"SE" represents all Russian victors XXII Olympic Winter Games
Kind of sport: figure skating
Winners: Evgeni Plushenko, Yulia Lipnitskaya, Elena Ilyinykh/Nikita Katsalapov, Tatyana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov, Ksenia Stolbova/Fyodor Klimov, Ekaterina Bobrova/Dmitry Solovyov (team tournament)
Russian national team figure skating won gold in the team tournament of the Olympic tournament, which was held for the first time at the Olympics. After eight events, the team consisting of Yulia Lipnitskaya, Evgeny Plushenko, duets of Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov, Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Solovyov, Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov scored 75 points. The second place was left for the Canadian skaters - 65 points, the third - for the US team with 60 points scored.
Kind of sport: figure skating
Winners: Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov (pair skating)
Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov became two-time Olympic champions in Sochi, winning the tournament in pair skating as well. Taking into account the short program, they scored 236.86 points (84.17 + 152.69). Another representatives of Russia - Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov (218.68) - became the silver medalists of the 2014 Games.
Kind of sport: short track
Winner: Viktor An
Russians Viktor An and Vladimir Grigoriev became the champion and vice-champion of the Olympic Games in Sochi at a distance of 1000 meters. On February 10, Ahn won bronze in the 1500 meters, which became the first ever medal for our country in short track. In 2006, at the Turin Olympics, he, speaking for Korea, became the champion at distances of 1000, 1500 m, and also in the 5000 m relay.
Kind of sport: skeleton
Winner: Alexander Tretyakov
Skeletonist Alexander Tretyakov, following the results of four races, showed a time of 3 minutes 44.29 seconds, which brought him gold medal Games. Silver went to Latvian Martins Dukurs (3:45.10), bronze went to American Matthew Antoine (3:47.26). Tretyakov's gold became the first for Russian athletes in skeleton at the Olympics: in Vancouver, Tretyakov was third.
Kind of sport: bobsled
Winners: Alexander Zubkov and Alexey Voevoda (two)
The Russian crew consisting of Alexander Zubkov and Alexey Voevoda won the competition of twos. The second place was taken by the team of Switzerland, bronze - by the USA. One more Russian team- Alexander Kasyanov and Maxim Belugin - finished fourth, 0.03 seconds behind third place.
Kind of sport: snowboard
Winner: Vic Wild
Russian Vic Wilde won gold at the Sochi Olympics in parallel giant slalom. He was 0.54 seconds behind Nevin Galmarini of Switzerland in the first of his two final runs, but won the second by 2.14 seconds. The Slovenian Jean Koshir became the bronze medalist of the Games. Recall that on the same day, Wild's wife Alena Zavarzina brought Russia another award, winning bronze in the women's competition.
Kind of sport: figure skating
Winner: Adeline Sotnikova
Russian woman Adelina Sotnikova is the Olympic champion of the 2014 Games in Sochi: this is the first ever gold in Russia in women's single skating. The winner scored 224.59 points. The second was the champion of Vancouver-2010 Korean Yuna Kim. Third - Italian Carolina Kostner. Another representative of Russia, Sochi 2014 Olympic champion in team competition Yulia Lipnitskaya is fifth.
Kind of sport: short track
Winner: Viktor An
Russian Viktor An won the gold medal of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi at a distance of 500 m. On February 15, he won the Olympic final at a distance of 1000 meters. Thus, An became a five-time Olympic champion - the first in the history of short track. He won all four disciplines - 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 m and the 5000 m relay. On the first two distances - in Sochi for Russia, on the last three - with Korea in Turin-2006.
Kind of sport: short track
Winners: Viktor An, Semyon Elistratov, Vladimir Grigoriev, Ruslan Zakharov (relay)
The Russian team (Viktor An, Semyon Elistratov, Vladimir Grigoriev, Ruslan Zakharov) won the gold medal in the 5000m relay at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi with an Olympic record. Viktor Ahn became a six-time Olympic champion in short track speed skating. Note that he already won medals in all four disciplines at the second Olympics: in Turin 2006, as part of the Korean national team, he had 3 gold (1000 m, 1500 m, relay) and 1 bronze (500 m). In Sochi, he also has 3 gold (500m, 1000m, relay) and 1 bronze (1500m). In addition, An caught up with the famous American Apolo Anton Ono in terms of the number of Olympic medals - 8 each.
Kind of sport: snowboard
Winner: Vic Wild
Russian Vic Wilde won gold at the Sochi Olympics in parallel slalom. In the first of the two final races, he beat the Slovenian Jean Koshir by 0.12 seconds, and in the second he kept this advantage. The Austrian Benjamin Karl became the bronze medalist of the Games. This gold was Wild's second in Sochi.
Kind of sport: biathlon
Winner: Alexey Volkov, Evgeny Ustyugov, Dmitry Malyshko, Anton Shipulin (relay)
Russian four won the 4x7.5 km relay. This is the first gold for domestic male biathletes in the relay race since the 1988 Olympics.
Kind of sport: ski race
Winner: Alexander Legkov
Russian skiers triumphantly completed the men's 50 km ski mass start, taking the entire podium. Alexander Legkov became the Olympic champion - his time was 1:46:55.2. Silver was won by Maxim Vylegzhanin, bronze - by Ilya Chernousov. Thus, Russia has 12 gold medals, which ensured her an early victory in the team medal standings at home Olympic Games in Sochi.
Kind of sport: bobsled
Winners: Alexander Zubkov, Alexei Negodailo, Dmitry Trunenkov, Alexei Voevoda (four)
The crew of Alexander Zubkov, consisting of Alexei Negodailo, Dmitry Trunenkov and Alexei Voevoda, won gold medals at the Sochi Olympics in the four-man competition. For Zubkov and Voyevoda, this is the second gold medal of the 2014 Games - they had previously won the competition of twos. The second place in the tournament of fours was taken by Latvia, bronze - by the USA. The crew of Alexander Kasyanov finished fourth, 0.03 seconds behind third place. Bobsledders brought Russia 13th gold and helped to consolidate leadership in the team standings both in terms of the number of medals the highest standard, as well as in total. Russia repeated the record of the USSR team in 1976 in Innsbruck in terms of the number of gold medals. The total number of medals has now reached 33: 13 gold, 11 silver and 9 bronze.
