Aleksandr Gorshkov
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Aleksandr Georgievich Gorshkov (Russian: Александр Георгиевич Горшков) (born October 8, 1946 in Moscow) is a figure skating champion from the former Soviet Union.
Gorshkov trained at Dynamo. His skating partner was Lyudmila Pakhomova. They began skating competitively in 1967 and married in 1970. They were World champions from 1971 to 1974 and won their fifth World title in 1976 soon followed by the first gold medal awarded for ice dancing at the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Lyudmila Pakhomova died of cancer in 1986.
In 1988, Gorshkov was inducted along with his wife (posthumously) into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
He is the chairman of the ISU's ice dance technical committee.
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1976: Lyudmila Pakhomova & Aleksandr Gorshkov | 1980: Natalia Linichuk & Gennadi Karponossov | 1984: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean | 1988: Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin | 1992: Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko | 1994: Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov | 1998: Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov | 2002: Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat | 2006: Tatiana Navka & Roman Kostomarov |
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1954-1955: Jean Westwood & Lawrence Demmy | 1956: Pamela Weight & Paul Thomas | 1957-1958: June Markham & Courtney Jones | 1959-1961: Doreen Denny & Courtney Jones | 1962: Christiane Guhel & Jean Paul Guhel | 1963: Linda Shearman & Michael Phillips | 1964-1965: Eva Romanová & Pavel Roman | 1966-1969: Diane Towler & Bernard Ford | 1970-1971: Lyudmila Pakhomova & Aleksandr Gorshkov | 1972: Angelika Buck & Erich Buck | 1973-1976: Lyudmila Pakhomova & Aleksandr Gorshkov | 1977-1978: Irina Moiseyeva & Andrei Minenkov | 1979-1980: Natalia Linichuk & Gennadi Karponossov | 1981-1982: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean | 1983: Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin | 1984: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean | 1985-1988: Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin | 1989-1992: Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko | 1993: Maya Usova & Alexander Zhulin | 1994: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean | 1995: Susanna Rahkamo & Petri Kokko | 1996-1998: Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov | 1999: Anjelika Krylova & Oleg Ovsyannikov | 2000: Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat | 2001: Barbara Fusar-Poli & Maurizio Margaglio | 2002: Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat | 2003: Irina Lobacheva & Ilia Averbukh | 2004-2006: Tatiana Navka & Roman Kostomarov | |
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