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Oksana Gritschuk and Evgeny Platov at the European championships 1994 in
Copenhagen
Evgeny Platov (born August 7, 1967, in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR) is a professional ice dancer who represented the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, and Russia in international competition. With former partner Oksana Grishuk, he is the 1994 and 1998 Olympic Champion and four time World Champion. After retiring from competitive skating, he had a falling out with Oksana, now known as Pasha. As a result, he skated professionally with former rival Maya Usova, who Pasha depised. He was briefly married to former figure-skater turned actress Maria Anikanova in 1991, but divorced in 1997. [1]
Platov currently works as a coach in New Jersey and has coached World, European and Olympic Champions. He was an assistant coach to his former coach Tatiana Tarasova from 2002-2004 along with Maya Usova. He helped coach Olympic Champion Shizuka Arakawa to her only world title in 2004 and briefly worked with Sasha Cohen and Johnny Weir under the guidance of Tarasova. In the fall of 2005 he became the assistant coach to his former rival, Alexander Zhulin, where he coached Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov to European and Olympic gold medals. He started coaching on his own when Zhulin left New Jersey to go back to Russia. Among his students are Sinead & John Kerr. He formerly coached Galit Chait & Sergei Sakhnovski and Alexandra & Roman Zaretski. The Zaretskis were forced to leave him because Boris Chait, the head of Israel Skating federation wanted them to be coached by his daughter Galit Chait.
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