26 RUSSIANS - OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS OF SOCHI-2014
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Viktor An |
short track |
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Alexey VOEVODA |
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Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR |
figure skating |
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Alexander ZUBKOV |
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Maxim TRANKOV |
figure skating |
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Vic WILDE |
snowboard |
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Ekaterina BOBROVA |
figure skating |
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Alexey VOLKOV |
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Vladimir GRIGORIEV |
short track |
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Semyon ELISTRATOV |
short track |
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Ruslan ZAKHAROV |
short track |
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Elena ILINIKH |
figure skating |
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Nikita KATSALAPOV |
figure skating |
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Fedor KLIMOV |
figure skating |
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Alexander LEGKOV |
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Julia Lipnitskaya |
figure skating |
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Dmitry MALYSHKO |
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Alexey NEGODAYLO |
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Evgeny Plushenko |
figure skating |
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Dmitry SOLOVIEV |
figure skating |
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Adeline Sotnikova |
figure skating |
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Ksenia STOLBOVA |
figure skating |
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Alexander Tretyakov |
skeleton |
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Dmitry TRUNENKOV |
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Evgeny USTYUGOV |
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Anton Shipulin |
Today, the history of Soviet and Russian figure skating continues - winners and world champions in women's singles.
A few words from history regarding world championships. Today, men and women compete in world championships on absolutely equal terms in terms of participation in world championships, but initially only men took part in the world championships. In the very early years (late 19th and early 20th centuries), women were not allowed to participate in world competitions, although local competitions, in which both women and couples participated, began to be held sometime in the 1870s. One of the reasons for the non-participation of women was clothing - long skirts and dresses that did not allow complex movements on the ice. Since 1902, figure skater Madge Sayers (Great Britain) took part in the 1902 World Championship and competed against men. The winner of this championship was Ulrich Salkow, and Medge was second by a wide margin, beating Martin Gordon (Germany) and Horace Torrome, an Argentinian by origin, permanently residing in England. Salkov was so impressed with Sayers' performance that he presented her with his champion's gold medal.
The first women's world championship was held in 1906 in Davos. The winner was the same Medj Sayers, and the second - Jenny Hertz (Austria), who performed the spin in the "sitting" position in the spinning top for the first time. Sayers retained her title in 1907, defeating Hertz again.
As for the participants from the USSR, for the first time among our participants, Elena Vodorezova, who won a bronze medal at the 1983 World Championship, managed to enter the podium of the world championship. And the first world champion in the history of Soviet and Russian figure skating was Maria Butyrskaya in 1999.
And now, all the champions and medalists of the world championships among girls. The titles of the skaters are not all indicated, but related to achievements in world championships.
Bronze medalist at the 1983 World Championships.
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Silver medalist at the 1984 World Championship.
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Silver medalist at the 1985 World Championships.
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Bronze medalist of the world championships in 1996, silver medalist of the world championships in 1998, 2000, 2001, two-time world champion in 2002 and 2005.
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Bronze medalist at the 1999 World Championship.
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Bronze medalist of the World Championships in 1998, 2000, World Champion in 1999.
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Silver medalist at the 2003 World Championship.
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8. Alena Leonova.
Silver medalist at the 2012 World Championship.
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Silver medalist at the 2014 World Championship.
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World Champion 2015.
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Bronze medalist at the 2015 World Championship
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Bronze medalist at the 2016 World Championship
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Two-time world champion in 2016 and 2017.
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Here are all the skaters - winners and prize-winners of world championships. Our history, which will certainly be replenished with new names.
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The material is partially used from the book: Absalyamova I.V. Centenary history of the world championships in figure skating (single skating): Proc. manual for students acad. and in-s nat. cult. / RGAFK. - M.: FON, 1997
Women's figure skating variety speed skating , the essence of which lies in the skill performance on ice of a number of geometric figures(paragraphs, eights and circles).
And also a whole complex additional elements during the movements of the skater to the musical accompaniment.
How did the history of figure skating among women begin?
A real breakthrough in women's figure skating occurs only in 1901.
Under pressure from fans of this sport ISU committee as an exception allows Englishwoman Madge Sayers join to male composition participants.
As a result, the skater gets silver of the 1902 world championship.
The organizers remove the prohibited item from the Rules, and already in 1906 Switzerland holds the first official world championship in women's figure skating.
Judges leave the same for both men and women all 12 required figures at competitions. But the championship among single skaters showed how much more artistically graceful the female performance of the figure skating program looks, unlike the male one.
After World War I
In the post-war period, a real star among single skaters becomes Herma Sabo from Austria. From 1922 to 1926 she four times in a row wins the world championship title.
But already since 1928 in the field of women's figure skating, a Norwegian makes a splash Sonya Henie. The figure skater wins the European Championships six times, becomes a three-time Olympic champion and 10 times gold medals at the world championships.
It was after championship in 1928 America showed its genuine interest in figure skating and offered the ISU Council to host the next figure skating competitions on its territory.
At the Council, the proposal was considered in detail, approved and in 1930 in New York on the largest indoor ice rink took place first World Figure Skating Championships where women, men and couples competed at the same time.
Despite the small number of participants 6 women and 8 men) competitions were held with great success and gathered the maximum number of spectators.
First place then awarded Sonia Henie, on the second turned out Cecile Smith from Canada, And third place went to an American Maribel Vinson.
The total number of participants in the World Figure Skating Championships 1936 in Berlin is already 47 people who represent 14 countries. Two very serious rivals of Sony Henie appear at once - Madjen Taylor and Cecilia College.
Subsequently, they both become world champions in women's single skating, and in 1938 competitions will be held in which they will converge as the strongest competitors. Madzhen Taylor will win this fight for the title, but after that, the society will discuss the bias of the judges' assessments for a long time.
In 1939 Prague holds last championship world in women's figure skating until the outbreak of World War II. Cecilia's serious injury prevents the College from attending, resulting in Madjen Taylor gets his again second gold medal.
The first real glory for the USSR: photo
At the European Championship in 1976 and the Winter Olympics of the same year, 12-year-old schoolgirl Elena Vodorezova brings the Soviet Union first triumphant success.
The double flip technique provided for its execution first in a cascade of two jumps.
Photo 1. Figure skater Elena Vodorezova on international competitions in figure skating in 1975.
Vodorezova performs combination double flip-triple toe loop and combination double jump-triple jump for the first time throughout the history of figure skating. The judges, under the impression, give her the highest record marks.
