Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov World Championships 1986, Exhibition Credit: YT Sk8FraSch | Figure Skating Moments

Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, Challenge of Champions 1995 Music: Requiem (Verdi) Credit: YT Mintaka Alnilam | Figure Skating Moments

Today marks 30 years since we lost our friend Sergei Grinkov to a heart attack at our rehearsals in Lake Placid. Even all these years later, it seems impossible that this incredible young man, superbly conditioned, and less than two years after winning his second Olympic Gold, could be taken from us in this fashion in the prime of his life. Just a few months later, Katia Gordeeva found the courage to launch a career as a solo skater – something she may never have considered if not for the traged

Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, 1995 | Figure Skating Moments

Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, 1988 olympics, Exhibition Sergei Grinkov Born 4 February 1967 (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). Grinkov first took to the ice at the age of five, entering the Children and Youth Sports School of CSKA in Moscow.As Grinkov was not a strong solo skater, his coach decided to try him in pair s

Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, 1988 olympics, SP Ekaterina Gordeeva, born 28 May 1971 Is a Russian figure skater. Together with her partner and husband, the late Sergei Grinkov, she was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion and four-time World Champion (1986, 1987, 1989, 1990) in pair skating. After Grinkov's death, Gordeeva continued performing as a singles skater. She wore multiple pairs of socks inside skates many sizes too big because skates small enough for her feet were unavailable in