skating champions.
Post-war period in figure skating
During the Second World War, athletes from European countries did not have the opportunity to train. Only figure skaters from the USA and Canada continued their studies. Not surprisingly, the next figure skating champion was a Canadian citizen. At the 1948 Games, Barbara Ann Scott won Olympic gold. One of her achievements was the first double lutz in women's single skating, performed by her in 1942.
1952 Olympic gold earned by Genette Alwegg from Great Britain. She was also the world champion in 1951. At that time, artistry was less appreciated, and Genette's performances were always distinguished by clear, perfect execution of jumps and other required elements. This set it apart from its main competitors. It is noteworthy that the gold of the Olympics again fell into the hands of the Englishwoman.
American stage in women's figure skating
At this stage, American women do not let go of gold and silver medals. At the 1956 Olympics, Tenley Albright is the winner. The next Olympic figure skating champion in 1960 was her compatriot Carol Heiss, who had previously won the silver medal in the competition.
The American women established their own distinctive, recognizable style of skating, which was distinguished by flexibility, plasticity, precision of movements, spectacular choreography, as well as high-quality and technical performance of the required elements. This style continued to be shown by the next generation of American figure skaters. In 1968 Peggy Fleming became the Olympic champion, and in 1976 Dorothy Hamill received gold.
An athlete from Austria also contributed to figure skating. She was the outstanding Beatrice Schuba, who performed the required figures with the highest quality and was the only one who received a score above 5 points for her technique. This brought her the coveted Olympic gold in 1972.
Triumph of German figure skaters
Olympic figure skating champions from Germany have also made a significant contribution to the history of this sport. In the 80s, athletes from the GDR made themselves known. They were strong skaters who brought an innovative, powerful sporting style to skating. At the same time, the artistic abilities of these girls were at a fairly high level.
At the 1980 Olympic Games, gold goes to Anette Petsch. And after her, her compatriot Katharina Witt leads two Olympics - in 1984 and 1988. This athlete was distinguished by the perfect execution of technical elements and harmoniously built programs.
A new stage in women's figure skating
Olympic gold returned to American women again in 1992. It was brought to the country by Christie Yamaguchi. She is known for winning the United States Championships twice: in singles and pairs figure skating.
Oksana Baiul, a citizen of Ukraine, becomes the 1994 Olympic champion. This skater impressed the audience and the judges with her excellent technique of performing elements and a very emotional performance.
And again, the American women are at their best. The 1998 Games bring gold to Tara Lipinski, who became the youngest individual Olympic champion. Sarah Hughes wins in 2002 with a record number of difficult elements and free jumps.
In Turin, the American figure skating school comes in second place. American Sasha Cohen gets a silver medal. And the first place is awarded to the Japanese woman Shizuka Arakawa. She is the first Japanese female skater to become an Olympic champion.
The next outstanding figure skater is a girl from South Korea. Kim Young Ah received all the top titles that no other figure skater had ever done before. She won gold at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, won the four continents championship, became the world champion and the leader of the Grand Prix finals.
Sochi Olympics
The Olympic Games in Sochi became an important stage in the history of figure skating. Figure skating is gaining a valuable innovation. For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, a team competition is held. Skaters from Russia receive gold in it. Young figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya, who becomes the youngest Olympic champion, takes part in this standings. But in the individual competition, Yulia was not lucky, and she becomes only fifth.
Gold still goes to Russia. In the individual standings, the winner is Adelina Sotnikova - another young Russian woman who amazed everyone with her amazing performance in technique, artistry and emotions. Olympic figure skating champions like Adelina and Yulia receive the first gold medals for Russia in women's single skating. Adelina Sotnikova becomes the first individual winner of the Games from Russia.