BUT since 1984 a new name appears on the international scene single athlete Kira Ivanova. At the European and World Championships, she receives silver medals and from that moment on she is established as a brilliant master in the performance of compulsory figures.
It is impossible not to recall the merits of another brilliant athlete of the Soviet Union - the most titled figure skater Irina Rodnina. In pair skating for 11 times she took first place in the European Championships, of which 10 gold medals received a contract.
Photo 2. Irina Rodnina and her partner Alexander Zaitsev at the 1980 European Figure Skating Championships in Sweden.
Russia is still famous for the merits of post-Soviet athletes Irina Slutskaya and Maria Butyrskaya. In 1999 Butyrskaya became first from Russian women the world champion in single skating after the perfect execution of the cascade triple sheepskin coat-oiler-triple salchow. And Slutskaya - first in the world who succeeded in a brilliant performance of the triple lutz-triple rittberger cascade in 2000.
Photo 3. Athlete Irina Slutskaya at the World Figure Skating Championships in 2005.
To date throughout history single skating Russian woman among women Yulia Lipnitskaya was the first to win in Sochi in 2014 Olympic gold for the history of Russia.
She ended her sports career in September 2017 Her most worthy competitor Adeline Sotnikova due to injury misses the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, and few figure skating professionals today believe in her return to the ice.
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Structure and Rules for Women's Singles
The competition scheme includes the initial performance of the short program, after which, depending on its outcome, 24 best female athletes perform free program. At the European and World Championships, when the number of participants exceeds allowable rate of 24 people, they are divided into two groups: morning and evening.
Part morning group includes athletes with lower ISU rating. The order of their performances is determined by a simple draw. In the evening group there are skaters with a high rating.
In order to avoid a systematic excess of the number of participants in the European and World Championships since 2012. only athletes are allowed to participate, who have reached the required technical minimum in short and free programs.
As such a minimum, there may be any results of international competitions under the auspices of the ISU in the previous two seasons and make up:
- to participate in the European Championship: short program 20 points arbitrary - 36;
- World Championships: short program 26 points arbitrary - 46.
The overall score is calculated using summation of these two indicators.
Short and free programs: what is it
Short program should not exceed in time 2 minutes. 50 sec. During this time, the athlete should show her skills in performing eight essential elements in any convenient sequence: several types of spins, 1 combination of jumps, double (triple) axel, triple (quadruple) jump and 2 step sequences. For failure to fulfill at least one from the elements follows a penalty.
free program in duration is 4 minutes. Here the skaters include those most difficult elements for which the judges give the maximum number of points in case of impeccable performance (all kinds of rotations, spirals and jumps). Great attention is paid to the skill to connect movements with music, plasticity and artistry.
One of the strict rules in figure skating is complete ban on participation in the European Championships, the World Championships and the Olympic Games for professional figure skaters.
Basic elements of an individual program for girls
Steps and their varieties:
Basically, the steps are the connecting elements and help to gain speed before the jump.
Spiral and rotation
Spiral- long slip on the edge of the skate of one leg with the second raised to the limit, which allows stretching. Often referred to as a spiral "Martin". The elements are similar to spirals. "boat" and "bauer": the skater on both legs slides the inner or outer edges of the skates.
Photo 1. Spiral with the "bauer" element performed by the Russian Olympic champion Yulia Lipnitskaya.
Rotations imply an impressive number of variations, the most obligatory of which is rotation standing, sitting, slope, camel and bilman. Each of these spins can be performed with a change of foot or with a jump entry. Such variants of performance are always evaluated by judges higher.
jumping
jumping divided by professionals into two main groups: costal(repulsion from the edge of the skate) and toothed(push from the sock). In the program, the athlete must show six varieties jump:
- lutz;
- flip;
- salchow;
- axel (single / double / triple);
- rittberger;
- sheepskin coat.
Grading system
The performance of the figure skater is evaluated by the judging commission, which includes: the chief referee, nine referees, a technical specialist and his assistant, as well as a technical controller.
Each individual element is assigned its own score for the technique.
In addition, the following are evaluated on a ten-point scale: five components:
- choreography;
- expressiveness;
- rental;
- connecting elements;
- a basic level of skating.
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| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
| 1908 LondonUK UKReport | Ulrich SalchowSweden | Rikard Johansson, Sweden | Per TorenSweden |
| 1920 Antwerp Belgium Belgium Report | Gillis GrafströmSweden | Andreas KrogNorway | Martin StixrudNorway |
| 1924 ChamonixFrance FranceReport | Gillis GrafströmSweden | Willy BöcklAustria | Georges Gauci Switzerland |
| 1928 St. MoritzSwitzerland SwitzerlandReport | Gillis GrafströmSweden | Willy BöcklAustria | Robert van Zebroeck Belgium |
| 1932 Lake PlacidUSA USAReport | Karl SchaeferAustria | Gillis GrafströmSweden | Bud WilsonCanada |
| 1936 Garmisch-PartenkirchenGermany GermanyReport | Karl SchaeferAustria | Ernst BaierGermany | Felix KasparAustria |
| 1948 St. MoritzSwitzerland SwitzerlandReport | Richard Button US | Hans Gerschwiler Switzerland | Edi RadaAustria |
| 1952 Oslo Norway Norway | Richard Button US | Helmut SeibtAustria | 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 DivinCzechoslovakia | Donald JacksonCanada |
| 1964 InnsbruckAustria Austria | Manfred Schnelldorfer United German Team | Alain CalmatFrance | Scott Allen USA |
| 1968 GrenobleFrance France | Wolfgang SchwartzAustria | Tim WoodUSA | Patrick PeraFrance |
| 1972 SapporoJapan Japan | Ondrej NepelaCzechoslovakia | Sergei ChetverukhinUSSR | Patrick PeraFrance |
| 1976 InnsbruckAustria Austria | John CurryGreat Britain | Vladimir KovalevUSSR | Toler CranstonCanada |
| 1980 Lake Placid USA USA | Robin CousinsGreat Britain | Jan HoffmanGDR | Charles Tickner USA |
| 1984 Sarajevo Yugoslavia Yugoslavia | Scott Hamilton USA | Brian OrserCanada | Josef Sabovchik Czechoslovakia |
| 1988 CalgaryCanada Canada | Brian Boitano USA | Brian OrserCanada | Viktor PetrenkoUSSR |
| 1992 Albertville France France | Victor PetrenkoJoint team | Paul Wylie USA | Petr BarnaCzechoslovakia |
| 1994 Lillehammer Norway Norway | Alexey UrmanovRussia | Elvis StojkoCanada | Philip Candeloro France |
| 1998 Nagano Japan Japan | Ilya KulikRussia | Elvis StojkoCanada | Philip Candeloro France |
| 2002 Salt Lake City USA USA | Alexey YagudinRussia | Evgeni PlushenkoRussia | Timothy Gable USA |
| 2006 Turin Italy Italy | Evgeni PlushenkoRussia | Stephane LambielSwitzerland | Geoffrey BattleCanada |
| 2010 VancouverCanada Canada | Evan Lysacek USA | Evgeni PlushenkoRussia | Daisuke Takahashi Japan |
| 2014 SochiRussia Russia | Yuzuru Hanyu Japan | Patrick ChanCanada | Denis TenKazakhstan |
| 2018 Pyeongchang Republic of Korea Republic of Korea | Yuzuru Hanyu Japan | Shoma UnoJapan | Javier FernandezSpain |
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Famous figure skaters of Russia, Olympic champions
Figure skating Today it 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 13th-14th centuries in Holland, which is why it is considered the ancestor of figure skating.
