Oleg Vladimirovich Ovsyannikov

Oleg Ovsyannikov
Full name	Oleg Vladimirovich Ovsyannikov
nation	Russia Soviet Union
birthday	January 23, 1970
place of birth	Moscow
size	184 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Anselika Krylova
Former partner	Jelena Kustarowa, Maria Orlowa
Trainer	Natalja Linitschuk, Gennady Karponosov
choreographer	Sergei Fokin
status	resigned
End of career	1999
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 2 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 3 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver Nagano 1998 Ice dance  World figure skating championships silver Edmonton 1996 Ice dance silver Lausanne 1997 Ice dance gold Minneapolis 1998 Ice dance gold Helsinki 1999 Ice dance  European figure skating championships bronze Dortmund 1995 Ice dance silver Sofia 1996 Ice dance silver Paris 1997 Ice dance silver Milan 1998 Ice dance gold Prague 1999 Ice dance

Oleg Wladimirowitsch Ovsjannikow ( Russian Олег Владимирович Овсянников , born January 23, 1970 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian figure skater who competed in ice dancing for the Soviet Union and Russia .

At the age of four, Ovsjannikow fell ill with pneumonia. After he recovered from this, the doctors advised his parents to do some exercise, preferably in the fresh air. That's how he got into ice skating. At the age of ten he switched from running to ice dancing. Ovsjannikow was one of Lyudmila Pachomova's last students . At the side of Maria Orlowa he won the Junior World Championship in 1988 . With Jelena Kustarowa he stood on the podium at the Russian ice dance championships in 1993 and 1994 .

From the 1994/1995 season, Anschelika Krylowa was his ice dance partner. The pair was trained in Newark , Delaware by the 1980 Olympic ice dance champions , Natalja Linitschuk and Gennady Karponosov . Krylova and Ovsyannikov became Russian champions straight away . On their debut at European Championships they won the bronze medal and on their world championship debut they finished fifth.

At the European Championships in 1996 , 1997 and 1998 , the World Championships in 1996 and 1997 and the Olympic Games, Krylova and Ovsjannikow always won the silver medal behind their compatriots Oxana Grishchuk and Yevgeny Platov . After their resignation, they won their first title at the 1998 World Cup in Minneapolis . In 1999 they became European champions in Prague and defended their world championship title in Helsinki . These were her last competitions, as doctors advised Krylowa to end her career in preparation for the new season, as she was in danger of being paralyzed due to existing back problems. Krylowa advised Ovsyannikov to continue his career with another runner, which he refused. After a year off, they both ran together for the pros.

Ovsjannikow worked as a trainer in Newark, New Jersey, together with his wife Angelika Kirchmayr , a Russian ice dancer who won the 1989 World Junior Championship. Their daughter was born in 2006. In 2007 Ovsyannikov was appointed head coach of the national synchronized figure skating formation by the Russian Federation .

Results

Ice dance

(with Anselika Krylowa )

Competition / year	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
winter Olympics				2.
World championships	5.	2.	2.	1.	1.
European championships	3.	2.	2.	2.	1.
Russian championships	1.	2.		1.	1.

Z = withdrawn

(with Jelena Kustarowa )

Competition / year	1992	1993	1994
Soviet championships	4th
Russian championships		2.	3.

(with Maria Orlowa )

Competition / year	1988
Junior World Championships	3.

Web links

• Oleg Wladimirowitsch Ovsjannikow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ http://vremya.ru/2010/223/11/265936.html
3. ↑ http://www.udel.edu/eli/05news/05graduates.html
4. ↑ http://www.sovsport.ru/news/text-item/260568