Evgeni Plushenko
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's figure skating | |||
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| Silver | 2002 Salt Lake City | Singles | |
| Gold | 2006 Turin | Singles | |
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| Evgeni Plushenko in 2005. | ||
| Personal Info | ||
| Country: |  Russia |
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| Date of birth: | November 3, 1982 | |
| Residence: | Saint Petersburg, Russia | |
| Height: | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |
| Coach: | Alexei Mishin | |
| Skating Club: | Yubileyny Sports Palace | |
| ISU Personal Best Scores | ||
| Short + Free Total: | 258.47 | 2006 XX Olympics |
| Short Program: | 90.66 | 2006 XX Olympics |
| Free Skate: | 167.81 | 2006 XX Olympics |
| Most Recent Results: | ||||
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| Event | Points | Finish | Year | |
| Olympic Winter Games | 258.47 | 1st | 2006 | |
| European Championships | 245.33 | 1st | 2006 | |
Evgeni Viktorovich Plushenko, or Yevgeny Viktorovich Plyushchenko (Russian: Евге́ний Ви́кторович Плю́щенко) (born November 3, 1982 in Solnechny, Khabarovsk Krai, Soviet Union (Russia) is a Russian figure skater, the seven-time National Champion, five-time European Champion, three-time World Champion, 2006 Winter Olympics gold medalist, and four-time Grand Prix Final gold medalist.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early Years
Evgeni Plushenko started skating at age four. When he was eleven years old, his ice rink in Volgograd closed. He was then sent to Saint Petersburg to train under the tutelage of Alexei Mishin.
Plushenko made quick progress on the international scene under Mishin's tutelage. As a 14-year-old, he won the 1997 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. The following year, at 15, he finished third at the senior World Figure Skating Championships. At the time, Mishin was also coaching another rising teenage star, Alexei Yagudin, who won the World Championships in 1998, and Yagudin and Plushenko developed a fierce rivalry. Yagudin finally decided to leave Mishin and eventually was coached by Tatiana Tarasova, but the rivalry between the two skaters continued throughout the years as they repeatedly battled it out for major titles.
[edit] 2002 Olympics
At the 2002 Winter Olympics, Plushenko and Yagudin were considered co-favorites. Yagudin skated a flawless short program to a standing ovation and finished the night in 1st place. Plushenko, however, botched his quad-triple combination and finished 4th in the short program. He skated a strong free skate to "Carmen" and pulled up to finish in 2nd place overall; Yagudin received the highest free skate marks under the 6.0 system in the history of Olympic competition, and won the gold medal easily.
[edit] 2002 - 2006
After Yagudin's retirement, Plushenko won most of competitions he entered in the following four years. He finished second only twice. The first time was to Emanuel Sandhu at the 2003 Grand Prix Final. The second was the 2004 European Figure Skating Championships, where he lost to Brian Joubert. He suffered through a difficult 2005, when was forced to withdraw from the 2005 World Figure Skating Championships in Moscow after the short program due to injury, and did not even compete at the Grand Prix Final. He eventually required groin surgery. He underwent groin surgery to correct the problem in Munich, Germany in spring 2005.
On June 18, 2005, Plushenko married Maria Ermak in a lavish ceremony at the Hotel Astoria in St. Petersburg. His wife studies sociology at the University of St. Petersburg. Their first child, a son named Egor Evgenievich (originally Kristian), was born on June 15, 2006. However, they separated not long afterwards and divorced in February 2008. [1]
Going into the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Plushenko was the overwhelming favorite because of his past success under the new ISU Judging System which was now in use. Plushenko skated two solid programs and became the Olympic champion. He finished the short program ten points ahead of his closest rival, setting a new ISU record for the short program. His free skate was just as strong, and also set a new ISU record. Plushenko's free skating music was especially arranged for him by violinist Edvin Marton.
[edit] 2006 - Present
Plushenko took a break from competitive skating following the 2006 Olympic season. He has said the off season has helped him rest and recover from past knee injuries he has battled.
After seeing the poor results of Russian skaters in the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships (which was the worst since 1960), Plushenko was worried about Russia losing its status as a dominant force in figure skating, and was also concerned that Russia might even lose spots for its skaters in the 2010 Winter Olympics. He announced in April of 2007 that he has decided to return to competitive skating for the 2007-2008 season, to keep Russia at a competitive level with other countries until the next generation of Russian skaters can take over. Plushenko has since delayed his return until the 2008-2009 season.
Plushenko has also stated that he plans to compete in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. [2]
In 2008 Plushenko, together with violinist Edvin Marton, accompanied Dima Bilan on stage as part of the winning Eurovision Song Contest performance "Believe" in Belgrade, Serbia. Plushenko skated on stage as part of the performance.