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Olympic victories of Russian figure skaters (photo) / Sports magazine
For Russia, figure skating has always been the kind that brought a lot of Olympic gold. In anticipation of the triumph of our national team in the team competition in Sochi, we recall the most important victories won by Russian and Soviet figure skaters at Olympic ice, - in the photo gallery Sport Mail.Ru. Irina Rodnina and Alexey Ulanov at the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo, where they became champions. Irina Rodnina and Alexey Ulanov are champions of the 1972 Olympics. Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev at the 1976 Olympics. In Austria, Irina became a two-time Olympic champion. After Lake Placida 1980. Irina Rodnina is already a three-time Olympic champion in pair skating, Alexander Zaitsev is two-time champion... Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin are world champions in ice dancing. At the Vancouver Olympics, they won bronze medals. According to one of the opinions, the couple could not compete for a different result, not only because of the partner's injury, but also because of the poorly chosen composition and costumes. Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin at the Vancouver Olympics performing the compulsory dance. After the Canadian Games, the couple retired due to knee problems with a partner. Evgeni Plushenko won his second silver at the Games in Vancouver. Yuko Kawaguchi and Alexander Smirnov - twice bronze medalists of the world championships in pair figure skating. The story of Yuko, who wanted to train only with Tatyana Moskvina and changed her citizenship for this, always aroused sympathy for the couple among the fans. The more offensive was their fourth place at the Vancouver Olympics. But even more offensive for the athletes was the fact that they miss the Sochi Games due to Alexander's severe injury. Evgeni Plushenko won the silver medal at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002. It was the first Olympics and the first Olympic medal for a figure skater. This girl needs no introduction - her titles speak for her. Irina Slutskaya - silver medalist at the 2002 Olympic Games, bronze medalist at the 2006 Olympic Games, two-time world champion (2002, 2005), the first seven-time European champion in history (1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006). During the Olympics in Nagano, Irina Slutskaya turned 19 years old. At those Games, she took fifth place. At the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Irina Slutskaya took second place, losing by one judge's vote to American Sarah Hughes. In the same year, she became the world champion for the first time. Maria Butyrskaya at the Olympics in Nagano stopped a step away from the podium, but a year later she became the world champion Olympic champion in men's singles skating at the 1998 Games Ilya Kulik. He retired shortly after this victory. And the heroes are sometimes inexperienced: at the Nagano Olympics, Alexei Yagudin was fifth. In 2002, the whole world followed what this young man was doing on the ice. His "Winter" and "The Man in the Iron Mask" conquered everyone. After the victorious skate, he sincerely and very emotionally sobbed - the winners are allowed to. So Alexey Yagudin became the 2002 Olympic champion. In addition to the Olympics, Yagudin won the World Championship four times and the European Championship three times. It's funny that Yagudin never won the Russian championship: he has 4 silver and 1 bronze medals.Irina Lobacheva and Ilya Averbukh won silver medals in ice dancing at the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City (USA) in February 2002, and soon won the World Championship.
The victory of Anton and Elena at the 2002 Games was overshadowed by a scandal that led to global changes in the rules of figure skating. After the awarding ceremony, it was decided to award the second set of gold medals - they were received by Canadian figure skaters Zhami Sale and David Pelletier. Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze are a couple in which their partner had to be taught to walk again a couple of years before the silver at the Olympics in Nagano. They will come from Japan with the rank of vice-champions, and four years later, in Salt Lake City, they will win the championship title in pair skating. Yekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov are the 1994 Lillehammer pair skating champions. Aleksey Urmanov is the 1994 Olympic champion in men's singles skating. Oksana Grischuk and Evgeny Platov - two-time Olympic champions in ice dancing (1994, 1998). Olympic champions in sports ice dancing, figure skaters Oksana Grischuk and Evgeny Platov. Lillehammer 1994. According to the results of the dance pairs tournament of the Olympics in Nagano, 5 Russians were on the podium: champions Oksana Grischuk and Evgeny Platov (center), silver medalists - Angelica Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov (left) and bronze medalist Marina Anisina. Marina is a Muscovite who paired up with the Frenchman Gwendal Peizerat. At the 2002 Games, Anisina will take gold, which fell at the expense of France. Olympic champions in pair skating Oksana Kazakova and Artur Dmitriev took their gold at the Games in Nagano. But in addition to this championship, Arthur also has the Albertville 1992 gold paired with Natalia Mishkutenok and the 1994 Lillehammer silver with the same partner. Oleg Vasiliev and Elena Valova won gold in pair skating at the 1984 Olympics, and four years later they became silver medalists. Natalya Linichuk and Gennady Karponosov - 1980 Olympic champions in ice dancing. Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov are the first Olympic champions in ice dancing in history. Innsbruck 1976. Irina Moiseeva and Andrey Minenkov are silver medalists of the 1976 Olympics, the first at which dances were included in the program of the Games, and bronze medalists for the next 1980 Olympics. Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov - two-time Olympic champions in pair skating (1964, 1968) Olympic champions in pair figure skating Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov. X Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble. Tamara Moskvina and Alexey Mishin were only fifth at the 1968 Olympics. But Mishin later coached three Olympic champions (Urmanov, Yagudin, Plushenko), and Moskvina trained in pairs, who also collected a whole scattering of gold Olympic awards (Berezhnaya / Sikharulidze, Kazakova / Dmitriev, Valova / Vasiliev)sportzur.com
Our Olympic Gold: Winter Games Champions - Figure Skating ...