After the advent of skates of a fundamentally new type, popularity also came, which incredibly contributed to the rapid development of this sport, which in those days was reduced to drawing various figures on the ice without losing a beautiful pose.
The first set of rules for figure skating was published in England in 1772 and was called the Treatise on Skating. It described all the main figures known at that time. Thus, the UK has secured the authorship of all figures required in figure skating. In addition, in 1742 the first circles of skaters appeared here, the official rules for holding competitions were developed and approved.
The founder of the modern style of figure skating, sports historians unanimously recognize the American Jason Heinz. It was he who played the main role in its distribution throughout the world, and, in particular, in Russia.
Development of figure skating in Russia
In the Russian Empire, figure skating was very popular back in the time of Peter I, who brought the first samples of skates from Europe. It is noteworthy that the Russian emperor was the first who came up with the idea of fastening skates directly to shoes and created, in fact, the prototype of modern skates.
The first Russian manual for skaters was published in 1838 in St. Petersburg and was called " Winter fun and the art of skating”, compiled by the gymnastics teacher of the military educational institution G.M. Pauli.
Figure skating itself appeared in Russia in 1865, and at the same time the first ice 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 in Russia began to appear at the end of the 19th century. The pioneer who took part in international competitions was A.P. Lebedev, who was a lawyer by training.
Nikolai Poduskov became a member of the first official competition, which was held in 1896 and took 4th place in single skating, but on open championship Russia in 1901 has already taken the last place.
Georgy Sanders, who takes part in the same competitions as Poduskov, took 3rd place, becoming a bronze medalist. In addition, he was the first to perform complex figures, of which he was the author, which in turn helped another famous Russian figure skater, Nikolai Panin, who performed them at the 1908 Olympics in London, 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 Championships, silver at the World Championships in Calgary (1972) and Bratislava (1973) and bronze at the European Championships in 1969 year) and Sergey Volkov (in 1975 - world champion, champion of the USSR in 1974 and 1976).
Notable Russian male figure skaters in singles
Famous Russian figure skaters have repeatedly become champions and won prizes in various 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, a multiple medalist and champion of the USSR, Russia and European champion, Olympic champion in 1994.
At the 1998 Olympics, Russia again got the gold medal in men's single skating, which was won by Ilya Kulik. In addition to the highest Olympic award, in the arsenal of this famous Russian figure skater there is the “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 European and world champion, winner of the Grand Prix finals in figure skating. 
No less famous is the young single skater Maxim Kovtun, who has several serious victories to his credit. He is a three-time winner of the Russian Championship, took silver at the 2015 European Championship.
The most famous and titled figure skater in Russia and around the world is Evgeni Plushenko. He is the owner of the gold medals of two Olympics (2006 - in singles, 2014 - in team skating), twice took the "silver" of the Olympic Games. Plushenko 3 times won the title of world champion, seven times - the champion of Europe and as many as 10 times - the championship of Russia. He also has many other awards and titles. 
Plushenko has a number sports achievements, and his hallmark was the performance of the most difficult figures of single skating at competitions. He has no equal.
Russian male figure skaters are rightfully considered among the best in the world.
Famous Russian female single skaters
Unfortunately, women's single skating in Russia cannot boast a long history of performances and awards in this sport.
The history of victories began only in 1976 with the advent of figure skater Elena Vodorezova. It was she who won the first awards at the European Championships, and later became the third at the World Championships.
the first Olympic medal- "bronze" - was won by 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 European Championship in 1996. And already in 1999, also at the European Championships, Maria Butyrskaya, Soldatova and Volchkova won all the awards. In the same year, Butyrskaya brought the "gold" of the World Championship.
Despite the fact that the best Russian figure skaters Maria Butyrskaya and Irina Slutskaya no longer perform, they are the most famous and legendary figure skaters in Russia to this day.
The current leaders in Russian women's singles 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, twice won silver at the European Championships. 
Figure skating experts call Adelina 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 the team event. In addition, she has awards of various merits at the World and European Championships, including junior ones.
Yulia is now 17 years old, Adeline is 19, and behind them is the future of women's single skating in Russia.
The best in pair skating
Russia in pair skating for titles, regalia and world famous athletes lucky much more than in singles.
Russian pair skaters by name and faces are known even to those who are very far from the world of sports.
Our couple Oleg Protopopov and Lyudmila Belousova won the first Olympic "gold" back in 1964, again in 1968. They are the author of many elements that are still included in the mandatory program of performances all over the world to this day. At that time, this pair was the only one who skated in a way that no one else could.
The next couple to conquer the Olympics were Alexei Ulanov and Irina Rodnina in 1972. The next gold Irina Rodnina won already in tandem with Alexander Zaitsev in 1976 and 1980.
The most famous figure skaters in Russia - Olympic champions in pair skating it is:
Anton Sikharulidze and Elena Berezhnaya;
Maxim Marinin and Tatyana Totmyanina;
Roman Kostomarov and Tatyana Navka.
