 Aleksandr Gorshkov in 2008 |
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name: | Aleksandr Georgievich Gorshkov |
| Country represented: |  Soviet Union |
| Date of birth: | October 8, 1946 |
| Place of birth: | Moscow |
| Height: | 173 cm (5.7 ft) |
| Former partner: | Lyudmila Pakhomova |
| Olympic medal record | ||
| Competitor for the Soviet Union |
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| Figure skating | ||
| Gold | 1976 Innsbruck | Ice dancing |
Aleksandr Georgievich Gorshkov (Russian: Александр Георгиевич Горшков) (born October 8, 1946 in Moscow) is an ice dancer who competed internationally for the Soviet Union. With partner Lyudmila Pakhomova, he is the 1976 Olympic Champion.
Biography
Gorshkov trained at Dynamo. His skating partner was his wife, Lyudmila Pakhomova. They began skating competitively in 1967 and married in 1970. They were World champions from 1970 to 1974 and won their sixth world title in 1976. At the 1976 Winter Olympics, they won the first Olympic gold medal awarded for ice dancing. Gorshkov later served as the chairman of the International Skating Union's ice dance technical committee.
Gorshkov was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1988, along with Pakhomova, who was inducted posthumously as she died of cancer in 1986.[1]
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