Nina Alexeevna Zhuk ( nee: Bakusheva) (; born 9 July 1934 in Savino,

Yaroslavl Oblast Yaroslavl Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), which is located in the Central Federal District, surrounded by the Tver Oblast, Tver, Moscow Oblast, Moscow, Ivanovo Oblast, Ivanovo, Vladimir Oblast, Vlad ...

) is a retired

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 ...

who represented the

Soviet Union 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 ...

in competition. With her husband

Stanislav Zhuk Stanislav Alekseyevich Zhuk (, ; 25 January 1935 – 1 November 1998) was a pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With his wife Nina Zhuk, Nina, he won three silver medals at the European Figure Skating Championships and finished sixth at ...

, she is the 1958-1960 European silver medalist. They placed 6th at the

1960 Winter Olympics The 1960 Winter Olympics (officially the VIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Squaw Valley 1960) were a winter multi-sport event held from February 18 to 28, 1960, at the Squaw Valley Resort (now known as Palisades Tahoe) in Squaw Valley ...

Competitive highlights

(with Zhuk)

References

*
Sports-reference profile

Navigation

1934 births Living people Russian female pair skaters Soviet female pair skaters Olympic figure skaters for the Soviet Union Figure skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics European Figure Skating Championships medalists Soviet figure skating coaches Female sports coaches Sportspeople from Yaroslavl Oblast 20th-century Russian sportswomen {{ussr-figure-skating-bio-stub