The first champion in the performance of special figures in the history of the Winter Olympic Games was Nikolai Panin-Kolomenkin in 1908 in London. With his victory in figure skating, the history of our Olympic victories began. Our skaters opened the next victory page only in 1964 in Innsbruck, showing the highest class of the Russian school.
Figure skating is the most beloved and spectacular sport. With what impatience they awaited the television broadcasts of the performances of the best skaters in the world. The whole country froze at the TV screens, "rooting" for our athletes. There were meteoric ups and downs, but our figure skating school remains the strongest in the world. Let's remember the names of our Olympic champions in the most beautiful winter sport ...
IX Olympic winter Games 1964 in Innsbruck
The first gold medals in the history of figure skating were brought to the Soviet team by Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov.
At the games in Innsbruck, they were ahead of the strongest couples in the world. The most graceful, strongest, most romantic pair of all skating pairs on ice. They are still together and still go out on the ice. Last year, Oleg Protopopov celebrated his 80th birthday, together with Lyudmila on the ice.
X Olympic Winter Games 1968 in Grenoble
4 years later, Belousova and Protopopov again climbed to the first step of the podium, confirming their success at the previous Olympic Games. Our duet Tatyana Zhuk and Alexander Gorelik, who became silver medalists of the Olympics in Grenoble, also fought for the championship with them.
XI Olympic Winter Games 1972 in Sapporo
Games in Sapporo became the beginning of the star path of our legend in sports pair skating Irina Rodnina. Together with her first partner Alexei Ulanov, she won her first Olympic gold medal.
Our athletes - Lyudmila Smirnova, Andrey Suraikin - also became silver medalists. The first silver appeared in men's single skating. It was won in the fight against the 1971 world champion Slovak Ondrej Nepele.
XII Olympic Winter Games 1976 in Innsbruck
For the first time, ice dancing was included in the competition program at the Olympics in Innsbruck. And the first gold in this kind of figure skating became ours! The brilliant couple Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov showed the highest skill and brought the "gold" to our team. "Silver" also went to our piggy bank of Olympic awards thanks to Andrei Minenkov and Irina Moiseeva.
In pair skating, the second "gold" was won by Irina Rodnina, paired with Alexander Zaitsev. It's even hard to imagine that after her first Olympics, Rodnina almost left the big sport.
Again, ours was the "silver" in men's single skating - Vladimir Kovalev became the winner.
In the women's single skating, our team was left without awards, but we can't remember the name of the youngest participant winter olympiads in their entire 90-year history is impossible! And not just the name. But also marks of 5.9 for the execution of the free program and her famous three triple jumps during her.
XIII Olympic Winter Games 1980 in Lake Placid
Pair skating. Our couples again won gold and silver awards: Irina Rodnina - Alexander Zaitsev and Marina Cherkasova - Sergei Shakhrai. For Irina Rodnina, this is already the third highest Olympic award. The whole world was surrounded by shots, where on the first step of the pedestal, Rodnina's tears flowed to the sound of the anthem of our country. Tears of pride, tears of happiness…. Just a year before the Olympics, Irina and Alexander missed the world championship, but the reason was the most joyful - the birth of a son, one more, though not Olympic victory... And here they are again - the best. And how the American fans were waiting for the "Gold", because it was their "home Olympics"! It was not even the performance of our brilliant pair that broke the American pair, but 15 minutes of Rodnina and Zaitsev's presence at the training session, who showed the opponents the undeniable superiority of our pair. As a result, the American couple withdrew from the competition, unable to withstand the psychological stress.
The "Silver Couple" became world champions the same year, and Marina was only 15 years old at the time of the Olympic Games!
In ice dancing, the Olympic "gold" was won by Gennady Karponosov and Natalya Linichuk (students of Elena Tchaikovskaya), who brilliantly performed not only the obligatory dances, but also the incendiary "Lezginka". “Bronze” went to Andrei Minenkov and Irina Moiseeva.
XIV Olympic Winter Games 1984 in Sarajevo
The Sarajevo Winter Games brought the first Olympic medal in women's singles skating. Kira Ivanova, after a two-year disqualification, was able to win a bronze medal in a tough fight with titled rivals.
In pair skating, gold medals were won by Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, who made their debut at the World Championship a year before the Olympics and won a sensational victory. Their gold medals at the Sarajevo Olympics showed that this was no coincidence.
In ice dancing, Natalya Bestemyanova and Andrei Bukin became silver medals, and Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko added bronze medals to the Olympic treasury. Oh, how upset and bewilderment our fans felt when our couple got lower marks compared to Jane Torvel and Christopher Dean. And what a delight the third place caused, which became sensational for us.
XV Olympic Winter Games 1988 in Calgary
Among sports couples, the first were our Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergey Grinkov, who snatched the victory from our own pair, the Olympic champions of Sarajevo Elena Valovoy and Oleg Vasiliev. This is the seventh "gold" in sports pair skating in a row since the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck. It is noteworthy that Gordeeva and Grinkov started out as singles, but they decided to pair them.
The pinnacle of their sports career was the Olympic gold medals of Natalia Bestemyanova and Andrei Bukin. Marina Klimova and Sergey Ponomarenko became silver medalists.
An unexpected and all the more outstanding was the victory of Viktor Petrenko, an 18-year-old figure skater from Odessa, who originally planned to enter the top six.
XVI Olympic Winter Games 1992 in Albertville
For the first time at the Olympic Games, our team played as the United Team of the countries that were formerly part of the USSR. Three top Olympic awards - an amazing result of the games in Albertville for our skaters!
As you remember, the first Olympic champion among men was Nikolai Panin-Kolomenkin back in 1908 in London, and Igor Petrenko became the second at the Albertville Olympics. Gold awards, one might say, according to the established tradition, were won by our couple - students of Tamara Moskvina Natalia Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitriev, who performed an exceptionally technical and harmonious program to the magic music of Franz Liszt. "Silver" was won by Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, who also trained with Moskvina.
Before the 1992 Olympics Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, the "silver couple" in ice dancing at the last Olympiad, passed to Tatyana Anatolyevna Tarasova, who added original choreography to the excellent technique they had worked out with their first coach Natalia Dubova. Their spectacular new program earned them the long-awaited Olympic gold medal. Maya Usova and Alexander Zhulin, students of Natalia Dubova, became bronze medalists.
XVII Olympic Winter Games 1994 in Lillehammer
At the 1994 Olympic Winter Games, Russia played as an independent team for the first time and again became three times gold.
In men's single skating, the "golden" performance was the performance of Alexei Urmanov, who completed the maximum number of triple jumps. Ice dancing brought our team gold and silver medals. Oksana Grischuk and Evgeny Platov became Olympic champions, and Maya Usova and Alexander Zhulin became silver medalists.
The return to "amateurs" from professional ice ballet was triumphant for Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov - they became two-time Olympic champions!
XVIII Olympic Winter Games 1998 in Nagano
The first gold medal in figure skating in Nagano was the medal of Ilya Kulik, the only one of all the participants in the competition who not only perfectly completed all the elements of the program, but also took a big risk - a jump in 4 turns, which no one could then do.
Among sports couples, the main struggle was between our duets - the experienced Arthur Dmitriev with the new partner Oksana Kazakova and the young duet Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze. A German couple competed with them. However, only Dmitriev and Kazakova skated their program flawlessly, having won the 10th Olympic gold medal for their team in this type of figure skating.
Ice dancing became a real sensation - for the second time in a row Oksana Grischuk and Evgeny Platov became Olympic champions, showing real professionalism and endurance. Our couple Angelica Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov also became silver medalists.
XIX Olympic Winter Games 2002 in Salt Lake City
Games in Salt Lake City were full of scandals. Not without a misunderstanding in figure skating. Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze won gold medals in pair skating, but the judges decided to share their championship with the Canadian pair, the Canadian pair D. Sale and D. Peletier. For the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics in pair skating, a second set of medals was awarded 5 days after the competition.
The fate of gold medals in women's singles and ice dancing was decided by just one judge's vote, which, alas, was not in our favor. Silver medalists were Ilya Averbukh and Irina Lobacheva and Irina Slutskaya.
In men's single skating, the first two steps of the podium were taken by our figure skaters: Alekse Yagudin (gold) and Evgeni Plushenko (silver).
XX Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin
And again triple gold! Two-time world champions, five-time European champions, three-time Russian champions, Tatyana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin became Olympic champions in pair skating. For the fourth Olympiad in a row, gold in men's singles skating has been on the account of our team - the three-time world champion and six-time European champion Evgeni Plushenko became the Olympic champion. It was he who, for the first time in the history of figure skating, performed the combination of a quadruple toe loop - triple toe loop - triple rittberger.
The brilliant Russian couple Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov (two-time world champions, three-time European champions, three-time Russian champions) became champions in ice dancing.
In women's single skating, Irina Slutskaya became the bronze medalist due to an unfortunate fall.
