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Rafael Arutyunyan (Armenian: Ռաֆայել Հարությունյան, Harutyunyan; Russian: Рафаэль Владимирович Арутюнян; born July 5, 1957) is an Armenian-American figure skating coach. He has coached in Armenia, Russia and the United States.
Aug 10, 2022 · Arutyunyan has come a long, long way from nearly being shut out of figure skating. Fifty-eight years later, he's been named one of the 2022 Coaches of the Year by a committee of members from the Professional Skaters Association (PSA) and U.S. Figure Skating.
- A Family’S Sacrifices
- Cheers in China
- Redemption For Nathan Chen
How did Rafael Arutyunyan know Chen could become the greatest figure skater in the world? The coach fielded the question less than an hour after Chen, his star pupil, had won the gold medal at the Beijing 2022 Olympics, etching his name with his toe pick in bold letters into the sport’s history. Chen had just delivered a dominant performance and st...
Arenas have been mostly sterile during these COVID Olympics, but when Chen stuck his final jump and beamed a wide grin up to the rafters, Capital Indoor Stadium exploded with screams and applause. Much of it came from the athlete section, where his team skate teammates and several friends were sitting. Or rather, as in the case of his close friend ...
Chen says it was not redemption he was seeking this week in Beijing, that Pyeongchang was just a step in the process. Still, it’s a weight he’ll be happy to shed. No matter what he accomplished during the ensuing four seasons, he’d be asked about how it related to what happened in Korea. But Chen never lost focus on his goal, the goal he says that ...
Jul 22, 2019 · Rafael Arutyunyan has worked with some of the biggest names in figure skating. This week, he and more than 6,000 others will become U.S. citizens at a ceremony at the L.A. Convention Center.
Feb 9, 2022 · Nathan Chen's world record short programme in the Olympic figure skating was no surprise for his long-standing coach Rafael Arutyunyan but the emotion of the moment brought a tear to his eye, the...
Oct 25, 2021 · While he largely trained on his own, he’d also consult via Face Time with coach Rafael Arutyunyan for support. (Arutyunyan took remote coaching in stride. “[F]or nine years I have been preparing Nathan for independent work,” he’s said.
Feb 9, 2022 · “I knew when we came here, when we came to Beijing,” Rafael Arutyunyan, Chen’s longtime coach, said when asked when he thought Chen had won the gold medal.
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