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Alexei Doudkine - Publications [Cancer Imaging : BC Cancer Research Centre bccrc.ca | Alexei Kondratyev: Research Probes the Yin and Yang of Brain Seizures -... gumc.georgetown.edu |
Alexei Konstantinovich Yagudin (Russian: Yagudin is the 2002 Olympic champion as well as a four-time World Champion, a two-time World Professional Figure Skating Champion, a three-time European Champion, and a three-time Grand Prix Final gold medalist.
[edit] CareerYagudin began skating at the age of 4, encouraged by his mother, Zoya. He began competing internationally in 1994, and won the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in 1996. Yagudin was coached by Alexei Mishin from approximately age twelve to age eighteen. During his six years in Mishin's group, he developed a fierce rivalry with his training partner Evgeni Plushenko. In 1999, Yagudin relocated to the United States to train with legendary coach Tatiana Tarasova, who continued to coach him until his retirement in 2003. Yagudin won his first major title at the 1998 European Figure Skating Championships leading a Russian sweep of the medals, with Plushenko in second and Alexander Abt in third. One month later he placed fifth at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. He went on from the Olympics to win the 1998 World Figure Skating Championships. Yagudin continued his success during the 1998-1999 season. He won the Grand Prix Final, though he lost the 1999 Russian National title to Plushenko. He then won his second European Championship over Plushenko and former Olympic champion Alexei Urmanov later that month. Yagudin again won the World Championship that season, his second consecutive World title. Yagudin struggled during the 1999-2000 season, losing to Plushenko at the Russian Championships and European Championships. However, he came back to win the 2000 World Championships. He continued to struggle the following season, losing every event in which he competed against Plushenko. However, the following year, an Olympic year, he won every event in which he entered. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Yagudin won the gold medal. He was the first male skater in 50 years to earn the first-place votes of every judge in all stages of the competition.[1] He was given four perfect 6.0's for presentation. No other man had ever scored more than one perfect mark in the history of the Olympic games.[2] At the World Figure Skating Championships in Japan in 2002, he became the first skater to receive six perfect 6.0's for presentation and the first to receive a perfect 6.0 for required elements.[3] A congenital hip disorder forced him to retire from eligible competition in 2003. Yagudin then turned professional, touring with Stars on Ice and Ice Symphony in Russia. Yagudin underwent surgery in July 2007 to have a titanium hip joint implanted. In August 2007, Yagudin later announced that he plans to return to competition after five years on the professional circuit. Nikolai Morozov and Tatiana Tarasova agreed to coach him should he return. [4]. However, Yagudin has since stated that returning to competitive skating would be too difficult and that he no longer wished to do so.[5] In 2003 he was awarded with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland. [edit] Personal lifeIn 2003, Yagudin was arrested for drunk driving.[6] His problems with alcohol also saw him kicked off the Champions on Ice tour in 1999.[7] After nearly seven years in the United States, Yagudin returned to Russia in 2005 and re-settled in his home town of St. Petersburg. He has since participated in various ice shows and took part in the Russian TV show Stars on Ice [8]. On June, 2nd 2008 Alexei's Porsche containing one of his Gold World Championship Medals was stolen, both the medal and the car remain unlocated[9] On November 20, 2009 his girlfriend Tatiana Totmianina had his first child, a daughter.[10] [edit] Programs
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