Alexei Yagudin

Alexei Konstantinovich Yagudin (Russian: Алексей Константинович Ягудин, listen / i;? Born March 18, 1980 in Leningrad ) is a Russian former figure skater, who started in a single run. He is the Olympic champion of 2002, the world champion of 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002 and the European Championships of 1998, 1999 and 2002.

Career

Alexei Konstantinovich Yagudin was born on 18 March 1980 at the former Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. He began at the age of four years with the figure skating, including his mother, soy encouraged. His father divorced his mother when Yagudin was a child and left the family. Yagudin, who was an only child, went to live alone with his mother. Yagudin was before the age of ten, all double jumps and before his twelfth year all five triple jumps. Until that time, he was coached by Alexander Mayorov. When he went to Sweden in 1992, Yagudin was introduced to the famous coach Alexei Mishin. In Mischins group he trained between now and 1998.

In 1994, Yagudin started to deny international competitions. He became World Junior Champion in 1996 in Brisbane, Australia. His first World Cup he competed in 1997 in Lausanne and finished it in third place on the podium at first. His first major international title in the senior, he won a year later, at the European Championships in 1998 in Milan. Before his later period rival Yevgeny Plyushchenko In the subsequent Olympic Games in Nagano Yagudin had to contend with severe pneumonia and still finished fifth. A month later, he won his first world championship in Minneapolis title before the local hero Todd Eldredge and compatriot Plyushchenko. He was the first Russian who became world champion after the collapse of the Soviet Union and at 18 years and 15 days, the second-youngest world champion in history, according to Donald McPherson, who was at the World Championships in 1963 six days younger than Yagudin. Two months after this triumph, he ended the collaboration with Alexei Mishin and joined the famous coach Tatiana Tarasova. You would be his trainer until his retirement in late 2003.

The infamous rivalry between Yagudin and Plyushchenko began, when both were trained in the group of Alexei Mishin, but was still stronger than Yagudin moved to Tarasova. Yagudin claimed that Mishin Plyushchenko have preferred him because of this, unlike him, did not tend to contradictions and without hesitation obeyed what Mishin asked of him.

In the 1998/99 season Yagudin won eleven of the thirteen competitions in which he participated. Including the World Championship of professionals before Kurt Browning and the Grand Prix Final. Above all, he defended both major title from the previous year. At the European Championships in Prague, he won again before Plyushchenko, as well as at the World Championships in Helsinki.

At the beginning of the next season, 1999/2000 Yagudin struggled with injuries. So he had the Grand Prix Final omit due to knee problems and lost the national championship as well as the European Championship in Vienna against his rival Plyushchenko. At the world championships in Nice, he was, however, again at the height of his power and won for the third time in a row at the World Championships.

The following season 2000/ 01 should be a difficult season for Yagudin. He focused more on the artistic part of the program and still conceived more difficult choreography with new, innovative step sequences. However, suffered from the resistance in the jumps. In addition, he has been repeatedly plagued by injuries. He defeated Plyushchenko at the Grand Prix Final, the national championships and again at the European Championships. Shortly before the World Championships in Vancouver, his right foot was injured again, which led to a disastrous situation for his performance in qualifying. In his qualifying group, he was only fifth. However, in the short program, he showed an outstanding performance, a standing ovation and great compliments which he won, especially in terms of its fighting performance, after all the problems. In the end it was enough even for Vice World Championship titles in a Plyushchenko.

The Olympic 2001/02 season began for Yagudin with a disappointing third place at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane in September 2001. From this appearance, however, Yagudin lost this season is no more competition. He won the Grand Prix Final as well as the European Championships in Lausanne. But his greatest triumph was the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. He was not only Olympisasieger before Plyushchenko and Timothy Goebel, but he succeeded as the first figure skater for 50 years by each judge to be placed in the short program as well as freestyle, in the first place. In addition, next only 5.9 reviews it got in the freestyle, which he ran to the soundtrack of The Man in the Iron Mask, four times the maximum score 6.0 for presentation, from the USA and Germany. Before him, no other figure skaters had received more than once, the highest score at the Olympic Games.

At the World Cup this year Yagudin made ​​the triumph perfect and was the fourth time in his career World Champion and made ​​history in Nagano again. He got six times the 6.0 in the short program and two times in the freestyle. He was the first and only figure skater in history who got six perfect scores in a short program and which for the first time the highest score for the required elements. Yagudin succeeded as the first figure skater John Curry since 1976 to win European Championship, World Cup and Olympic games in a season. He was the first one to even won the Grand Prix Final, which it had not yet added to curries times.

After the Olympic season a congenital Hüftschaden was diagnosed with Yagudin, of the End of career, which he officially announced in October 2003, forcing him. One month prior to this announcement, he was briefly arrested after he was driven into the U.S. car drunk. Already in 1999, Yagudin was seeking treatment for alcohol problems in his homeland. After his retirement from competitive skating, he moved to the pros and toured with Stars on Ice and Ice Symphony.

2003 Yagudin was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland of the Russian Federation.

In 2004, he advised Brian Joubert, a competitor of his former arch-rival Yevgeny Plyushchenko and coached Andrei Gryazev, the Russian champions of 2007.

2005 Yagudin published his autobiography. Since that year he also acted in numerous episodes of Stars on Ice, Ice Age with later. In 2008 he tried his hand as an actor at the theater, where he played the role of a Russian president.

In July 2007, Yagudin could use a new hip joint. In August, he announced his intention to return after four more years as a professional for competitive sport. His former coach Tatiana Tarasova and Nikolai Morozov, his former choreographer said to to want to train him again, this should be the case. In November 2007, Yagudin suffered but a new injury and had announced that a comeback under these circumstances would be too difficult.

On June 2, 2008 Jagudins car was stolen by, there was also one of his gold medals he won at the World Championships. The car as well as the medal was not found again until today.

Alexei Yagudin now lives in Moscow. Since 2008 he is with the Olympic champion, multiple European and World Champion in pair skating, Tatjana Totmjanina romantically involved. On 20 November 2009 their child was born.

Results

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Winter Olympic Games Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics 1997 World Figure Skating Championships 1998 World Figure Skating Championships 1999 World Figure Skating Championships 2000 World Figure Skating Championships 2001 World Figure Skating Championships 2002 World Figure Skating Championships 1998 European Figure Skating Championships 1999 European Figure Skating Championships 2000 European Figure Skating Championships 2001 European Figure Skating Championships 2002 European Figure Skating Championships Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final Single skating List of Olympic medalists in figure skating World Junior Figure Skating Championships Donald McPherson (figure skater) 1963 World Figure Skating Championships The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film) Nagano, Nagano Nikolai Morozov (figure skater) 1996 European Figure Skating Championships 1997 European Figure Skating Championships Russian Figure Skating Championships Skate America Skate Canada International Cup of Russia International Skating Union Ulrich Salchow Hayes Alan Jenkins Manfred Schnelldorfer Robin Cousins Alexei Urmanov Evan Lysacek Gilbert Fuchs Henning Grenander Fritz Kachler Felix Kaspar Henry Graham Sharp Hans Gerschwiler Alain Giletti Alain Calmat Emmerich Danzer Tim Wood (figure skater) Jan Hoffmann Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov Charles Tickner Brian Orser Elvis Stojko Jeffrey Buttle Daisuke Takahashi Patrick Chan Oskar Uhlig Max Bohatsch Ernst Herz Edi Rada Helmut Seibt Carlo Fassi Norbert Schramm Petr Barna Dmitri Dmitrenko Florent Amodio Dennis Coi Paul Wylie Christopher Bowman Igor Pashkevich Johnny Weir Nobunari Oda Adam Rippon Andrei Rogozine
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