XXI Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver
Games in Vancouver, alas, did not bring triumph to our skaters. Evgeni Plushenko became the silver medalist in men's singles skating, Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin became bronze medalists in ice dancing.
XXII Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi
Today we can already rejoice at the first gold in figure skating at the Sochi Olympics. The first team victory in the history of games! Our team has shown that there is no one stronger than our figure skating school. The team competitions were won by: Evgeni Plushenko, Yulia Lipnitskaya, sports couples Tatyana Volosozhar - Maxim Trankov and Ksenia Stolbova - Fedor Klimov, as well as dance duets Ekaterina Bobrova - Dmitry Soloviev and Elena Ilinykh - Nikita Katsalapov.
We will wait for the results of individual competitions, and "root" for our skaters!
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All Olympic champions in pair skating: olvagor
Oleg Gorban (olvagor) wrote, 2014-02-12 20:54:00 Oleg Gorbanolvagor 2014-02-12 20:54:00 Today the whole world will know the name of the new Olympic champions in pair skating. Let's hope that they will be Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, but we also wish our rivals to perform well and please us with beautiful programs. Let us recall those who already bear the title of Olympic champions. 1908. London. The first Olympic champions are the representatives of Germany Anna Huebler and Heinrich Burger.
1920. Antwerp. And the first post-war Olympic champions are Ludovica and Walter Jakobsson from Finland. At the time of the victory, by the way, the partner was 36 years old, and the partner 38 years old. 
1924. Chamonix. The first Winter Olympics were won by Helen Engelmann and Alfred Berger of Austria, leaving the reigning Olympic champions in their fifths second. 
1928. St. Moritz. At the previous Olympic Games, the French couple André Joly and Pierre Brunet were bronze medalists, and at these they won gold. Much of modern figure skating is due to this great pair. It was they who invented the mirrored step path, and they were also very creative and came up with new supports and rotations. 
1932. Lake Placid. At this Olympics, André Joly and Pierre Brunet became the first two-time Olympic champions in history. 
1936. Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Joly and Brunet did not come to this Olympics in protest against the Nazi policies of Adolf Hitler. The home Olympics were won by Germans Maxi Gerber and Ernst Bayer. At the time of the victory, the partner was a little over 15 years old. And if the legendary French nevertheless came to the Olympic Games, the German couple would still offer them worthy resistance. They are the first parallel jump performers in the world. 
1948. St. Moritz. The only gold medal in figure skating for their country was won by the Belgians Micheline Lannoy and Pierre Bonnier. 
1952. Oslo. The victory in pair skating was again celebrated by representatives of Germany - Ria and Paul Falk. By the way, they were the first in history to jump a double parallel jump. 
1956. Cortina d'Ampezzo. Austrian figure skaters have done very well in singles figure skating. At this Olympics, the time has come to finally repeat the success in pair skating. The victory was won by Elizabeth Schwartz and Kurt Oppelt. 
1960. Squaw Valley. At this Olympics, the only time in pair skating was achieved by representatives of the North American continent. Canadians Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul won. 
1964. Innsbruck. From this Olympics, a grandiose and invincible procession and total superiority of the Soviet, and then the Russian school of figure skating begins. The first victory was won by Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov. 
1968. Grenoble. This time, 2 Soviet couples claimed gold, but Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov won again, and Tatyana Zhuk and Alexander Gorelik became silver. And two-time Olympic champions, by the way, still perform in various ice shows, despite the fact that she is 78 and he is 81 years old. 
1972. Sapporo. The baton of Belousova and Protopopova was picked up by Irina Rodnina and Alexey Ulanov. After the Olympic Games, the couple broke up, as their partner married Lyudmila Smirnova, the silver medalist in these competitions, and then they continued to compete together. 
1976. Innsbruck. Irina Rodnina wanted to leave the big sport, after the breakup of the champion pair with Ulanov, but her coach Stanislav Zhuk paired her with Alexander Zaitsev, with whom she won these Olympic Games. There weren't even a few close-class couples in the world. 6.0 ratings were common for this pair. 
1980. Lake Placid. A year before, the Rodnina and Zaitsev couple had missed the season due to the birth of their son. In their absence, an American couple won the world championship, and the American media began a real persecution of the Soviet champions, accusing them of everything that only their imagination told them. The pressure was felt at the competitions, but Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev did not even give a chance to doubt that they were the best skaters in the world at that time. 
1984. Sarajevo. Soviet couples of a new generation came to the fore. The best of them were Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev. 
1988. Despite the fact that Valova and Vasiliev remained in the big sport after winning the previous Olympic Games, they no longer had a chance to win. The whole world was simply in love with the new Soviet couple, who did not know defeat in international competitions. They were Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov. Valova and Vasiliev were second. 
