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2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships

31-year-old Evgeni Plushenko, a ten-time national champion, was first in the men's short program by over five points ahead of 18-year-old Maxim Kovtun, with Sergei Voronov coming in third.

An Evening with Champions

Past years' skaters have included Michelle Kwan, Brian Boitano, Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi, Ekaterina Gordeeva, and the Haydenettes synchronized skating team who have made "EWC" their opening appearance for many years.

Bernard Ford

Ford immigrated to Ontario, Canada in 1971 and coached numerous ice dance teams to national titles and international acclaim, most notably 1986 World bronze medalists Tracy Wilson / Rob McCall.

Carola Weißenberg

Carola Weißenberg (married name Fleischhauer) (born 24 December 1962 in Hohenschönhausen, Germany) is a former East German figure skater and a three-time national medalist.

Christian Horvath

Christian Horvath (born 7 November 1981 in Feldkirch, Austria) is an Austrian figure skater.

Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Pairs

Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao of China, skating to Led Zeppelin's song Kashmir, ranked second with 64.72 pts, followed closely by Maria Petrova and Alexei Tikhonov of Russia with 64.27 pts.

Inge Wischnewski

Inge Wischnewski, née Kabisch, (2 March 1930 – 11 July 2010) was a German figure skater and figure skating coach.

John Lettengarver

John Lettengarver (April 29, 1929 – January 14, 1997 in Edmonds, Washington) was an American figure skater who competed in men's singles.

Juan Legaz

Juan Legaz (born 27 March 1987) is a Spanish former competitive figure skater.

Karla Quinn

Karla Quinn (born 15 September 1988 in Rasharkin, Ballymoney) is a British figure skater.

Lougee Basabas

In 2007 she was paired up with figure skater, Dikki John Martinez,on the show STARS ON ICE on QTV11 along with Bobby Andrews, who was paired to Leslie Pena Ching, and Sheree.

Mary Louise Wright

Mary Louise Lyle Wright, née Premer (born 1923 in Saint Paul, Minnesota; died December 15, 2004) was an American figure skater and official.

Mary Scotvold

In the mid-1970s, after separating from Ludington, she began coaching at the Wagon Wheel rink in Rockton, Illinois, where her pupils included a young Scott Hamilton.

Melissa Gregory

Gregory and Petukhov were originally coached by Oleg Epstein and Sandra Hess but made a change in 2003 to Nikolai Morozov and Shae-Lynn Bourne.

Monika Dannemann

Monika Dannemann (24 June 1945 – 5 April 1996) was a German figure skater and painter, mainly known as the last girlfriend of guitarist/singer Jimi Hendrix, and later the wife of German guitarist Uli Jon Roth of Scorpions.

Pam Gregory

Gregory began working at the University of Delaware rink in 1990 and previously coached Scott Smith, Jeff Merica, Chrisha Gossard, Sara Wheat, Kelsey Drewel, and Christine Zukowski.

Ronald Gilbey

Alfred Ronald Dashwood Gilbey (20 February 1911 - 31 July 1977) was a British figure skater, businessman and politician.

Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Bilan was joined on stage by figure skater Evgeni Plushenko, who performed on a mobile ice rink placed on stage specifically for the Russian performance, and violinist Edvin Marton, who performed with a Stradivarius.

Saint-Victor, Quebec

Karolin Métivier, figure skater, was born October 16, 1986 in Saint-Georges' hospital but has been living in Saint-Victor since then.

Sepp Schönmetzler

Sepp Schönmetzler (born September 24, 1944 in Etzdorf, Saxony) is a German figure skater, coach, and journalist.

Sharon Burley

Sharon Kay Burley Sullivan (born 8 May 1956 in Tripoli, Libya) is an Australian figure skater who completed in ladies singles.

Skating with Celebrities

The six professional skaters who paired with the stars were five-time U.S. pairs champion Tai Babilonia, three-time U.S. pairs champion John Zimmerman, Olympic Silver Medalist (figure skating) Nancy Kerrigan, four-time World champion Kurt Browning, three-time U.S. pairs champion Jenni Meno, and Olympic Bronze Medalist (figure skating) Lloyd Eisler.

The show was hosted by Olympic swimming Gold Medalist Summer Sanders and figure skating Olympic figure skating Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton and judged by Olympic Gold Medalist (figure skating) Dorothy Hamill, skating coach John Nicks, and journalist Mark Lund.

The Porridge Men

In 2005, team GBR Figure-Skaters John and Sinead Kerr (from Scotland) chose three tracks from Planet Porridge as the soundtrack to their performances at the British Championships, the European Championships and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

Uschi Keszler's Pennies-in-Action Cancer Research Fund

This philanthropic organization was founded in 2008 by Olympic figure skater, coach, inventor of the ice-skating term hydroblading, and choreographer Uschi Keszler who is herself a breast cancer survivor.

Viktoria Lindpaitner

Viktoria Lindpaitner (born February 13, 1918 in Frankfurt am Main; died April 29, 1965 at the Tegernsee, Bavaria) was a German figure skater.


see also

Akšamija

Naida Akšamija (born 1991), Bosnia and Herzegovina figure skater

Albert Shesternyov

Shesternyov was married to the Soviet figure skater Tatyana Zhuk.

Allyn Rose

Rose was a competitive roller figure skater and won her first USA Roller Sports (USARS) championship at the age of 12.

