Natalia Vladimirovna Linichuk

Natalja Linitschuk
Natalja Linitschuk and Gennady Karponosov as coaches at the Cup of Russia 2010
Full name	Natalia Vladimirovna Linichuk
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	February 6, 1956
place of birth	Moscow
size	173 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Gennady Karponosov
society	Dynamo Moscow
Trainer	Jelena Tchaikovskaya
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 1 × 2 × EM medals 2 × 1 × 5 ×
winter Olympics gold Lake Placid 1980 Ice dance  World figure skating championships bronze Munich 1974 Ice dance bronze Tokyo 1977 Ice dance gold Ottawa 1978 Ice dance gold Vienna 1979 Ice dance silver Dortmund 1980 Ice dance  European figure skating championships bronze Zagreb 1974 Ice dance bronze Copenhagen 1975 Ice dance bronze Geneva 1976 Ice dance bronze Helsinki 1977 Ice dance silver Strasbourg 1978 Ice dance gold Zagreb 1979 Ice dance gold Gothenburg 1980 Ice dance bronze Innsbruck 1981 Ice dance

Natalja Wladimirowna Linitschuk ( Russian: Наталья Владимировна Линичук ; born February 6, 1956 in Moscow ) is a former Russian figure skater who competed in ice dancing for the Soviet Union .

Career

Linichuk's ice dance partner was Gennady Karponosov . They were trained by Jelena Tchaikovskaya . In the period from 1974 to 1981 they took part in all European championships and always reached the podium. In 1979 in Zagreb and 1980 in Göteborg they became European champions, 1978 vice European champions and in 1974 , 1975 , 1976 , 1977 and 1981 they won the bronze medal. At world championships she attended from 1974 to 1980. In 1978 in Ottawa and 1979 in Vienna they became world champions. In 1980 they won silver and in 1974 and 1977 bronze. Linichuk and Karponosov played two Olympic Games . In 1976 in Innsbruck , at the first Olympic Games with ice dancing in the program, they took fourth place and in 1980 in Lake Placid they became Olympic champions , becoming the Olympic successors of their country folk Lyudmila Pachomowa and Alexander Gorshkov .

Gennady Karponosov (left) with Natalja Linitschuk (right), with her students Oxana Domnina and Maxim Schabalin in between, 2008

In 1981 Natalja Linitschuk and Gennady Karponosov ended their careers as active figure skaters. They married on July 31, 1981.

The couple initially lived on in Moscow. Linichuk and Karponosov together became successful ice dance coaches. They later went to the USA , first to Delaware and then to Pennsylvania . They trained among others Oxana Grishchuk / Evgeni Platow , Anselika Krylowa / Oleg Ovsjannikow , Irina Lobatschewa / Ilja Awerbuch , Oxana Domnina / Maxim Schabalin (all Russia ), Galit Chait / Sergei Sachnowski and Natalja Gudina / Alexei Beletski (all Israel ), Albena Denkowa / Maxim Stawiski ( Bulgaria ) and the Americans Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto .

Results

Ice dance

(with Gennady Karponosov )

Competition / year	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981
winter Olympics			4th				1.
World championships	3.	4th	5.	3.	1.	1.	2.
European championships	3.	3.	3.	3.	2.	1.	1.	3.
Soviet championships		2.	1.	2.		1.		1.

Web links

• Natalja Wladimirowna Linitschuk in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )