Alexander Vyacheslavovich Schulin

Alexander Schulin
Alexander Schulin, 2010
Full name	Alexander Vyacheslavovich Schulin
nation	Soviet Union United Team Russia
birthday	July 20, 1963
place of birth	Moscow
size	176 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Maya Ussova
Trainer	Natalia Dubova
status	resigned
End of career	1994
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 2 × EM medals 1 × 3 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze Albertville 1992 Ice dance silver Lillehammer 1994 Ice dance  World figure skating championships silver Paris 1989 Ice dance bronze Halifax 1990 Ice dance bronze Munich 1991 Ice dance silver Oakland 1992 Ice dance gold Prague 1993 Ice dance  European figure skating championships silver Birmingham 1989 Ice dance silver Leningrad 1990 Ice dance bronze Sofia 1991 Ice dance silver Lausanne 1992 Ice dance gold Helsinki 1993 Ice dance bronze Copenhagen 1994 Ice dance

Alexander Vyacheslavovich Schulin ( Russian Александр Вячеславович Жулин ; born July 20, 1963 in Kaliningrad near Moscow ) is a Russian figure skater who competed in ice dancing for the Soviet Union , the United Team and Russia .

Alexander Schulin and Maja Ussowa at a show in West Berlin in 1989

Alexander Schulin started with Maja Ussowa in ice dancing. Her trainer was Natalja Dubowa . In the period from 1989 to 1994, they won a medal at all of the major international championships in which they competed. In 1993 they became European champions in Helsinki and world champions in Prague . Ussova and Schulin also stood on the podium at both of their Olympic Games . In 1992 in Albertville they won the bronze medal and in 1994 in Lillehammer the silver medal. The couple married while still being amateur in 1986. However, the marriage ended in divorce due to Schulin's affair with Oxana Grishchuk .

Maja Ussowa and Alexander Schulin ended their amateur careers in 1994, became professionals, performed at ice shows and won various professional competitions. After the divorce from Maja Ussowa, an ice dance partner swap took place. While Maja Ussowa appeared from then on with Yevgeny Platov , Alexander Schulin ran with Oksana Grishchuk. The couple Grishchuk / Schulin separated again.

In 2000 Alexander Schulin married the ice dancer Tatjana Nawka . Their daughter Sasha was born in May 2000. The family lived in New Jersey but returned to Moscow in 2006. At the end of 2007, they announced their split. Schulin was his wife's trainer and her ice dance partner Roman Kostomarow . He later trained Nathalie Péchalat and Fabian Bourzat as well as Jelena Iljinych and Nikita Kazalapow .

Alexander Schulin and Maja Ussowa at the free-style of the European Championships in Copenhagen in 1994

Results

Ice dance

(with Maja Ussowa )

Competition / year	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
winter Olympics									3.		2.
World championships						2.	3.	3.	2.	1.
European championships					4th	2.	2.	3.	2.	1.	3.
Soviet championships	2.		3.	3.	3.	2.	2.	1.

Web links

Commons : Alexander Schulin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alexander Vyacheslavovich Schulin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )