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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Ekaterina Gordeeva, Sergei Grinkov, Artur Dmitriev, Irina Rodnina, Tamara Moskvina, Alexei Tikhonov, Alexei Mishin, Natalia Mishkutenok, Stanislav Zhuk, Oleg Vasiliev, Tatiana Tarasova, Elena Valova, Larisa Selezneva, Oleg Vitalyevich Makarov, Marina Cherkasova, Irina Vorobieva, Oleg Protopopov, Sergei Shakhrai, Ludmila Belousova, Andrei Bushkov, Marina Eltsova, Alexei Ulanov, Lyudmila Smirnova, Igor Moskvin, Aleksandr Gorelik, Veronica Pershina, Tatyana Zhuk, Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev, Igor Lisovsky, Alexander Vlassov, Andrei Suraikin, Rashid Kadyrkaev, Ludmila Velikova and Nikolai Velikov, Tatiana Tolmacheva, Maya Belenkaya, Stanislav Leonovich, Alexander Gavrilov, Marina Pestova, Marat Akbarov, Nina Zhuk, Marina Avstriskaia, Yuri Kvashnin, Vasili Blagov, Irina Cherniaeva, Dmitri Shkidchenko, Elena Leonova, Nadezhda Gorshkova, Evgeni Shevalovski, Dmitri Sukhanov, Irina Mironenko, Gennadi Krasnitski, Evgenia Chernisheva, Alexei Torchinski, Natalia Krestianinova. Excerpt: Ekaterina Alexandrovna Gordeeva (Russian: ) (born May 28, 1971) is a Russian (former Soviet) figure skater. Together with her late partner and husband Sergei Grinkov, she was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion and four-time World Champion in pair skating. After her husband's death, she continued performing as a singles skater. Often called "Katia," Gordeeva was born in Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) to Alexander Alexeyevich Gordeev and Elena Levovna Gordeeva. She has a younger sister, Maria Alexandrovna Gordeeva (born 1975), who lives in Moscow. Gordeeva began skating at the age of four, in skates many sizes too big, wearing multiple pairs of socks because skates small enough for her feet were unavailable in the Soviet Union. Gordeeva began figure skating at age four, when she entered Children and Youth Sports School of CSKA Moscow. She wa...
