Anton Sikharulidze

Anton Tarieljewitsch Sikharulidze (Russian Антон Тариэльевич Сихарулидзе; born October 25, 1976 in Leningrad ) is a Russian former figure skater, who started the pair of running.

Career

The parents are Anton Sicharulidses Lyudmila Posdnjakowa and Tariel Sikharulidze. He has an older sister named Marina and an older brother named Alexander. Sikharulidze began at the age of four years with the ice skating when he saw a neighbor boy with skates. At the age of 15 he wanted to stop, as the figure skating training took a very long time, but his father encouraged him to continue.

Sicharulidses first partner in pair skating was Maria Petrova. With it, he was in 1994 and 1995 Junior World Champion. They trained at Lyudmila Welikowa and Nikolai Welikow in Jubileiny Sports Complex in Saint Petersburg. Together, they run two World Cups and two European Championships. Her best result was sixth place at the 1995 World Championships and fifth place at the European Championship 1996. 1995 she was runner-up behind Russian Marina Jelzowa and Andrei Buschkow. 1996, separated Sikharulidze and Petrova, because he wanted to go to coach Tamara Moskvina, but she wanted to stay with their coaches.

In 1995, Jelena Bereschnaja with her figure skating partner Oleg Schljachow from Riga to Jubileiny sports complex to train at Moskvina. Between Sikharulidze Bereschnaja and a close friendship was born. Schljachow saw in Sikharulidze a competitor and returned with Bereschnaja back to Riga. In January 1996 Bereschnaja was severely injured during training, as Schljachows skate blade slashed her with a pirouette the skull. As Sikharulidze heard about this, he immediately traveled to Riga to visit them in the hospital. She could not speak at this time, nor move. Sikharulidze stayed with her and helped her in recovery. Bereschnaja will go back to figure skating and the doctors agreed careful movements on the ice, just two months later. With the help of Sikharulidze and under the observation of Tamara Moskvina they again made the first attempts on the ice. Moskvina was begeister the handling of the two together and so they started on a possible joint career as a pair skater thinking. Bereschnaja had recovered, their language was still impaired, so she went to speech therapy. Already at the European Championships in 1997 and came Sikharulidze Bereschnaja in together and immediately attracted the bronze medal.

A year later, at the European Championships 1998 in Milan, they were European champions and thus went as favorites for the Olympic Games in Nagano in 1998. A few seconds before the end of the free program they failed an elevation that may cost them the gold medal. They won the silver medal behind Oksana Kazakova their compatriots and Artur Dmitriev. At the World Championships in Minneapolis Sikharulidze and Bereschnaja were world champions. They defended this title in 1999 at the World Championships in Helsinki. From 1999 they were also become the first Russian champion, a title she defended until 2002. 1999 joined the Jubileiny sports complex due to renovations. The couple then went to Hackensack, New Jersey, where they trained together with the American pair of Kyoko Ina and John Zimmerman, which was also supervised by Tamara Moskvina. In 2000 they won the European Championships in Vienna. A little later, however, they were disqualified because Bereschnaja had been tested positive for pseudoephedrine. Then them the title was revoked and they were locked up for the World Cup. Bereschnaja had taken a medication for the common cold, which her doctor had agreed. But she had failed to report it to the ISU.

2001 won Sikharulidze and Bereschnaja then in Bratislava their second European Cup title. At the World Cup they lost to Canadians Jamie Salé and David Pelletier, with which had already formed over the entire season towards a rivalry.

So both couples went as favorites for the Olympic Games in 2002 in Salt Lake City. The Russians won the short program, while the Canadians suffered a fall. In the freestyle Sikharulidze and Bereschnaja made ​​minor errors while the Canadians were flawless. Four judges saw the Canadians front and five judges the Russians. Thus Sikharulidze and Bereschnaja was awarded the gold medal. The result provoked a controversy. The President of the ISU Ottavio Cinquanta led to pressure the IOC an investigation regarding a possible judge scandal. The focus fell on the French judge Marie -Reine Le point Gougne, the only western point judge who had counted for the Russian pair. Under pressure from the media, she stated to have been intimidated to vote for the Russian pair in exchange for an advantage for the French couple in Eistanzwettbewerb, which took place a few days later. The scandal ended that the Canadian pair Salé and Pelletier a gold medal was awarded. Le Gougne later said that she had honestly evaluated and added just the opposite due to the high pressure of the media. The media, especially NBC had the chance to break the Russian dominance in this competition after 42 years advertised. The judge scandal of Salt Lake City led the ISU to completely reform the rating system.

After the Olympics Sikharulidze and Bereschnaja toured until 2006, with the ice show Stars on Ice in the United States, after which they returned to Russia, where they performed in some ice shows on television.

In 2007 Sikharulidze was elected to the Russian parliament. He is Chairman of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports. In 2010 he had to register as a possible candidate for the post of President of the Russian figure skating federation, but withdrew when the statute was amended and the powers of the association presidents were circumcised.

Sikharulidze and Bereschnaja had between 1996 and 2002 a relationship. After that, they have remained close friends. Sicharulisdse was the godfather of Bereschnajas son of 2010.

Results

Pair of running

(up to and including 1996 with Maria Petrova, from 1997 with Jelena Bereschnaja )

  • Z = Withdrawn
  • D = Disqualified (due to a positive doping finding of Jelena Bereschnaja )
  • G = ISU locked

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Winter Olympic Games Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics 1998 World Figure Skating Championships 1999 World Figure Skating Championships 2001 World Figure Skating Championships 1997 European Figure Skating Championships 1998 European Figure Skating Championships 2001 European Figure Skating Championships Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final Maria Petrova (figure skater) World Junior Figure Skating Championships 1995 World Figure Skating Championships 1996 European Figure Skating Championships Andrei Bushkov Hackensack (New Jersey) John Zimmerman (figure skater) 2000 European Figure Skating Championships International Skating Union Duma List of Olympic medalists in figure skating 1994 World Figure Skating Championships 1997 World Figure Skating Championships 1995 European Figure Skating Championships 1999 European Figure Skating Championships Russian Figure Skating Championships Pierre Brunet (figure skater) Ernst Baier Micheline Lannoy Ria Baran Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt Barbara Wagner Oleg Protopopov Irina Rodnina Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev Shen Xue Maxim Trankov Phyllis Johnson James H. Johnson Karl Mejstrik Ludwig Wrede Peter Kennedy (figure skater) Jennifer Nicks John Nicks Frances Dafoe Norris Bowden Maria Jelinek Otto Jelinek Irina Vorobieva Tassilo Thierbach Barbara Underhill Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler Ingo Steuer Pang Qing Aliona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy Olga Orgonista Idi Papez Karl Zwack Marianna Nagy (figure skater) Silvia Grandjean Michel Grandjean Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov (figure skater) Kristi Yamaguchi Julia Vlassov Sui Wenjing Han Cong Yuri Larionov
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