The leaders of pair skating today are the Russian skaters Maxim Trankov and Tatyana Volosozhar, who already have 2 Olympic gold medals (in pair skating and in team competitions) and they are not going to stop there. 
The best couples in ice dancing
Sports dancing on ice as a separate discipline was included in the program of international competitions only in 1950.
In this program, Russia (then still Soviet Union) was represented by the famous couple Alexander Gorshkov and Lyudmila Pakhomova, who set the tone in 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 the gold medalists of the 1994 and 1998 Olympics, which made them record holders in this sport.
A couple of Maxim Shabalin and Oksana Domnina are known, among whose achievements are the bronze of the 2010 Olympics, double gold of the European Championships and the 2009 world champions.
One of the most famous young dancers, Nikita Katsalapov and Elena Ilyinykh, brought Olympic gold, silver and bronze medals from the European and Russian championships to Russia's medal treasury. The couple broke up after the Sochi Olympics in 2014.
To date, the best, strongest and famous figure skaters Russia in ice dancing - Dmitry Solovyov and Ekaterina Bobrova - champions of Europe and Russia.
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Outstanding Olympic champions in figure skating of different years
One of the most beautiful and difficult sports is figure skating. The Olympics is a particularly difficult and exciting test for an athlete. Many people like to watch the performances of figure skaters at the Olympic Games. But few people think that hard and everyday work of athletes is behind this beautiful bewitching spectacle. How much pain, sweat, failures and tears you have to endure! And how hard the coveted gold is given. 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 are known all over the world. But not everyone knows that women's single skating was born only in 1906. It was then that they began to hold single competitions for men and women. And in 1908, women's single skating was included in the Olympics program.
The first Olympic champions in figure skating
The first Olympic champion in women's singles in 1908 is the Englishwoman Meydzh Syers. She is truly an outstanding athlete. She began her performances as early as 1901, when women's singles were not allowed at all, so she participated in men's. Moreover, she became the world champion twice - 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 Sonya Henie, who won all the competitions and the Olympics from 1927 to 1936. It was she who was the first woman who managed to master a single axel. These outstanding representatives of the fair sex are the first Olympic champions in figure skating.
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 classes. Not surprisingly, the next figure skating champion was a Canadian citizen. At the games in 1948, Barbara Ann Scott receives Olympic gold. One of her achievements was the first in singles women's skating double lutz made by her in 1942.
The 1952 Olympic gold goes to Genette Alvegg of Great Britain. She was the world champion in 1951. At that time, artistry was less appreciated, and Genette's performances were always distinguished by a clear, perfect execution jumps and other mandatory elements. This set it apart from its main competitors. It is noteworthy that the gold of the Olympics again fell into the hands of an Englishwoman.
American stage in women's figure skating
At this stage, American women do not release gold and silver medals from their hands. At the 1956 Olympics, Tenley Albright becomes the winner. The next Olympic champion in figure skating in 1960 is her compatriot Carol Heiss, who had previously been a silver medalist in the competition.
The Americans established their own recognizable style of skating, which was distinguished by flexibility, plasticity, clarity of movements, spectacular choreography, as well as high-quality and technical performance of the required elements. This style continued to show 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 Shuba, who performed the compulsory figures with highest quality and was the only one who received a score above 5 points for technique. This brought her the coveted Olympic gold in 1972.
The triumph of German figure skaters
Olympic figure skating champions from Germany also made a significant contribution to the history of this sport. In the 80s, athletes from the GDR declared themselves. These were strong skaters who brought an innovative powerful sporty style. At the same time, the artistic abilities of these girls were at a fairly high level.
At the 1980 Olympics, gold goes to Anette Petch. And after her, her compatriot Katarina Witt leads two Olympics - in 1984 and 1988. This athlete was distinguished by perfect performance technical elements and well-organized programs.
A new stage in women's figure skating
Olympic gold returns to American women again in 1992. It was brought to the country by Kristi Yamaguchi. She is known for winning the US Championships twice: in singles and in pairs figure skating.
Ukrainian citizen becomes Olympic champion in 1994 Oksana Baiul. This figure skater impressed the audience and judges with her excellent technique of performing elements and a very emotional performance.
Once again, the Americans are on top. The 1998 Games bring gold to Tara Lipinski, who became the youngest Olympic champion in individual disciplines. Sarah Hughes wins in 2002, thanks to a record number of complex elements and jumps in the free program.
In Turin, the American school of figure skating takes an honorable second place. Silver goes to American Sasha Cohen. And the first place is awarded to the Japanese Shizuke Arakawa. This is the first Japanese athlete in women's skating to become an Olympic champion.
The next outstanding figure skater is a girl from South Korea. Kim Young Ah received all the top titles, which no figure skater had been able to do before. She won gold at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, won the Four Continents Championship, became the World Champion and was the leader of the Grand Prix Final.
Olympics in Sochi
An important stage in the history of figure skating is the Sochi Olympics. Figure skating acquires a valuable innovation. For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, a team classification is held. Gold in it is received by figure skaters from Russia. The young figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya participates in this standings and becomes the youngest Olympic champion. But in the individual standings, Yulia was not lucky, and she becomes only the fifth.
