Natalia Mishkutenok

Natalya Evgenevna Mischkutjonok (Russian Наталья Евгеньевна Мишкутёнок; * July 14, 1970 in Minsk) is a former Russian figure skater, which was launched in pair skating for the Soviet Union, the United team and Russia.

She trained in Saint Petersburg. Your trainer Tamara Moskvina was. From 1987 to 1994 she launched together with Artur Dmitrijew.

1988 they had their European Championship debut and finished it in fourth place. A year later she won bronze at the European Championships in Birmingham their first major international medal. This, in turn, they defended a year later in Leningrad. In 1990, she denied her World Cup debut in Halifax and immediately won the bronze medal. Following the resignation of their compatriots Ekaterina and Sergei Gordejewa Grinkow the fourfold Soviet runner-up in 1991 in Sofia European Champion and World Champion in Munich. 1992 succeeded Mischkutjonok Dmitriev and then the total triumph by winning the gold medal at the European Championships in Lausanne, the World Championships in Oakland and the Olympic Games in Albertville. The Olympiakür they ran to Franz Liszt Liebestraum.

After her Olympic victory Mischkutjonok and Dmitriev switched to the professionals. They did, however reamateurisieren for the 1994 Winter Olympics and won behind the also reamateurisierten Gordejewa and Grinkow the silver medal. Previously, she had become Russian runner and had won the bronze medal at the European Championships. The pair created a new, now often copied, pair spin. After the Olympic Winter Games 1994, the couple separated.

Natalya Mischkutjonok moved to the U.S. and married to ice hockey player Craig Shepherd. With him, she stepped into the nineties occasionally appear in show events. However, they divorced and remarried Mischkutjonuk. In 2006, their daughter into the world. Mischkutjonuk works as a trainer in Hurst, Texas.

Results

Pair of running

( with Artur Dmitriev )

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