Natalia Linichuk

Natalya Vladimirovna Linitschuk (Russian Наталья Владимировна Линичук; born February 6, 1956 in Moscow) is a former Russian figure skater, which was launched in ice dancing for the Soviet Union.

Career

Linitschuks Eistanzpartner was Gennadi Karponossow. They were trained by Jelena Tschaikowskaja. In the period from 1974 to 1981, she participated in all the European Championships and reached always the podium. 1979 in Zagreb, and in 1980 in Gothenburg they were European champions, 1978 Vice European Champion and 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1981, they won the bronze medal. At World Championships, she attended from 1974 to 1980. 1978 in Ottawa and in Vienna in 1979 they were world champions. In 1980 she won silver and bronze in 1974 and 1977. Linitschuk and Karponossow run two Olympic Games. In 1976 in Innsbruck, at the first Olympics Ice Dancing with the program, they finished fourth and 1980 in Lake Placid, they were Olympic champions and so took the Olympic succession of their compatriots Lyudmila and Alexander Gorshkov Pakhomova.

1981 ended Natalia and Gennadi Linitschuk Karponossow her career as an active figure skater. On 31 July 1981, they married.

The couple first lived on in Moscow. Linitschuk and Karponossow were together successful Eistanztrainer. Later they went to the U.S., only to Delaware and then to Pennsylvania. They trained, among others, Oksana Grishchuk / Yevgeny Platov, Anschelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsyannikov, Irina Lobatschewa / Ilya Awerbuch, Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin (all Russia), Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovsky and Natalia Gudina / Alexei Belezki (all Israel), Albena Denkowa / Maxim Stawiski (Bulgaria ) and the Americans Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto.

Results

Ice Dancing

( with Gennadi Karponossow )

Winter Olympic Games 1974 World Figure Skating Championships 1977 World Figure Skating Championships 1978 World Figure Skating Championships 1979 World Figure Skating Championships 1980 World Figure Skating Championships 1974 European Figure Skating Championships 1975 European Figure Skating Championships 1976 European Figure Skating Championships 1977 European Figure Skating Championships 1978 European Figure Skating Championships 1979 European Figure Skating Championships 1980 European Figure Skating Championships 1981 European Figure Skating Championships List of Olympic medalists in figure skating Aleksandr Gorshkov (figure skater) Oksana Grishuk 1975 World Figure Skating Championships 1976 World Figure Skating Championships Russian Figure Skating Championships Jayne Torvill Christopher Dean Andrei Bukin Gwendal Peizerat Tessa Virtue Scott Moir Meryl Davis Charlie White (figure skater) Jean Westwood (figure skater) Pamela Weight June Markham Courtney Jones Doreen Denny Pavel Roman Diane Towler Bernard Ford Isabelle Duchesnay Paul Duchesnay Alexander Zhulin Shae-Lynn Bourne Victor Kraatz Isabelle Delobel Olivier Schoenfelder Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte Christiane Guhel Jean Paul Guhel Linda Shearman Angelika Buck Erich Buck Sergei Novitski Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev
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