Broadband Sports

Nancy Kerrigan, arguably the most prominent figure skater of the 1990s, announced her association with Athlete Direct in November 1999.

Cary Boyce

Boyce also trained as a figure skater since he was 16, and skated with Holiday on Ice in Europe for a time in the early 80s.

Caryn

Caryn Kadavy, American figure skater known for her classical style in singles skating

Dan Jansen

During those games, Jansen shared his experiences from his sister's death during the Calgary Olympics with figure skater Joannie Rochette, sending her an e-mail after hearing that her mother suffered a fatal heart attack.

Daphnis et Chloé

American figure skater Sarah Hughes won an Olympic gold medal skating to selections from Daphnis et Chloé at the XIX Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City in 2002.

Divín

::For Slovak figure skater see Karol Divín

Edward Villella

Villella and his wife Linda Carbonetto, a former Olympic figure skater, have two daughters named Lauren and Crista.

Eggleton

Jaimee Eggleton (born 1964), Canadian figure skater and 1984 Olympian

Igor Larionov

Larionov is married to former figure skater Elena Batanova and has three children, Alyonka, Diana and Igor II.

Jan Burka

He also met here his future wife, renowned figure skater Ellen Burka, née Danby, who was raised in the Netherlands.

Jean Chevalier

:For the Canadian figure skater, see Jeanne Chevalier

Kazumi Yamashita

Kazumi Onishi (born 1948), née Yamashita, Japanese figure skater

Linda Ann Ward

Linda Ann Ward (born May 24, 1947 in Puslinch, Ontario) is a Canadian former figure skater who competed in pairs.

New Egypt, New Jersey

Rocky Marval (born 1965), pairs figure skater who finished 10th at the 1992 Winter Olympics together with partner Calla Urbanski.

Norman Jeschke

In May 2002, Jeschke teamed up with Danish figure skater Mikkeline Kierkgaard.

North Attleborough High School

Colin Grafton (2010) Team USA figure skater, 2012 National Bronze Medalist, 2012 Junior World Member 2012 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

Pam Zekman

As a young woman, Zekman was also a competitive figure skater, finishing fifth in junior ladies singles at the 1961 United States Figure Skating Championships.

Paramus High School

Elaine Zayak (born 1965), figure skater who was the 1982 World champion and 1981 U.S. national champion.

Peter Oppegard

He is married to Karen Kwan, sister of world champion figure skater Michelle Kwan, and they have 2 daughters, Olivia Colett Oppegard and Sophia Oppegard.

Quarryville, Pennsylvania

Olympic Figure Skater Johnny Weir refers to Quarryville as his "hometown", living there for many of his childhood years.

Johnny Weir, US Olympic figure skater, grew up in Quarryville.

Runnemede, New Jersey

St. Teresa Regional School is a PreK-8 Catholic elementary school, that was once attended by Olympic Gold Medal-winning figure skater Tara Lipinski, and operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden.

Sandahl

Gösta Sandahl, Swedish figure skater, 1912 European Champion and 1914 World Champion

Serov

Roman Serov (b. 1976), Russian-born figure skater competing for Israel

Shishkov

Evgenia Shishkova (b. 1972), a Russian professional pairs figure skater and coach

Skating with Celebrities

Dave Coulier and Nancy Kerrigan did their routine in drag—her in a man's suit and mustache, him in a padded suit shaped like a female figure skater's costume and a bouffant wig—as a response to John Nicks' criticism about Coulier's lack of grace that ended in the rhetorical cry, "Where is your feminine side?" The pair's appearance in the routine was very similar to costuming for a routine Lloyd Eisler used to do with his professional partner, Isabelle Brasseur, called "Patricia The Stripper".

Snow White and the Three Stooges

Olympic gold medalist figure skater Carol Heiss starred as Snow White, who must flee her home after her stepmother wishes her to be dead.

Spiral fracture

Jeremy Ten, Canadian figure skater, sustained a spiral fracture of the fibula.

Ryan Bradley, American figure skater, suffered a spiral fracture in the humerus of his arm while playing dodge ball.

Sweatman

Fraser Sweatman (1913–1991), Canadian figure skater who competed in pairs

Teabean

is a Montreal based company owned and operated by Olympic Figure Skater Craig Buntin.

The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold

Michael Kuluva as a figure skater trying out to be Jackie's pair partner.

Tom Dickson

He is married to former figure skater and current coach and choreographer Catarina Lindgren.

Vadim Khomitsky

She is a figure skater who, in 1998, had posed for the Russian edition of Playboy magazine.

Wallace, Nova Scotia

Wallace is the birthplace of Simon Newcomb, the astronomer and mathematician, and the hometown of figure skater John Mattatall as well as the retirement residence of 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics co-winner Willard Boyle co-inventor of the charge-coupled device or the CCD imaging chip at the heart of digital cameras, and Raymond Legend of the EASHL Hartford Whalers.

Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey

Tara Lipinski (born 1982), 1998 Olympic Gold Medalist figure skater.

Yonsei–Korea rivalry

2010 Winter Olympic four-time gold medalist short track speed skater Chun Lee-Kyung is a graduate of Yonsei University, and gold medalist figure skater Kim Yu-Na is enrolled at KU.

Żukowski

Christine Zukowski (born 1989), American retired competitive figure skater