The gold still goes to Russia. In the individual competition, the winner is Adelina Sotnikova - another young Russian woman who impressed everyone with her amazing performance in terms of technique, artistry and emotions. Olympic figure skating champions such as Adelina and Yulia receive the first gold medals for Russia in women's singles. 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
Figure skating has always been for Russia the kind that brought a lot of Olympic gold. In anticipation of the triumph of our team in the team competition in Sochi, we recall the most important victories won by Russian and Soviet skaters on Olympic ice, - in the Sport Mail.Ru photo gallery. Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov at the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo, where they became champions. Irina Rodnina and Alexey Ulanov - 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 Placid 1980. Irina Rodnina - already a three-time Olympic champion in pair skating, Alexander Zaitsev - two-time champion. Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin are world champions in ice dancing. They won bronze medals at the Vancouver Olympics. According to one of the opinions, the couple could not compete for another 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 during the compulsory dance. After Canadian Games the couple ended their careers due to knee problems with their partner. Evgeni Plushenko won his second silver medal at the Vancouver Games. Yuko Kawaguchi and Alexander Smirnov are 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, has always aroused sympathy for the couple among the fans. The more insulting was their fourth place at the Vancouver Olympics. But even more offensive for the athletes was the fact that Sochi Games they concede due to Alexander's severe injury. Evgeni Plushenko in 2002 became the silver medalist of the Games in Salt Lake City. 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 of the 2002 Olympic Games, bronze medalist of 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 Salt Lake City Olympics, Irina Slutskaya took second place, losing by one refereeing 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 single skating at the 1998 Games Ilya Kulik. Shortly after this victory, he ended his career. And heroes are sometimes inexperienced: Alexei Yagudin was fifth at the Nagano Olympics. In 2002, the whole world watched what this young man was doing on the ice. His "Winter" and "The Man in the Iron Mask" conquered everyone. After the winning performance, he sincerely and very emotionally sobbed - the winners are allowed to do this. So Alexei 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.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, it was decided to award the second set of gold awards - they were received by Canadian figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier. Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze are a couple in which the partner had to be taught to walk again a couple of years before the silver medal in the Nagano Olympics. From Japan they will come as vice champions, and four years later, in Salt Lake City, they will win the champion title in pair skating. Yekaterina Gordeeva and Sergey Grinkov are the 1994 champions in pair skating at Lillehammer.ZoomAlexey Urmanov is the 1994 Olympic champion in men's single skating. Oksana Grischuk and Evgeny Platov are two-time Olympic champions in ice dancing (1994, 1998). Olympic champions in sports dancing figure skaters Oksana Grischuk and Evgeny Platov on the ice. Lillehammer-1994. According to the results of the dance couples tournament of the Nagano Olympics, 5 Russians were on the podium: champions Oksana Grischuk and Evgeny Platov (center), silver medalists - Anzhelika 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 the gold that fell at the expense of France. Olympic champions in pair skating Oksana Kazakova and Artur Dmitriev took their gold at the Nagano Games. But in addition to this championship, Arthur also has the gold of Albertville-1992 paired with Natalia Mishkutenok and the silver of Lillehammer-1994 with the same partner. Oleg Vasiliev and Elena Valova won gold in pair skating at the 1984 Olympics, and four years later became silver medalists. Natalia Linichuk and Gennady Karponosov are the 1980 Olympic champions in ice dancing. Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov are the first ever Olympic champions in ice dancing. Innsbruck-1976. Irina Moiseeva and Andrey Minenkov are the silver medalists of the 1976 Olympics, the first in which dancing was included in the program of the Games, and the bronze medalists of the next 1980 Olympics. Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov - two-time Olympic champions in pair skating (1964, 1968) Olympic champions in pair skating Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov. X Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble. Tamara Moskvina and Alexei Mishin were only fifth at the 1968 Olympics. But Mishin later trained three Olympic champions (Urmanov, Yagudin, Plushenko), and Moskvina trained couples who also collected a whole scattering of Olympic gold medals (Berezhnaya / Sikharulidze, Kazakova / Dmitriev, Valova / Vasiliev)sportzur.com
Our Olympic Gold: Winter Games Champions - Figure Skating...
The first champion in the history of the Winter Olympic Games in the performance of special figures 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 victorious page only in 1964 in Innsbruck, showing the highest class of the Russian school.
Figure skating is the most beloved and spectacular view sports. With what impatience we waited for broadcasts on television of the performance of the best figure skaters in the world. The whole country froze at the TV screens, "cheering" for our athletes. There were rapid rises, there were unfortunate failures, 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, the strongest, the most romantic pair of all those who performed in pair skating 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
After 4 years, Belousova and Protopopov again climbed to the first step of the podium, confirming their success at the last Olympic Games. Our duo Tatyana Zhuk and Alexander Gorelik also fought for the championship with them, who became the silver medalists of the Grenoble Olympics.
XI Olympic Winter Games 1972 in Sapporo
The Games in Sapporo became the beginning of the stellar journey of our legend in sports pair skating, Irina Rodnina. Together with her first partner Alexei Ulanov, she won her first Olympic gold medal.
Silver medalists were also our athletes - Lyudmila Smirnova, Andrei Suraikin. The first silver appeared in men's single skating. He was won in the fight against the world champion in 1971, the Slovak Ondrej Nepele.
XII Olympic Winter Games 1976 in Innsbruck
For the first time, ice dancing was included in the competition program at the Innsbruck Olympics. And the first gold in this type of figure skating became ours! A brilliant couple Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov showed the highest skill and brought the "gold" to our team. "Silver" also went into our treasury of Olympic awards thanks to Andrey Minenkov and Irina Moiseeva.
In pair skating, the second gold was won by Irina Rodnina in a pair with Alexander Zaitsev. It’s even hard to imagine that after her first Olympiad, Rodnina almost left big sport.
Again, ours was the "silver" in the men's single skating - the winner was Vladimir Kovalev.
In women's single skating, our team was left without awards, but it is impossible not to remember the name of the youngest participant in the Winter Olympics in their entire 90-year history! And not only the name. But also marks 5.9 for the performance of a free program and her famous three triple jumps during it.
XIII Olympic Winter Games 1980 in Lake Placid
Pair skating. Gold and silver awards were again won by our couples: Irina Rodnina - Alexander Zaitsev and Marina Cherkasova - Sergey Shakhrai. For Irina Rodnina, this is the third highest Olympic award. The whole world was surrounded by shots where Rodnina's tears flowed on the first step of the pedestal to the sounds of the anthem of our country. Tears of pride, tears of happiness... Just a year before the Olympics, Irina and Alexander missed the World Championships, but the reason was the most joyful - the birth of a son, another one, albeit 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 the presence of Rodnina and Zaitsev at the training session, which showed the rivals the undeniable superiority of our pair. As a result, the American couple withdrew from the competition, unable to withstand the psychological stress.
"Silver Pair" in the same year became world champions, and at the time of the Olympic Games, Marina was only 15 years old!
In ice dancing, the Olympic "gold" was won by Gennady Karponosov and Natalya Linichuk (students of Elena Tchaikovskaya), who brilliantly performed not only the compulsory dances, but also the incendiary "Lezginka". "Bronze" went to Andrei Minenkov and Irina Moiseeva.
XIV Olympic Winter Games 1984 in Sarajevo
The Winter Games in Sarajevo brought the first Olympic medal in women's singles. Kira Ivanova, after a two-year disqualification, was able to win a bronze award in a difficult struggle with titled rivals.
