Alexander Judayevich Gorelik

Alexander Gorelik
Full name	Alexander Judayevich Gorelik
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	August 9, 1945
place of birth	Moscow,  Soviet Union
size	183 cm
Weight	82 kg
date of death	27th September 2012 (age 67)
Place of death	Tutschkovo,  Russia
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Tatiana Schuk
society	CSKA Moscow
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver Grenoble 1968 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze Colorado Springs 1965 Couples silver Davos 1966 Couples silver Geneva 1968 Couples  European figure skating championships bronze Moscow 1965 Couples silver Bratislava 1966 Couples

Alexander Judajewitsch Gorelik ( Russian Александр Юдаевич Горелик ; born August 9, 1945 in Moscow , Soviet Union ; † September 27, 2012 in Tutschkowo , Moscow Oblast , Russia ) was a Soviet figure skater who started in pair skating .

Gorelik began his pair skating career with Tatiana Sharanova . With her he was seventh at the European Championships in 1964 .

Then Gorelik stood on the side of Tatiana Schuk . With her he won the bronze medal straight away in 1965 at both the European Championship and the World Championship , both times in victories for Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov . In 1966 Gorelik and Schuk improved and became vice European champions in Bratislava and vice world champions behind their compatriots in Davos . They achieved the same result in their last appearance at the World Championships in 1968 in Geneva and at the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble , where they won the silver medal behind Belousova and Protopopov.

In 1969, Tatyana Schuk became pregnant. Then she ended her amateur career to the chagrin of Alexander Gorelik. After the attempt to make a couple with Irina Rodnina failed, he too ended his career. Later he worked as an actor and also appeared for a short time with Schuk in ice revues. He coached the Soviet figure skating team at the 1976 Olympics . Gorelik has been commenting for Russian television since 2001.

Results

Pair skating

(with Tatjana Schuk )

Competition / year	1965	1966	1967	1968
winter Olympics				2.
World championships	3.	2.		2.
European championships	3.	2.
Soviet championships		2.

Web links

• Alexander Judajewitsch Gorelik in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Aleksandr Gorelik in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death report to the Interfax agency (Russian)