Marina Klimova
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Figure skating | |||
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Competitor for  Soviet Union |
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| Bronze | 1984 Sarajevo | Ice dancing | |
| Silver | 1988 Calgary | Ice dancing | |
Competitor for  Unified Team |
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| Gold | 1992 Albertville | Ice dancing | |
Marina Vladimirovna Klimova (Russian: Марина Владимировна Климова) (born June 28, 1966 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian figure skater in ice dancing. Her skating partner and husband is Sergei Ponomarenko. She trained at Spartak in Moscow.
In addition to winning three World Championships and four European Championships, Klimova and Ponomarenko are the only figure skaters in any discipline to have won Olympic medals in three different colors. They won the bronze medal in 1984 Sarajevo, the silver medal in 1988 Calgary for the USSR and the gold medal in 1992 Albertville for the Unified Team.
Klimova and Ponomarenko married in 1984 and have two sons, Tim Ponomarenko born in 1998 and Anthony Ponomarenko in 2000. They turned professional after the 1992 World Championships. They now reside in the United States in Morgan Hill, California and coach young figure skaters at the Logitech Ice at San Jose, California.
Klimova and Ponomarenko were inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame (2000).
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[edit] Competitive highlights
| Event | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1995 | 1996 |
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| Olympic Games | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | |||||||||
| World Championships | 4th | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | |||
| European Championships | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |||
| Professional World Championships | 2nd | 2nd |
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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 |
Categories: Russian figure skaters | Soviet figure skaters | Ice dancers | Olympic figure skaters of the Soviet Union | Figure skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics | Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics | Figure skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics | Winter Olympics medalists | Olympic gold medalists for the Unified Team | Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union | Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union | Spartak athletes | People from San Jose, California | 1966 births | Living people