1992. Albertville. And again, only domestic pairs competed for the Olympic gold. In the end, Natalya Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitriev won the victory. 
1994. Lillehammer. It was from these games that professional athletes were allowed to compete at the Olympic Games. And several glorious athletes of the past decided to take advantage of this opportunity, but only one of them took gold. These were the invincible Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov. 
1998. Nagano. After the last Olympics, the couple Mishkutenok and Dmitriev, who then took 2nd place, broke up. They were unhappy with the decision international federation, but still Arthur really wanted to try on the Olympic gold medal again, and with his new partner Oksana Kazakova, in the fiercest competition with the second Russian couple Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, he made his dream come true. 
2002. Salt Lake City. The time has come to become the Olympic champions of one of the most beautiful and incomparable couples in the entire world history of figure skating, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, which they did. True, they still conceded hysterically to the North Americans begging for alms, but let's leave it on the conscience of the international federation and won't even mention these pseudo-champions. 
2006. Turin. In the last decade, the school of pair figure skating was born and developed strongly, which was able to compete with the Russian one. I'm talking about China. It was in intense competition with them that the entire Olympic cycle went through, but the main start of the four-year period was won by our Tatyana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin. 
2010. Vancouver. And now it finally happened. The number 13 became fatal for Russia, and it was for the thirteenth time in a row that the athletes of our country did not manage to win Olympic gold. And then there was not a single pair capable of competing with the Chinese. But let's agree that almost half a century of domination in the world arena means a lot. Xu Shen and Hongbo Zhao became Olympic champions. It was with them that the history of the success of Chinese athletes in figure skating began, and it would be unfair if these great skaters ended their careers without becoming Olympic champions. 
Who will be the next will become known very soon, but we can say that this will not affect the historical dominance of our skaters. Medal table in pair skating it looks like this GOLD SILVER BRONZASSSR 8 5 1 Russia 4 2 0 Germany 3 3 6 Austria 2 2 1 France 2 0 2 Canada 1 2 3 China 1 2 2 Finland 1 1 0 Belgium 1 0 0 USA 0 3 2 Great Britain 0 1 2 Hungary 0 1 0 Norway Tags , Brunet, Zhao, Joly, Zaitsev, Marinin, Olympic Games, Rodnina, Sikharulidze, Totmianina, Falk, Shen, Yakobsson, Belousova, pair skating, protopopov, figure skating, champions PhotoHint http://pics.livejournal.com/igrick/pic/000r1edq
Until 1978, none of the Soviet figure skaters managed to be on the podiums either at the Olympic Games or at the European and World Championships. AiF.ru recalls who began the heyday in Soviet and Russian women's single skating, and talks about athletes who proved that Russia has no equal in women's single skating.
Elena Vodorezova
The first Soviet single skater who managed to climb the podium in international competitions, winning medals at the European and World Championships, was Elena Vodorezova.
Elena was born on May 21, 1963 in Moscow. She began to practice figure skating at the age of 4, and from the age of 6 she trained at the CSKA school.
Led by the renowned coach Stanislav Zhuk in 1976, at the age of 12, Vodorezova became the first number of the USSR national team in women's single skating. As a teenager, the figure skater performed for the first time in the world two unique record elements:
In the last century, when our state was still called the Soviet Union, the whole world knew the names of the figure skaters - our compatriots. Oleg Protopopov and Lyudmila Belousova, Irina Rodnina, Andrey Bukin and Natalya Bestemyanova, Alexander Gorshkov and Lyudmila Pakhomova - these athletes were world-famous. Today, Russian skaters, of course, although they are not considered the best on the planet, show decent results, their performances continue the traditions of Russian ice skating. The most famous, best skaters of Russia are presented in today's article.
Figure skating history
First, a little from the history of figure skating. Skates first appeared in Holland in the 14th century, and this country is considered the birthplace of this sport. Ice skating was constantly improving, skates changed their shape. The main indicator of skill was considered the ability to draw various figures with runners and at the same time keep balance in beautiful poses. In England, in 1772, the "Treatise on Ice Skating" was published; since then, the authorship of all the main figures of ice skating has been assigned to this country. Sports historians consider Jason Heinz to be the founder of modern figure skating. This American has played a leading role in the development of the sport around the world, including in Russia.
