Artur Dmitriev

Artur Dmitriev Valeryevich (Russian Артур Валерьевич Дмитриев; born January 21, 1968 in Bila Tserkva, near Kiev ) is a former Russian figure skater, who started in pair skating for the Soviet Union, the United team and Russia.

Career

Artur Dmitriev began six years ago with the figure skating. He trained in Saint Petersburg. His trainer was Tamara Moskvina. From 1987 to 1994 he along with Natalya Mischkutjonok. They first represented the Soviet Union and the disintegration of Russia. 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 Dmitriev and Mischkutjonok 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.

Dmitriev found a new partner Oksana Kazakova in. With it, he was in 1996 in Sofia European champion and 1998 in Milan vice-European champion. Their only World Cup medal she won bronze in 1997 in Lausanne. But the greatest success of the couple and Dmitriev Kazakova was the Olympic gold medal in Nagano in 1998 in front of their favorite compatriots Jelena Bereschnaja and Anton Sikharulidze. This Dmitriev is so far the only man who was Olympic champion in pair skating with two different partners. 1998 ended the couple his amateur career.

Nevertheless, they were competitors, Dmitriev was friends with Sergei Grinkow and Anton Sikharulidze. He helped Tamara Moskvina even to train Sikharulidze, although both were still running against each other.

Artur Dmitriev married 1992 World Gymnastics Champion 1985 Tatjana Druschinina. The couple has a son named Arthur. Druschinina works as Eiskunstlaufchoreographin and choreographed, among other things, the programs for the 2006 Olympic Games of the future Olympic champion Tatjana Nawka and Roman Kostomarow today and choreographed for Juko Kawaguti and Alexander Smirnov. The marriage, however, was divorced in 2006. Dmitriev is now married to Tatyana Fedorova, an accountant and has a son with her named Artyom. Together with Tamara Moskvina he trained the pair skater Katarina Gerboldt and Alexander Enbert.

Results

Pair of running

( with Natalya Mischkutjonok )

( with Oksana Kazakova )

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