Georgi Ermolayevich Proskurin (; 13 June 1945 – 10 July 2004) was a

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. He was born in

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. With Galina Karelina, he is the 1971 European bronze medalist. With Tatiana Tarasova, he won the 1966

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, which he repeated again in 1972 with Karelina. In total, he is a five-time Soviet national medalist with Karelina, Tarasova, and Galina Sedova.

Competitive highlights

With Karelina

With Tarasova

With Sedova

References

Skatabase: European Championships » Pairs 1960-1969

{{DEFAULTSORT:Proskurin, Georgi 1945 births 2004 deaths Soviet male pair skaters Russian male pair skaters Figure skaters from Moscow European Figure Skating Championships medalists Winter World University Games medalists in figure skating FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union Competitors at the 1966 Winter Universiade 20th-century Russian sportsmen