In pair skating, Elena Valovaya and Oleg Vasiliev won gold medals, who made their debut at the World Championships a year before the Olympics and won a sensational victory. Their gold medals at the Sarajevo Olympics showed that this was no accident.
In ice dancing, Natalya Bestemyanova and Andrei Bukin became silver medalists, and Marina Klimova and Sergey Ponomarenko added bronze medals to the Olympic piggy bank. Oh, how disappointed and bewildered our fans were when our couple received lower marks compared to Jane Torvel and Christopher Dean. And what delight caused the third place, which has become sensational for us.
XV Olympic Winter Games 1988 in Calgary
Among sports pairs, our Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergey Grinkov became the first, who snatched the victory from our pair, Sarajevo Olympic champions Elena Valova 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 as single skaters, but they decided to put them in pairs.
pinnacle sports career was the Olympic "gold" Natalia Bestemyanova and Andrey Bukin. Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko became silver medalists.
Unexpected and all the more outstanding was the victory of Viktor Petrenko, an 18-year-old figure skater from Odessa, who initially planned to enter the top six.
XVI Olympic Winter Games 1992 in Albertville
For the first time at the Olympic Games, our team competed as a United Team of countries that were previously part of the USSR. Three higher 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. According to the established tradition, the gold awards were won by our couple - Tamara Moskvina's students Natalya Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitriev, who performed an exceptionally technical and harmonious program to the magical music of Franz Liszt. "Silver" was won by Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov, who also trained with Moskvina.
"Silver couple" in ice dancing of the last Olympics Marina Klimova and Sergey Ponomarenko before the 1992 Olympics passed to Tatyana Anatolyevna Tarasova, who great technique, worked out by them with the first coach Natalya Dubova, added original choreography. Their new spectacular program brought them the long-awaited Olympic "gold". Bronze medalists were Maya Usova and Alexander Zhulin, students of Natalia Dubova.
XVII Olympic Winter Games 1994 in Lillehammer
At the 1994 Olympic Winter Games, Russia competed for the first time as an independent team and again became three times gold.
In men's single skating, Alexei Urmanov's performance was "gold", he 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 ballet on ice was a triumph for Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov - they became two-time Olympic champions!
XVIII Olympic Winter Games 1998 in Nagano
The first gold in figure skating in Nagano was the medal of Ilya Kulik, the only one of all the participants in the competition who not only completed all the elements of the program cleanly, but also took a big risk - a 4-turn jump, which no one could do then.
Among sports pairs, the main struggle was between our duets - the experienced Artur Dmitriev with a new partner Oksana Kazakova and the young duet Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze. They competed with a German couple. However, only Dmitriev and Kazakova skated their program flawlessly, winning the 10th Olympic gold medal for their team in this type of figure skating.
Ice dancing became a real sensation - Oksana Grischuk and Evgeny Platov became Olympic champions for the second time in a row, showing real professionalism and endurance. Our couple Anzhelika 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 misunderstanding in figure skating. Gold medals in pair skating were won by Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, but the judges decided to share their championship with the Canadian pair of Canadian pair D. Sale and D. Peletier. For the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics in pair skating, the second set of medals was awarded 5 days after the competition.
The fate of the gold medals in women's singles and ice dancing was decided by just one judge's vote, cast, alas, 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 skaters: Alexe 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 Totmyanina and Maxim Marinin became Olympic champions in pair skating. For the fourth Olympics in a row, gold in single men's skating was won by 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 a combination of a quadruple toe loop - a triple toe loop - a triple rittberger.
The brilliant Russian couple Tatyana 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 a 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 single 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 showed that there is no one stronger than our figure skating school. The team competition was 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 Solovyov and Elena Ilyinykh - Nikita Katsalapov.
We will wait for the results individual competitions, and "cheer" 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 Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov will become them, but we also wish our rivals to perform well and please us beautiful programs. Let us remember those who already bear the title of Olympic Champions. 1908. London. The first Olympic champions are the representatives of Germany, Anna Hübler and Heinrich Burger.
1920. Antwerp. And the first post-war Olympic champions are Ludovika and Walter Jacobsson from Finland. At the time of the victory, by the way, the partner was 36 years old, and the partner was 38 years old. 
1924. Chamonix. The first Winter Olympics were won by Helen Engelmann and Alfred Berger of Austria, leaving behind the reigning Olympic champions in their forties. 
1928. St. Moritz. At previous Olympics french couple André Joly and Pierre Brunet were bronze medalists, and these won gold. In many ways, modern figure skating owes this great couple. It was they who invented the mirror step sequence, and they were also very creative and came up with new lifts and spins. 
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. Germans Maxi Gerber and Ernst Bayer won the home Olympics. The partner at the time of the victory was a little over 15 years old. And if the legendary French did come to the Olympic Games, the German couple would still put up a worthy resistance to them. They are the world's first performers of parallel jumps. 
1948. St. Moritz. The Belgians Micheline Lannoy and Pierre Bonnier won the only gold medal for their country in figure skating. 
1952. Oslo. The victory in pair skating was again celebrated by the 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 are very successful in single figure skating. At this Olympics, the time has come to finally repeat the success in pair skating. Elisabeth Schwartz and Kurt Oppelt won. 
1960. Squaw Valley. At this Olympics, the representatives of the North American continent achieved the only time in pair skating. Canadians Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul won. 
1964. Innsbruck. With this Olympics, a grandiose and invincible procession and the total superiority of the Soviet, and then Russian school figure skating. The first victory was won by Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov. 
1968. Grenoble. This time, 2 Soviet couples already 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 Protopopov was picked up by Irina Rodnina and Alexey Ulanov. After the Olympic Games, the couple broke up, as the partner married Lyudmila Smirnova, a silver medalist in these competitions, and then they continued to perform together. 
1976. Innsbruck. Irina Rodnina wanted to leave the big sport after the collapse of the champion couple with Ulanov, but her coach Stanislav Zhuk paired her with Alexander Zaitsev, with whom she won these Olympic Games. At least there were no couples close in class to them in the world. Ratings of 6.0 were commonplace for this couple. 
1980. Lake Placid. The year before, the couple Rodnin, Zaitsev missed the season due to the birth of their son. In their absence, the American couple won the World Cup, and the American media began a real persecution of the Soviet champions, blaming them for everything that only their imagination suggested to them. The pressure was felt at the competitions, but Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev did not give even 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 Vasilyev remained in 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 couples competed for Olympic gold. As a result, 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 the gold. These were the invincible Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov. 
