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Marina Zoueva
Marina Olegovna Zoueva or Zueva (; born 9 April 1956) is a Russian figure skating coach, choreographer, and former competitor in ice dancing. Representing the Soviet Union with Andrei Vitman, she placed 5th at the 1977 World Championships and won two medals at Skate Canada International. She has coached a number of skaters to Olympic medals, including Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov (gold in 1994), Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (gold in 2010), Meryl Davis / Charlie White (gold in 2014), and Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani (bronze in 2018). Personal life Zoueva was born on 9 April 1956. She is the mother of Fedor Andreev – born 2 March 1982 in Moscow – who competed for Canada as a singles skater and Russia as an ice dancer. She is a naturalized Canadian citizen but works mainly in the United States. Zueva was formerly married to Alexei Tchetverukhin. She holds a master's degree of physical science from Saint Petersburg State University. Career As a competitor Z ...
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Tessa Virtue
Tessa Jane McCormick Virtue (born May 17, 1989) is a Canadian retired ice dancer. With ice dance partner Scott Moir, she is the 2010 and 2018 Olympic champion, the 2014 Olympic silver medallist, a three-time World champion (2010, 2012, 2017), a three-time Four Continents champion (2008, 2012, 2017), the 2016–17 Grand Prix Final champion, an eight-time Canadian National champion (2008–2010, 2012–2014, 2017–2018), the 2006 World Junior champion and the 2006 Junior Grand Prix gold medallists. Virtue and Moir are also the 2018 Olympic gold medallists in the team event and the 2014 Olympic silver medallists in the team event. Upon winning their third Olympic gold they became the most decorated Olympic figure skaters of all time. Widely regarded as one of the greatest ice dance teams of all time, they are the only ice dancers in history to achieve a Super Slam, having won all major international competitions in their senior and junior careers. Virtue and Moir are hol ...
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Canadians
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geograph ...
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Anna Cappellini
Anna Cappellini (born 19 February 1987) is an Italian ice dancer. With partner Luca Lanotte, she is the 2014 World Figure Skating Championships, 2014 World champion, the 2014 European Figure Skating Championships, 2014 European champion, the 2015 Cup of China champion and a thirteen-time medalist on the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Grand Prix series, and a seven-time Italian Figure Skating Championships, Italian national champion (2012–18). Personal life Cappellini was born 19 February 1987 in Como, Italy. She is a member of the Polizia Penitenziaria's sports group, the Fiamme Azzurre. She has expressed interest in studying physiotherapy after her skating career is over. In August 2014, it was announced that she was engaged to pair skater Ondřej Hotárek. The couple married on June 20, 2015, in Como, Italy. Their daughter Diana was born on July 2, 2021. Early career Cappellini started skating at the age of three and switched to ice dance when she was 11 or 12. She skated ...
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Benjamin Agosto
Benjamin Alexandro Agosto (born January 15, 1982) is an American ice dancer. With partner Tanith Belbin, Agosto is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, a four-time World medalist, the 2004–2006 Four Continents champion, and 2004–2008 U.S. champion. Personal life Benjamin Agosto was born January 15, 1982, in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Northbrook, Illinois. He is the son of a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother whose family have roots in Romania and Russia. Agosto attended grade school at the Chicago Waldorf School, then spent two years at Glenbrook North High School, and graduated with honors from Michigan's Groves High School in June 2000. He played in a high school jazz band. Agosto lived in Detroit, Michigan, from June 1998 and then Canton, Michigan, before moving to Aston, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2008. He relocated to Lacey, Washington, in September 2010 and then to Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2014. Career Early years Agosto started skating at ...
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Tanith Belbin
Tanith Jessica Louise Belbin White (born July 11, 1984) is a Canadian American ice dancing, ice dancer and Olympic program host for NBC Sports. Though born in Canada, she holds Multiple citizenship, dual citizenship and has competed for the United States since she began skating with Benjamin Agosto in 1998. With Agosto, Belbin is the Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics, 2006 Olympic silver medalist, four-time World Figure Skating Championships, World medalist, three-time Four Continents Championships, Four Continents champion (2004–2006), and five-time United States Figure Skating Championships, U.S. champion (2004–2008). Personal life Tanith Belbin was born in Kingston, Ontario, and raised in Kirkland, Quebec. In 1998, she moved to the Detroit area in the United States and received an immigrant worker visa in 2000. Due to immigration rules at the time, she did not receive a Permanent residence (United States), green card until July 2002 and would not have been granted ...
