Alexei Urmanov

Alexei Jewgenjewitsch Urmanow (Russian Алексей Евгеньевич Урманов, listen / i;? Born November 17, 1973 in Leningrad ) is a Russian former figure skater, who started in a single run. He is the Olympic champion in 1994 and European champion in 1997.

Urmanow, who was born in Leningrad, began at the age of four years with the figure skating. His coach Alexei Mishin was. In 1990, he was Vice Junior World Champion. At age 17, he succeeded in 1991 as the first to successfully land a quadruple jump at a European Championship. In his first Olympic Games In 1992, he finished fifth. In the same year he won bronze behind Petr Barna and Viktor Petrenko his first medal at a European Championship. The following year, he also won bronze at the World Championships behind the Canadians Kurt Browning and Elvis Stojko. It would be his only medal at the World Championships.

His biggest success was the surprising winning the gold medal in figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. After that, he could only win a title in 1997 at a major tournament by winning the European Championship. An injury prevented participation in the Olympic Games in Nagano in 1998. Subsequently, he moved to the pros and won the world title in 1999 there.

Currently Urmanow works as a trainer and training, among other things the Russian champion in 2008 and runner-up Junior World Champion 2006 Sergei Voronov. He is also ISU Official. In 2004, he married Victoria Urmanowa and has three children.

Results

Urmanow missed the entire 1997/1998 season due to injury

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