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Dec 4, 1995 · COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY HEINZ KLUETMEIER Death Spiral This dazzling maneuver was part of Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov's gold-medal-winning pairs performance at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Now, with Grinkov's sudden death on the ice, they shall never skate together again (page 34).
Sergei Grinkov. Sergei Mikhailovich Grinkov ( Russian: Сергей Михайлович Гриньков; 4 February 1967 – 20 November 1995) was a Russian pair skater. Together with his wife Ekaterina Gordeeva, he was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion and a four-time World Champion (1986, 1987, 1989, 1990).
David Jacques Pelletier (born November 22, 1974) is a Canadian pairs figure skater. With his former wife Jamie Salé, he was the co-gold medal winner at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. They shared the gold medal with the Russian pair Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze after the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal .
Jun 22, 2005 · Gordeeva and Grinkov married in 1991, and the next year their daughter, Daria, was born. Still, the pair -- who had turned pro -- dreamed of competing in a second Olympic competition.
Welcome! This site dedicated to the most beautiful pair in figure skating - Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov - and created for their fans and people who were touched by their story. The site is unofficial. Here you will find more than a thousand of photos, as well as articles interviews and videos.
Love Story. The death of 28-year-old Sergei Grinkov was the final chapter in one of sport’s great romances. The tears came at Vagankovsky Cemetery last Saturday. Ekaterina Gordeeva had held herself together for most of this longest day of her life at the end of the longest week of her life--the performer doing her job, making other people ...
Jan 1, 1996 · Ekaterina Gordeeva, E.M. Swift. Thrown together as children by the Soviet regime and told to skate for the good of the state, Sergei Grinkov and Katia Gordeeva became the most celebrated pairs skaters in the world--falling madly in love, marrying, and having a beautiful baby daughter. But after winning two Olympic gold medals and four World ...
