Alexei Yagudin

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Olympic medalist
Alexei Yagudin at the short program at the 2002 XIX Olympic Winter Games
Medal record
Men's figure skating
Gold	2002 Salt Lake City	Singles

Alexei Yagudin

Alexei Yagudin at the free skate at the 2002 World Championships
Personal Info
Country:	Russia
Residence:	St. Petersburg, Russia
Height:	175 cm
Coach:	Tatiana Tarasova
Skating Club:	Yubileyny Sports Palace
ISU Personal Best Scores

Most Recent Results:
Event	Finish	Year
Olympic Winter Games	1st	2002
World Championships	1st	2002
European Championships	1st	2002

Alexei Konstantinovich Yagudin (ru: Алексей Константинович Ягудин) (born March 18, 1980 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian figure skater. Yagudin was the 2002 Olympic champion as well as a four-time World Champion, a two-time World Professional Figure Skating Champion, a three-time European Champion, and three-time Grand Prix Final gold medalist.

Contents 1 Biography and Early Competition 2 1998 - 2002 3 Retirement and Professional career 4 Personal life 5 Competitive Highlights 5.1 Other events 6 Programs 7 See also 8 External links 9 Navigation

[edit] Biography and Early Competition

Alexei began skating at the age of 4, encouraged by his mother, Zoya. He began competing internationally in 1994, and won the World Junior Figure Skating Championships. Yagudin was coached by Alexei Mishin from approximately age twelve to age eighteen. During his six years in Mishin's group, he developed a fierce rivalry with his training partner Evgeni Plushenko. In 1999, he relocated to the United States to train with legendary coach Tatiana Tarasova, who continued to coach him until his retirement in 2003.

[edit] 1998 - 2002

Yagudin won his first major title at the 1998 European Championships leading a Russian sweep of the medals, with Plushenko in second and Alexander Abt in third. One month later he placed fifth at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. With 1998 Olympic champion Ilia Kulik's retirement, Yagudin was seen as the heir apparent to Russia's long line of men's singles champions. He captured the 1998 World Championship title, establishing himself as the top skater in the world.

Yagudin continued his success during the 1998-1999 season. He won the Grand Prix Final, though he lost the 1999 Russian National title to Plushenko. However, Yagudin won his second European Championship over Plushenko and former Olympic champion Alexei Urmanov in the Czech Republic later that month. Yagudin again won the World Championship that season, his second consecutively. That same year, in 1999, Russia again established its dominance in all four skating disciplines, winning gold in the men's event (Yagudin), ladies (Maria Butyrskaya), pairs (Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze) as well as ice dance (Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov).

Alexei struggled during the 1999-2000 season, losing to Plushenko at the Russian Championships and European Championships. However, he came back to win the 2000 World Championships. He continued to struggle the following season, losing every event in which he competed against Plushenko. However, the following year, an Olympic year, he won every event in which he entered. He won the Triple Crown of figure skating; the Grand Prix Final, the European Championships and the Olympic Winter Games. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Yagudin won the gold medal with such ease that he was the first male skater in 50 years to earn the first-place votes of every judge in all stages of the competition. He was given four perfect 6.0's for presentation. No other man has ever scored more than one perfect mark in the history of the Olympic games.

At the World Figure Skating Championships in Japan in 2002, he became the first skater to receive six perfect 6.0's for presentation and the first to receive a perfect 6.0 for required elements.

[edit] Retirement and Professional career

A congenital hip disorder forced him to retire from eligible competition in 2003. Alexei then turned professional, and he is currently touring with Stars on Ice and Ice Symphony in Russia.

[edit] Personal life

In 2003, Yagudin was arrested for DUI. His problems with alcohol also saw him kicked off the Champions on Ice tour in 1999.

He is currently dating former ice dancer Anastasia Gorshkova.

[edit] Competitive Highlights

Event/Season	1993-1994	1995-1996	1996-1997	1997-1998	1998-1999	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002
Russian Championships	-	-	-	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd	-
European Championships	-	6th	5th	1st	1st	2nd	2nd	1st
Junior World Championships	4th	1st	-	-	-	-	-	-
World Championships	-	-	3rd	1st	1st	1st	2nd	1st
Winter Olympics	-	-	-	5th	-	-	-	1st
Champions/Grand Prix Final	-	-	-	5th	1st	1st	2nd	1st
Skate America	-	-	2nd	-	1st	1st	2nd	-
Cup of Russia	-	-	2nd	1st	-	-	-	-
Nations Cup	-	-	3rd	-	-	-	-	-
Sparkassen Cup	-	-	-	-	1st	-	-	-
Skate Canada Int.	-	-	-	-	-	1st	1st	1st
Trophee Lalique	-	-	-	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st
Masters of Figure Skating	-	-	-	2nd	2nd	1st	1st	1st
Japan Open	-	-	-	-	-	-	1st	-
Event/Season	1993-1994	1995-1996	1996-1997	1997-1998	1998-1999	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002

[edit] Other events

• 2006

• 1st place at Ice Wars
• 6th place at the Japan Open

• 2005

• 2nd place at the World Team Challenge
• 2nd place at Ice Wars

• 2004

• 1st place at the World Team Challenge
• 1st place at Ice Wars

• 2003

• 3rd place at the World Team Challenge

• 2002:

• 1st place at Hallmark Skater's Challenge
• 5th place at the International Challenge
• 1st place at the Canadian Open
• 1st place at Top Jump
• 1st place at Campbell's International Classic

• 2001:

• 3rd place at the Goodwill Games

• 1998:

• 1st place at the World Professional Figure Skating Championships
• 1st place at the World Team Challenge

• 1996:

• 2nd place at the Centennial on Ice

• 1994:

• 8th place at the Goodwill Games

[edit] Programs

Season	Program	Type
2006-2007	Blues for Klook Legenda Racing	TP AP EX
2005-2006	Sway Shout Winter	AP TP EX
2004-2005	The Passion Moon Over Bourbon Street Shout	AP TP EX
2003-2004	Memorial Racing Feelings Ain't That A Shame	LP SP EX EX
2002-2003	Overcome Racing Born to Be Wild	LP SP EX
2001-2002	The Man In The Iron Mask Winter Overcome	LP SP EX
2000-2001	Gladiator The Revolutionary Etude My Baby You Stand By Me	LP SP EX EX
1999-2000	Tosca Broken Arrow Nutrocker September Morn	LP LP SP EX
1998-1999	Lawrence of Arabia The Revisionist's Tale Prilyudie	LP SP EX
1997-1998	Troika Ziganotchka Mack the Knife	LP SP EX
1996-1997	Carmen - Danse Boheme Ruslan & Ludmila One Banana	LP SP EX
1995-1996	Gaite Parisienne Nutcracker	LP SP

[edit] See also

• List of Olympic medalists in figure skating
• World Figure Skating Championships
• European Figure Skating Championships

[edit] External links

• Figure-Skating.com: Alexei Yagudin - Official website
• ISU Biography Page
• "Stars on Ice" Profile
• olympics.org Athlete Profile - Yagudin

[edit] Navigation

Persondata
NAME	Yagudin, Alexei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Yagudin, Alexei Konstantinovich
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Russian figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint Petersburg, Russia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH