Andrei Anatolyevich Bukin (, born 10 June 1957) is a Soviet and Russian former

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r who represented the

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in his competitive career. With his partner

Natalia Bestemianova Natalia Filimonovna Bestemianova or Bestemyanova (, born 6 January 1960) is a Soviet and Russian former competitive ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union. With her partner Andrei Bukin, she is the 1988 Winter Olympics, 1988 Olympic Champio ...

, he is the 1988 Olympic Champion, 1984 Olympic silver medalist, four-time

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, three-time World silver medalist, and five-time

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Career

Bukin began figure skating at age seven, entering the

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of CSKA in

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. The group trained at a small stadium in Chapayevsky Park near Pesochnaya Square. At age ten, he joined Spartak and began

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 ...

, originally training at the Small Sports Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium. In his early career, he was coached by Nadezhda Shirokova and his ice dancing partner was Olga Abankina, whom he married. In 1977, he joined the group of the famous coach Tatiana Tarasova, who paired him with

. Bukin was the USSR Olympic Team Flag Bearer at the

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. The duo capped their lengthy career by winning the gold medal there and at that year's

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Personal life

Bukin married former ice dancing partner, Olga Abankina, with whom he has a son Andrei (born 1983). With his current partner, Yelena Vasyukova, a former ice dancer, he has a son,

Ivan Bukin Ivan Andreyevich Bukin (; born 16 September 1993) is a Russian ice dancer. With his skating partner, Alexandra Stepanova, he is a five-time European medalist (silver in 2019 an2022 bronze in 2015, 2018 and 2020), the 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki ...

, born in 1993, who is also a competitive ice dancer.

Competitive highlights

With Bestemianova

With Abankina

Programs

(With Bestemianova)

References

External links

"Bobrin's Moscow Stars on Ice official site"

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bukin, Andrei 1957 births Living people Figure skaters from Moscow Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism alumni Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Olympic figure skaters for the Soviet Union Figure skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in figure skating Russian male ice dancers Soviet male ice dancers World Figure Skating Championships medalists European Figure Skating Championships medalists Medalists at the 1984 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics 20th-century Russian sportsmen