[edit] Achievements
Plushenko's technical achievements are numerous. He is one of the few male skaters to perform the Biellmann spin. He was the first skater in the world to perform a quadruple toe loop-triple toe loop-double loop jump (4-3-2) combination in competition, at the 1999 NHK Trophy (he has since landed his 4-3-2 combination 26 times so far). He is the first skater to land a quadruple toe loop-triple toe loop-triple loop (4-3-3) combination in competition, at the Cup of Russia 2002 (he has since landed his 4-3-3 combination four times so far). Plushenko is also the first skater to land a triple toe loop-triple toe loop-triple loop-double loop (3-3-3-2) combination, which was at the 2005 "Ard Gala". At the European Championships, he landed a six jump combination (3-3-2-2-2-2) in his exhibition program. He has landed a four jump combination; 4 toe loop-3 toe loop-2 loop-2 loop, at the World Championships in 2001. Plushenko has landed a consistent quadruple toe loop in competition, and has also landed a quadruple salchow in Samara, Russia at the 2004 "Second stage of Cup of Russia". It is estimated that he has landed a total of about 100 quads in competition. Plushenko is also one of few figure skaters to have landed quadruple loops and quadruple lutzes in practice, but has never completed either of them in competition.
At the age of 16, Plushenko was the youngest male skater to ever receive a perfect score of 6.0. He received a total of seventy five 6.0s before the new Code of Points judging system was introduced.
[edit] Programs
Short Program
- Tango Flamenco by Paco de Lucia
- Nyah by Hans Zimmer
Long Program
- Tribute to Vaslav Nijinsky - Art on Ice; Magic Stradivarious; King of the Forrest by Edvin Marton
Exhibition
- Logical Song by Supertramp
Short Program
- Adagio Albinoni by Tomaso Albinoni / Remo Giazotto
Long Program
- St. Petersburg 300 by Igor Korniliuk
Exhibition
- Carmen Suite by Georges Bizet / Rodion Shchedrin
- Only you by The Platters
Short Program
- Earth Song, Childhood, Billy Jean, They Don't Care About Us by Michael Jackson
Long Program
- Carmen Suite by Georges Bizet / Rodion Shchedrin
- Fixe; Eclipse by Cirque du Soleil
- El Tango de Roxanne from Moulin Rouge Soundtrack
- La Petite Fille de la Mer by Vangelis Papathanassiou
Exhibition
- Sex Bomb by Tom Jones and Mousse T
- Carmen Suite by Georges Bizet / Rodion Shchedrin
Short Program
Long Program
- Xotica by Rene Dupere
- Tango from Hasta que te conoci by Raul Di Blasio
- Once Upon A Time In America by Ennio Morricone
- Cotton Club by Duke Ellington
- Mortal Kombat by George S. Clinton
Exhibition
Short Program
- The Sabre Dance by Aram Ilich Khachaturian
Long Program
- Dark Eyes
- Coachmen Don't Drive the Horse
- Concierto Madrigal for Two Guitars by Joaquin Rodrigo
Exhibition
- Two Step Nadya
- Ciocarlia
Short Program
- Hava Nagila by various artists
Long Program
- Chronologie 2, 3; Zoolookologie by Jean Michel Jarre
Exhibition
- Two Step Nadya
- Ciocircla
Short Program
- Concierto d' Aranjuez; El Gato Montes by Joaquin Rodrigo
Long Program
- Chronologie 2, 3; Zoolookologie by Jean Michel Jarre
Exhibition
- Chronologie 2, 3
- Zoolookologie
- Enigma
Short Program
- Tarantella by Witold Lutoslawski
- Santa Lucia by Luigi Gordigiani
Long Program
- William Tell Overture; The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini
Long Program
- Don Quixote by Leon Minkus
[edit] Competitive highlights
| Event | 1995-1996 | 1996-1997 | 1997-1998 | 1998-1999 | 1999-2000 | 2000-2001 | 2001-2002 | 2002-2003 | 2003-2004 | 2004-2005 | 2005-2006 |
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| Winter Olympic Games | 2nd | 1st | |||||||||
| World Championships | 3rd | 2nd | 4th | 1st | 1st | 1st | WD | ||||
| European Championships | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | |||
| World Junior Championships | 6th | 1st | |||||||||
| Russian Championships | 6th | 4th | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |
| Grand Prix Final | 5th | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | |||
| Cup of Russia | 4th | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |
| Skate Canada | 1st | 1st | |||||||||
| Trophee Lalique | 1st | ||||||||||
| NHK Trophy | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||||||||
| Bofrost Cup on Ice | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |||||||
| Skate America | 2nd | ||||||||||
| Finlandia Trophy | 7th | 3rd | 1st | ||||||||
| Blue Swords | 1st | ||||||||||
| European Youth Olympics | 1st | ||||||||||
| Goodwill Games | 2nd | 1st |
- WD = Withdrew
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.evgeniplushenko.net/single.shtml
- ^ Plushenko returning to competition. Retrieved on 2007-04-11.
[edit] External links
- plushenko.ru Official Site
- evgeniplushenko.it Official Italian Site
- evgeniplushenko.net Official Site
- Evgeni Plushenko at the International Skating Union biography page
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| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Plushenko, Evgeni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plushenko, Evgeny; Евге́ний Ви́кторович Плю́щенко |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Russian figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Solnechny, Khabarovsk Krai, Soviet Union |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
