Sergei Shakhrai

Sergei Semenovich Schachrai (Russian: Сергей Семёнович Шахрай; born June 28, 1958 in Moscow ) is a Russian former figure skater, who started in pair skating for the Soviet Union.

Schachrais figure skating partner was Marina Cherkasova. Training was the pair of Stanislav Zhuk. Schachrai was 18 and Cherkasova age 12, when she ran together for the first time. Between the two was at this time a size difference of 35 cm, as Cherkasova was only 1.38 m tall.

With his 12 -year-old partner Schachrai won the bronze medal with his European Championship debut in 1977 in Helsinki. His first World Cup ended the pair in the same year in fourth place. The enormous difference in size -related innovations in throwing and lifting elements. By facilitating these elements through the physical constellation of the pair of concept emerged from the " Wegwurfpaar ". Then the regulations were changed and large size differences between the partners, which prevented the physical harmony, punishable by point deduction. In 1978 Schachrai Cherkasova and in the absence of Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev for the first time Soviet champion in Strasbourg and European vice-champion behind their outstanding compatriots Rodnina and Zaitsev. At the World Cup they missed in fourth as last year a medal. Rodnina and Zaitsev 1979 took part due to a maternity leave of no competitions. Thus Schachrai Cherkasova and defended their national championship titles and were in Zagreb European champions. At the World Championships in Vienna in 1979, they won silver behind the Americans Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner for their first World Cup medal. By 1980 Marina Cherkasova had grown 20 cm. This change affected the technical elements of the pair. Nevertheless, they were now perceived more as a couple and 1980 was their most successful year. Both at the European Championships in Gothenburg, as well as at the Olympic Games in Lake Placid, they won the silver medal behind their returning countrymen Rodnina and Zaitsev. As Rodnina had to cancel the World Cup due to injury, in Dortmund the way was clear for Schachrais and Tscherkassowas first and only World Cup title.

By 1981, Cherkasova had so much to put on size and weight that Schachrai they could not lift enough. Your last medal won bronze behind the couple with Irina and Igor Worobjowa Lissowski and Tina Riegel and Andrew Nischwitz at the European Championships 1981 in Innsbruck. At the World Cup, it was enough only for fourth place. Schachrai and Cherkasova 1982 occurred again in the Soviet championships, could not qualify in fourth behind Worobjowa / Lissowski, Pestowa / Leonovich and Perschina / Akbarow but for an international competition. Then they finished their career.

Schachrai works as a figure skating coach in Sydney, Australia.

Results

Pair of running

( with Marina Cherkasova )

Winter Olympic Games 1979 World Figure Skating Championships 1980 World Figure Skating Championships 1977 European Figure Skating Championships 1978 European Figure Skating Championships 1979 European Figure Skating Championships 1980 European Figure Skating Championships 1981 European Figure Skating Championships 1977 World Figure Skating Championships Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev 1978 World Figure Skating Championships Randy Gardner (figure skater) Christina Riegel Andreas Nischwitz 1981 World Figure Skating Championships Marina Pestova List of Olympic medalists in figure skating Russian Figure Skating Championships Phyllis Johnson James H. Johnson Karl Mejstrik Ludwig Wrede Pierre Brunet (figure skater) Ernst Baier Micheline Lannoy Peter Kennedy (figure skater) Ria Baran Jennifer Nicks John Nicks Frances Dafoe Norris Bowden Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt Barbara Wagner Maria Jelinek Otto Jelinek Oleg Protopopov Irina Vorobieva Tassilo Thierbach Barbara Underhill Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler Ingo Steuer David Pelletier Shen Xue Pang Qing Aliona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy Maxim Trankov Olga Orgonista Idi Papez Karl Zwack Marianna Nagy (figure skater) Silvia Grandjean Michel Grandjean Oksana Kazakova Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov (figure skater) Igor Moskvin Nina Zhuk Alexei Mishin Denis Petrov
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