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Ekaterina Gordeeva: success and bitter losses of the famous figure skater

In the 1980s, all Soviet TV viewers watched with enthusiasm every performance of the "golden couple". These two figure skaters - Sergey Grinkov and Ekaterina Gordeeva - impressed the enthusiastic people not only with their skills on the ice, but also with their personal relationships.

Sports childhood

Katya Gordeeva was born in Moscow in 1971, on May 28. Her father was a dancer, and her mother worked in TASS, so the family was well-off. Four years later, the couple had another daughter, Maria.

Parents gave Katerina in the CSKA Moscow School of Sports at the age of three. It was this step that determined all its future destiny. In 1981, young Catherine Gordeeva (pictured below) met Sergei Grinkov at the rink. They trained each separately, but a year later they decided to pair them, because both jumps were weak enough to be single skaters. They were coached by Vladimir Zakharov. But a year later a new coach was started with a young coach Nadezhda Shevalovskaya and a choreographer. After a short training in 1983, this pair of young figure skaters took part in the World Cup and took the sixth place.

Stunning victories began in 1984. This year young figure skaters participated in the same international junior championship and got the first place.

Unsuccessful performance

A few months later, in 1985, they went to a tournament in Canada, and the coach added a new triple Salch jump to their program. It was a complicated and rare trick at the time. Ekaterina Gordeeva could not resist and fell.

Further success

After an unsuccessful stunt, Katya did not drop her hands and continued training and speaking with a new coach. He led the pair to victory. In 1986, at the championships of the USSR and Europe, Sergei and Katya received silver medals. But in the beginning of the spring of this year at the World Championships they deserved the first place. Ekaterina Gordeeva not only became a world champion, she was also the youngest among all who won before her. Now she and Sergei became idols of Soviet spectators. Not forcing their fans to wait long, in the winter of 1987, the couple did an incredible thing, something that no one had done before. It was a "twist in four turns", and commentators did not even believe their eyes. Interestingly, after the end of the speech, Katya's pulse was more than 200 beats per minute. So the couple became champions of the USSR.

Year of tests

At the end of the fall of 1987, Sergey and Katya, as usual, trained, but there was an unforeseen event. Raising his partner to support the "star", the skater got caught in a skate, and Katerina fell from a height of almost three meters to the ice. She bruised her head, getting a concussion. Sergei was very frightened and, after his partner was able to train again, completely changed. Now he became stronger and more reliable to keep his dear partner, began to appreciate her, and the two skaters turned into a couple. Relationships between young people have changed, they now cherished each other.

Further career

Young figure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva with her partner in February 1988 at the Olympics received "gold." Besides the fact that the girl was successful in her favorite business, she was on the list of the most beautiful people in the world. Having taken not one first place, this couple went to the theater on the ice to Tarasova Tatiana.

Ekaterina Gordeeva: personal life and bitter losses

Sergei and Katya loved each other, so in 1991 the skaters decided to get married. They were married, promising to love each other always. It was the happiest and most successful couple. They always acted together. Catherine was radiant, because in her career, and in her personal life, she did it all. In 1992, the young couple had a daughter, Daria. The family moved to America. Life was developing as best as possible. In addition, in 1994 the figure skaters received another Olympic victory. But this happiness could not last long.

In late November 1995, the young family went to another training session, which was held in Lake Placid. Suddenly, Sergei felt sick. He was hospitalized, and in the hospital he passed away. He had a massive heart attack. Together with Katya, I mourned the loss of the whole world. She had a three-year-old daughter, Dasha, who was very much like her father.

A year later, Ekaterina Gordeeva published the book "My Sergei ...", in which she described all the bright memories and her subsequent grief.

And what then ...

Katya returned to the ice in 1996. It was skating that helped the young star survive this grief. She took part in competitions until 2000. After that, the figure skater finished her sports career and took part in the show with different partners.

On show Stars On Ice Catherine met with figure skater Ilya Kulik, who became her new partner. In 2001 they were married. The family remained to live in America, and in 2002 the couple had a daughter, Elizabeth.

It is worth noting that the famous figure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva in 1998 was filmed a documentary. Also, Katya published a second book called "The Letter to Daria".

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