Viktor Petrenko

Viktor Petrenko (Ukrainian Віктор Петренко, also Russian Виктор Васильевич Петренко, Viktor Vasilyevich Petrenko, English transcription Viktor Petrenko, . Born June 17, 1969 in Odessa ) is a retired Ukrainian figure skater, the first for the Soviet Union, according to their decay for the United Team and finally launched for Ukraine in a single run. He is the 1992 Olympic champion, world champion in 1992 and European Champion in 1990, 1991 and 1994.

Biography

Petrenko was born in Odessa was the first of two sons of the engineer couple Tamara and Vassily. His younger brother Vladimir was also figure skater and 1986 World Junior Champion. Petrenko began, on the advice of a doctor, who advised parents on the basis Wiktors poor health, to let him play sports, with five years of figure skating. When he was ten years old, he was discovered by the trainer Halyna Smijewska who trained him throughout his amateur career.

Petrenko was 1984 World Junior Champion. At the Olympic Games in Calgary in 1988, he finished in third place. 1990, 1991 and 1994 he was European champion, 1992 world champion. Highlight of his career was his victory in the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville. His freestyle he ran to music by Thomas ( Raymond ), Chopin ( Waltz ) and Verdi ( Sicilian Vespers ).

His victories in the World Championships and at the Olympics fell in the time of the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Therefore, given in result lists as a country CIS ( Commonwealth of Independent States).

After his Olympic victory in 1992 he moved to the pros, but could be reamateurisieren in 1994 to compete in the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer for Ukraine. Here he was, however, only ninth in the short program and was able to work ahead in the final freestyle only to fourth place, so he missed a medal rank.

1992 Petrenko convinced his coach to take the 14 -year-old orphan Oksana Bajul and train, where he came up for the cost. Bajul later became world champion and Olympic champion. On June 19, 1992 married Nina Petrenko Melnick, the daughter of his coach Halyna Smijewska. The couple has a daughter, Victoria (born 21 July 1997). After the Olympic Games in 1994 left Petrenko, his wife, his mother, his brother and Bajul Ukraine towards Simsbury, Connecticut where they were invited to work as a coach. 2001 Petrenko organized a Eisschau for children, to raise money for children suffering from consequential damages of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl. With the money, among other things, an intensive care unit in Odessa has been funded with the latest technological equipment. 2005, Petrenko changed to Wayne where Victor works with his mother at the Ice Vault Area as a coach. His most famous pupils were there Johnny Weir and Stéphane Lambiel. Viktor Petrenko occurred for a record time of twenty seasons with Champions on Ice. He now acts as a technical specialist at the ISU and sits on the Executive Committee of the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation.

Results

Winter Olympic Games 1988 World Figure Skating Championships 1990 World Figure Skating Championships 1991 World Figure Skating Championships 1992 World Figure Skating Championships 1987 European Figure Skating Championships 1988 European Figure Skating Championships 1990 European Figure Skating Championships 1991 European Figure Skating Championships 1992 European Figure Skating Championships 1994 European Figure Skating Championships Transcription (linguistics) Single skating List of Olympic medalists in figure skating World Junior Figure Skating Championships Frédéric Chopin Wayne (New Jersey) International Skating Union 1985 World Figure Skating Championships 1986 World Figure Skating Championships 1987 World Figure Skating Championships 1989 World Figure Skating Championships 1985 European Figure Skating Championships 1986 European Figure Skating Championships Russian Figure Skating Championships 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 Donald McPherson (figure skater) Alain Calmat Emmerich Danzer Tim Wood (figure skater) Jan Hoffmann Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov Charles Tickner Brian Orser Kurt Browning Elvis Stojko Todd Eldredge Brian Joubert 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 Nobunari Oda Adam Rippon Andrei Rogozine Sergei Chetverukhin Yuri Ovchinnikov (figure skater)
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