Even under Peter I, figure skating became popular in the Russian Empire. The emperor himself brought skates from Europe. It was Peter I who had the idea to attach skates directly to the shoes, in fact, this became the prototype of modern skates. All skaters in Russia know that in 1838 the first Russian manual for skaters was published, it was compiled by Pauli. The first skating rink was opened in the Yusupov Garden in 1865. Here the skaters began to practice professionally. In 1878, the best skaters of Russia took part in the competition.
Figure skating is actively developing in Russia, some generations of champions are being replaced by others. Today our country has something to be proud of. We present the best modern representatives of this sport.
Alexey Urmanov
Male figure skaters in Russia have always been considered a strong link in our country. One of these skaters is Alexei Urmanov. The skater's homeland is Leningrad, here he was born in 1973. From an early age, his mother took him to the rink, where he began to comprehend the basics of figure skating. Alexey's first world championship took place in 1990, where he received a silver medal in junior competitions.
Since 1991, Urmanov has been a member of the Russian national team, in its composition at the national championship he won bronze. Participation in competitions in Albertville did not bring results, the guy began to train even harder to achieve the highest skill. Alexey devoted himself completely to training, and this often led to injuries. Anyone could envy the athlete's willpower. Thanks to perseverance, he became the European champion in 1997.
Thanks to Alexey Urmanov, many fans have become zealous fans of figure skating. His artistry touches many. Aleksey always turns ice skating into a small performance, where in a few minutes the audience has time to experience a lot of touching impressions.
Ilya Kulik
Ilya Kulik is a native of the capital, born in 1977. From the age of five he began to study in the group of coach Gromov. Later, Viktor Kudryavtsev became his mentor, who raised many champions.
Ilya Kulik lived up to the expectations of his coach and already in 1990 became the winner of the competition in Norway, where the most talented skaters performed. The Russian Championship among juniors in 1994 brings victory to Kulik, and he also deserves silver in the adult championship. This opened the doors for him to the national team.
In 1995, Ilya Kulik first took part in the European Championship, unexpectedly snatching victory from Urmanov. In the new season (1995-96) Ilya begins to study with Tatiana Tarasova. An experienced choreographer makes numerous adjustments to his performances, adds complex elements, including the famous triple axel, performed twice in a row. However, unable to cope with the excitement, Ilya fails the European Championship. But at the world championship, the skater manages to win silver. Kulik begins to prepare for the Olympic Games. Intensive training next season under the leadership of Tarasova gives the expected result - Olympic gold. After this triumph, Ilya switches to professional sports and continues to delight his fans.
Alexey Yagudin
Alexey Yagudin was born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) in 1980. He began skating at the age of four with the coach Alexander Mayorov, under his wing was Alexander until the age of 12. From the age of 13, the boy began to take pride of place in competitions. In 1996 he won the World Championship. In 1997, Alexey won the European Championship. At the Olympic Games in Nagano, with the participation of Russian figure skaters (men), Yagudin managed to take 5th place. Since 1998, he began to train with the famous Tatyana Tarasova. Trained in the USA, participated in many tournaments, from where he returned as a winner.
The championship, held in Vancouver, was unsuccessful for the skater. He was injured and barely managed to reach only 5th place. The fight for the champion title has not stopped. After treatment, Alexey returns to training again. His skill reached second place after Evgeni Plushenko. The next world championship brought him gold.
The Salt Lake City Olympics were a triumph. Yagudin performed brilliantly, the judges were the highest and he won. In 2002, health problems began again, and in 2007, at performances in Germany, the skater was forced to interrupt his performance due to injury.
After treatment in the United States, the athlete returned. Began to be active in show business. He performed in an ice show, starred in a TV series, and judged the KVN game.
Maxim Kovtun
Young, but already famous Maxim Kovtun was born in 1995 in Yekaterinburg. Under the mentorship of Buyanova and Tarasova, the athlete won the highest award, the Grand Prix of Beginning Talents. Has the title of Master of Sports, Champion of Russia.
Maxim's family is athletic and already from the age of 4, his father began to take him with him to a sports school. The older brothers Kovtun are also active figure skaters and participate in a variety of ice shows.
The first coach of the boy was Voitsekhovskaya. In the famous competitions, where young skaters of Russia participate, Maxim managed to win the "Crystal Horse". Already at the age of 15, the skater performed an axel in three turns. At the Olympic level among youths, he wins silver.
In 2012, under the mentorship of Tarasova and Vodorezova, Maxim took fifth place in the national championship. On international skating in Zagreb, where he was sent, he also skated fifth.
A program was specially developed for Maxim, in which he makes five jumps with four revolutions.
Evgeny Plushenko
Single skater (Russia) Evgeni Plushenko was born in the Khabarovsk Territory in 1982. As a child, he and his parents moved to Volgograd, where he began to study figure skating... For further training, the boy has to move to St. Petersburg. There he hones his skills at a sports school. In 2005, Evgeny graduated from Lesgaft University of Physical Education.
The first sporting victory was in the 1996-97 season. At the World Junior Championships, Evgeniy became the winner. Then he took third place at the World Championship, the second at the European Championship. He became the world champion in 2001 and repeated his results in 2003, 2004. Plushenko won the European Championship five times. In his sports collection he has more than a dozen gold medals.
In 2008, Eugene with Dima Bilan performs at Eurovision, here again a victory. Evgeni Plushenko leads an active social life.
Roman Kostamarov and Tatiana Navka
Famous figure skaters of Russia Roman Kostamarov and Tatiana Navka are considered one of the most beautiful and artistic couples at our skating rink. Roman and Tatiana were invited to speak by coach Linichuk. At that time, the athletes were in Delaware. For some time, their duet broke up, Roman performed with the figure skater Semenovich. But as soon as Navka returned to the ice after the birth of her daughter in 2000, the couple reunited and began to show very impressive results. In 2004 in Germany they became world champions. Then they became Olympic champions, three times became champions of Russia, the same number of times champions of Europe. The result is three-time world champions. Athletes take an active part in show business, become participants in ice shows. The novel acts in films and television projects.
Anton Sikharulidze and Elena Berezhnaya
The famous skaters of Russia Anton Sikharulidze and Elena Berezhnaya did not immediately skate together. Until 1996, Elena performed with Shlyakhov. After receiving a severe head injury, Berezhnaya was literally dying. She recovered with difficulty and went out on the ice again, learned to stand on skates again. The new partner was Anton, who supported her in everything. Together they managed to achieve incredible success. Their coach was Moskvina. Soon in Paris at the competition, the couple achieved significant success. Further victories rained down on the athletes: prizes at the Olympic Games in 1998, then in 2002. We won the Russian championships for four years in a row from 1999 to 2002.
In 2006, Sikharulidze decides to leave sports and go into business. As an amateur, he goes out on the ice anyway. Took part in television shows. Anton Sikharulidze was the head of the committee for physical culture and sports for several years.
Ilya Averbukh and Irina Lobacheva
Famous figure skaters of Russia Ilya Averbukh and Irina Lobacheva not only had a joint sports career. Lived in America. This couple was married, in which their son Martin was born. Unfortunately, after returning to Russia, the sports couple also broke up. But in the history of sports, figure skaters managed to leave a significant mark. The star couple from 1993 to 2002 became the country's champions four times, the winners of the world and European championships. They won silver at the 2002 Olympics.
Sports injuries made themselves felt, and skating gradually faded away. Returning from America, Ilya created the Ice Symphony firm. He became the organizer of the famous ice shows, television projects, so beloved by the audience. In the production sphere, he achieved high results.
Irina Slutskaya
Russian figure skater Irina Slutskaya was born in 1979 in Moscow. From the age of four she began to train at the Moskvich sports club. From the age of six, Gromov's coach began to work with her. Already in 1993, at the Russian Championship, Irina won among the juniors and became the bronze medalist at the World Championship. In Sofia in 1996 she received the European champion title.
In 1998, Irina became a participant in the Nagano Olympics and took fifth place. In 1999, Ira marries Sergei Mikheev, at the same time her sports career is going up. In all competitions, Slutskaya takes prizes, performs brilliantly in Salt Lake City.
For some time, Irina Slutskaya due to injuries retires from the sport, but soon returns and regains leadership positions. The ultimate goal is the Olympics. Figure skaters of Russia perform at the games in Turin in 2006, here Slutskaya wins bronze. This victory cost the athlete many efforts. On this she ended her sports career.
Alexey Tikhonov
Alexey was born in Samara in 1971. The first coach of the skater was Vera Birbraer. On her instructions, at the age of 16, Alexey went to Sverdlovsk, where he trained with Rennik for a year. After that, Tikhonov arrived in the capital and became a student of Zakharov. Further in the biography - life in Japan. Upon returning to his homeland, Alexei began to participate in an ice show led by Tarasova.
The first victory in 1989 - a bronze medal at the World Championship, paired with Irina Sayfutdinova. In 1998, he began to play in tandem with Petrova, a year later they became European champions, confirmed the title in 2000. At the Russian championship for four years (from 1999 to 2005) he was a silver medalist. The main victory was the gold medal of the World Championship in 2000. Repeatedly became a silver and bronze medalist at championships and Grand Prix. In 2007, the couple announced their retirement.