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Berk Akalın
Berk Akalın (born January 20, 1995) is a retired Turkish ice dancer. With wife and former ice dance partner, Katarina DelCamp, he competed at the 2025 European Championships and the 2025 World Championships. They are also the 2025 Ephesus Cup bronze medalists. With former ice dance partner, Yuliia Zhata, he competed at the 2021 World Championships. With former ice dance partner, Çağla Demirsal, he is the 2011 Turkish national champion and placed fourteenth at the 2013 World Junior Championships. Personal life Akalın was born on 20 January 1995 in Bursa, Turkey. He married his skating partner, Katarina DelCamp, on 7 December 2022 in West Palm Beach, Florida after just a three-day-long engagement. The couple married again in Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its ur ...
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Estero, Florida
Estero (Spanish for "estuary") is an incorporated village in Lee County, Florida, United States, located directly beside the first aquatic nature preserve established in Florida: The Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve, otherwise referred to as Estero Bay Preserve State Park which is within Estero Bay, Florida. At the time of the 2010 census, Estero was an unincorporated community and census-designated place, but incorporated as a village on the last calendar date of 2014. It is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,939. Sandwiched along Florida's Gulf Coast between Naples to the south and Fort Myers to the north, Estero is known as a popular destination for high-end shopping and dining as well as for exploring history and wildlife at its two state parks: Mound Key Archaeological State Park, which is only attainable by boat, canoe, or kayak and the Koreshan State Historic Site. Estero is also known for ...
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Igor Shpilband
Igor Yuryevich Shpilband (, born July 14, 1964) is an American ice dancing coach and former competitor for the Soviet Union. He is the 1983 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, World Junior champion with former partner Tatiana Gladkova. Personal life Shpilband was born in Moscow on July 14, 1964, to a Jewish family. In 1990, he and several other Soviet skaters were part of a U.S. tour headlined by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean when one of them, Gorsha Sur, decided to defection, defect; Shpilband, Veronica Pershina and Elena Krykanova decided to join him. Shpilband got a coaching position in Detroit not long after. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 2000. With his former wife Veronica Pershina, he has a son, Maxim, and a daughter, Ekaterina, a competitive figure skater for the United States. In 2006, he became engaged to skating coach Adrienne Lenda. Competitive and coaching career Shpilband was coached by Lyudmila Pakhomova from age 12 to 20. He and h ...
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Canton, Michigan
Canton Township (commonly known simply as Canton) is a charter township in Wayne County, Michigan, Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A western Metro Detroit, suburb of Detroit, Canton is located roughly west of downtown Detroit, and east of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ann Arbor. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the township had a population of 98,659, making it Michigan's second most-populated township (after Clinton Township, Macomb County, Michigan, Clinton Township) and List of municipalities in Michigan (by population), ninth most-populated municipality overall. The township is ranked as the 96th highest-income place in the United States with a population of 50,000 or more, and is consistently ranked as one of the safest communities in the United States. Communities *Canton is an unincorporated community within the township, although the name often refers to the whole township itself. It is located just south of M-153 (Michigan highway), M-153 (Ford Roa ...
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1978 World Figure Skating Championships
The 1978 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from March 7 to 12. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Vern Taylor of Canada became the first person to land a triple axel (albeit over rotated), in competition. Medal tables Medalists Medals by country Results Men Referee: * Sonia Bianchetti Assistant Referee: * Benjamin T. Wright Judges: * Gerhard Frey * Oskar Urban * Ludwig Gassner * Ramona McIntyre * Pamela Peat * Walburga Grimm * Kinuko Ueno * Dorothy MacLeod * Monique Georgelin Substitute judge: * Ferenc Kertész Ladies Referee: * Elemér Terták Assistant Referee: * David Dore Judges: * Walter Hüttner * Pamela Davis * Margaret Berezowski * Goro Ishimaru * Ingrid Linke * Markus Germann * Eva von Gamm * Giorgio Siniscalco * E. Newbold Black IV Substitute judge: * Leena Vaini ...
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1978 European Figure Skating Championships
The 1978 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior-level international competition held in Strasbourg, France from January 31 to February 5. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU member nations competed for the title of European Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Competition notes 15-year-old Denise Biellmann became the first female skater to land the triple lutz in competition. She underrotated it, with two-foot landing.Archived aGhostarchiveand thWayback Machine At the same event, she became the first woman to receive a 6.0 in technical merit, receiving the score from British judge Pauline Borrajo. She was 12th in figures, first in the free skating, and finished fourth overall. Another triple lutz was performed only by Jan Hoffmann Jan Hoffmann (born 26 October 1955) is a German figure skater who represented East Germany in competition. A four-time Olympian, he is the 1980 Olympic s ...
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1977 European Figure Skating Championships
The 1977 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior-level international competition held in Helsinki, Finland. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU member nations competed for the title of European Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A .... Results Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing References External links results {{European Figure Skating Championships European Figure Skating Championships, 1977 European Figure Skating Championships, 1977 European Figure Skating Championships International figure skating competitions hosted by Finland International sports competitions in Helsinki 1970s in Helsinki ...
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