Andrei Anatolyevich Bukin

Andrei Bukin
Full name	Andrei Anatolyevich Bukin
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	June 20, 1957
place of birth	Moscow, Soviet Union
size	185 cm
Weight	63 kg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Olga Abankina, Natalja Bestemjanowa
society	Trud Moscow CSKA Moscow
Trainer	Tatiana Tarasova
status	resigned
End of career	1988
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 4 × 3 × 1 × EM medals 5 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Sarajevo 1984 Ice dance gold Calgary 1988 Ice dance  World figure skating championships bronze Hartford 1981 Ice dance silver Copenhagen 1982 Ice dance silver Helsinki 1983 Ice dance silver Ottawa 1984 Ice dance gold Tokyo 1985 Ice dance gold Geneva 1986 Ice dance gold Cincinnati 1987 Ice dance gold Budapest 1988 Ice dance  European figure skating championships silver Lyon 1982 Ice dance gold Dortmund 1983 Ice dance silver Budapest 1984 Ice dance gold Gothenburg 1985 Ice dance gold Copenhagen 1986 Ice dance gold Sarajevo 1987 Ice dance gold Prague 1988 Ice dance

Andrei Anatoljewitsch Bukin ( Russian Андрей Анатольевич Букин ; born June 20, 1957 in Moscow , Russian SFSR , USSR ) is a former Russian figure skater who competed in ice dancing for the Soviet Union .

Bukin started ice skating at CSKA Moscow at the age of seven . At the age of ten he went to Spartak Moscow and specialized in ice dancing. His first ice dance partner was Olga Abankina . In the late 1970s he joined Tatyana Tarasova's training group . From 1977 Natalia Bestemjanowa became his ice dance partner .

1979 Bestemjanowa and Bukin had their debut at world championships and 1980 at European championships and the Olympic Games . As early as 1981 they won their first medal with bronze at the world championships . In the first half of the 1980s, Bestemjanowa and Bukin were the strongest rivals of Britons Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean . However, you could never defeat them. In 1982 , 1983 and 1984 they were vice world champions and in 1982 and 1984 they were vice European champions behind the British. Their only title during this period they won at the 1983 European Championships in Dortmund , but in the absence of Torvill and Dean. Even at the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo , Bestemjanowa and Bukin had to be content with the silver medal. After the resignation of Torvill and Dean, Bestemjanowa and Bukin became the world's best ice dance couple by the end of the 1980s. From 1985 to 1988 they won all international championships in which they participated. They won the European Championships in 1985 , 1986 , 1987 and 1988 and the World Championships in 1985 , 1986 , 1987 and 1988 . In 1988 in Calgary they became Olympic champions . Bukin was also the flag bearer of his country at these Olympic Games.

With four World Cup titles and five European Championship titles, they are only surpassed by their compatriots Lyudmila Pachomowa and Alexander Gorschkow , who achieved a total of six World Cup and European Championship titles.

Bukin is married to his first ice dance partner, Olga Abankina. With her he has a son Andrei (* 1983). The couple separated but never divorced. With his current partner Jelena Wasjukowa, a former ice dancer, he also has a son Iwan Bukin (* 1993), who became vice junior world champion in 2012 as an ice dancer.

From 1986 Bukin appeared with Natalja Bestemjanowa in Bobrin's Ice Theater Moscow, which is led by Bestemyanowa's husband Igor Bobrin .

Results

Ice dance

(with Natalja Bestemjanowa )

Competition / year	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988
winter Olympics			8th.				2.				1.
World championships		10.		3.	2.	2.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.
European championships			6th	4th	2.	1.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.
Soviet championships	3.	4th	2.	3.	1.	1.		2.		1.

Web links

• Andrei Anatoljewitsch Bukin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• "Bukin at Moscow Stars on Ice"