1998. Nagano. After last Olympics, a pair of 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 a new partner, Oksana Kazakova, in fierce competition with the second Russian couple Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze 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 whole world history figure skating Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, which they did. True, they also yielded to the hysterically begging North Americans, but let's leave it on the conscience of the international federation and will not even mention these pseudo-champions. 
2006. Turin. In the last decade, a 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 fierce competition with them that the entire Olympic cycle passed, but the main start of the four years was won by our Tatyana Totmyanina 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 failed 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 dominance on the world stage means a lot. And Xu Shen and Hongbo Zhao became Olympic champions. It was with them that the history of success of Chinese athletes in figure skating began, it would not be fair if these great skaters ended their careers without becoming Olympic champions. 
Who will become the next one 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 GOLD SILVER BRONZASSSR 8 5 1Russia 4 2 0Germany 3 3 6Austria 2 2 1France 2 0 2Canada 1 2 3China 1 2 2Finland 1 1 0Belgium 1 0 0USA 0 3 2Great Britain 0 1 2Hungary 0 10 4Norway , Brunet, Zhao, Joly, Zaitsev, Marinin, Olympic Games, Rodnina, Sikharulidze, Totmyanina, Falk, Shen, Jacobsson, Belousova, pair skating, protopopov, figure skating, champions PhotoHint http://pics.livejournal.com/igrick/pic/000r1edq
Today the 2015 World Figure Skating Championship starts in Shanghai. On the occasion, ELLE remembers the brightest representatives of this sport in singles.
Julia Lipnitskaya
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The youngest winner in the history of Olympic figure skating Yulia Lipnitskaya became the main sensation of Sochi-2014. 15-year-old figure skater, who, among other venerable pros, won team competition, applauded by President Vladimir Putin, the stars of Russian figure skating and all Western media without exception. “With her incredibly light triple jumps, acrobatic spins and champion temperament, Yulia Lipnitskaya led Russia to the Sochi Olympics' first gold medal,” writes The Washington Post. In addition, Steven Spielberg himself wrote her a touching letter, stunned by her skating to the music from his film Schindler's List.
“She impressed judges and spectators with her combination of skating elegance and exceptional flexibility,” sings the praises of Julia in The Guardian.
Exceptional flexibility, phenomenal rotations, but most importantly - the subtlety of performance and special drama, which no one expected from a 15-year-old girl, allow us to speak of her as one of the most talented figure skaters in history.
Katarina Witt is a legendary figure skater, the most famous and titled, Olympic champion in single skating (1984, 1988), four-time world champion, six-time European champion (1983-1988 in a row), eight-time champion of the GDR. The outstanding single skater became a legend of the 80s - it was she who, for the first time in the history of the world championships in 1981, performed hardest jump- triple flip. Witt's career was so flawless that after leaving amateur sports the girl became a participant and producer of ice shows and for a long time worked under a contract with the American ice ballet troupe. In addition, Katarina was considered one of the beautiful women of her time - men's magazines often offered her participation in candid photo shoots, which she often did not neglect.
Ukrainian Oksana Baiul is a real legend of women's single skating, the 1994 Olympic champion, who performed one of the best short programs in the history of figure skating (to the music of Tchaikovsky). The insane popularity of the Soviet girl in the United States, where she emigrated after a resounding success, was also associated with a number of scandals and curiosities around her name. So, at the Nations Cup competitions in November 1992, 14-year-old Oksana fell on a jump, but was phenomenally able to beat the fall with dance moves, and then performed a triple salchow. In January 1993, as a debutante at the European Championships in the original dance, she made a mistake in her jump combination and then found herself skating with her boot unlaced. The girl stopped the performance and turned to the judges - after the meeting, they allowed the entire program to be performed again.
But the most dramatic moment of her sports life was the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics. Losing to the beauty and favorite of America, Nancy Carrigan, Baiul was also attacked by a figure skater from Germany - with an injured back and shin, with stitches and on painkillers, Oksana performed a free program, performing five triple jumps. 5 out of 9 judges gave preference to her, leaving the clear favorite Carrigan in second place. American TV channels later broadcast the controversial moment, emphasizing the biased decision of German judge Jan Hoffmann.
After completing her amateur career, Oksana moved to live in the United States, performed as a professional, and also underwent treatment in rehabs for alcoholism and mental health problems.
An energy volcano, an incredible figure skater who became a sensation of the 90s and a real star, 5-time European champion (1991-1995) and 9-time French champion, Suria Bonaly, however, never became a world champion. There has always been a lot of controversy and even scandals around her name - on the one hand, she performed a number of technically complex elements that were not subject to anyone else in the world (for example, a back flip, which was considered a prohibited element; a quadruple sheepskin coat), on the other hand, mandatory for figure skating elements such as a triple sheepskin coat performed with an obvious under-rotation. The record technique compensated for the quality of the slide - Surya Bonaly was adored by the whole world, and her fans sincerely believed that the judges underestimated the figure skater. In addition, Bonaly went down in history as the only figure skater who refused to climb the podium due to disagreement with the estimates.
The main star of American figure skating in singles, for a decade, Michelle Kwan was considered an unattainable athlete.
American Chinese origin became a two-time Olympic medalist (although she sensationally did not take 1st place each time), a five-time world champion (second only to Sony Henie's record) and a nine-time US champion. She is the only woman in figure skating to have re-won the lost world title three times (1998, 2000, 2003). Even after the end of his career, Michelle enjoys incredible popularity and receives multi-million dollar contracts.
Before Yulia Lipnitskaya, Tara Lipinski was the youngest single skater in the Olympic Games. At the time of participation in the Winter Olympics, she was not yet sixteen years old. Champion Winter Olympics 1998 in Nagano, world champion in 1997, US champion in 1997, Tara Lepinski became an absolute sensation, beating even the titled Michelle Kwan at the Olympics. The effect of her performance was comparable to the emotions from the rental of Yulia Lipnitskaya - the girl-child turned out to be more convincing than more experienced athletes.
Today, an American admits that she is sick with all her heart for a teenager from Russia, Yulia Lipnitskaya - according to Tara, contrary to popular belief, at the age of 15, stress and tension are no easier to experience than at a more mature age.