Andrei Olegowitsch Minenkow

Andrei Minenkow
Full name	Andrei Olegowitsch Minenkow
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	December 6, 1954
place of birth	Moscow
size	183 cm
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Irina Moiseeva
society	Trud Moscow
Trainer	Tatiana Tarasowa, Natalia Dubowa, Lyudmila Pachomowa
status	resigned
End of career	1982
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 2 × 3 × 3 × EM medals 2 × 3 × 2 ×
winter Olympics silver Innsbruck 1976 Ice dance bronze Lake Placid 1980 Ice dance  World figure skating championships gold Colorado Springs 1975 Ice dance silver Gothenburg 1976 Ice dance gold Tokyo 1977 Ice dance silver Ottawa 1978 Ice dance bronze Vienna 1979 Ice dance bronze Dortmund 1980 Ice dance silver Hartford 1981 Ice dance bronze Copenhagen 1982 Ice dance  European figure skating championships silver Geneva 1976 Ice dance gold Helsinki 1977 Ice dance gold Strasbourg 1978 Ice dance silver Zagreb 1979 Ice dance bronze Gothenburg 1980 Ice dance silver Innsbruck 1981 Ice dance bronze Lyon 1982 Ice dance

Andrei Olegowitsch Minenkow ( Russian Андрей Олегович Миненков , born December 6, 1954 in Moscow ) is a former Russian figure skater who started in ice dancing for the Soviet Union .

His ice dance partner was Irina Moissejewa , with whom he is also married. The couple ran together from 1967, it had its debut at world and European championships in 1973. From 1975 to 1982 Moisejewa and Minenkow always reached the podium at world championships. In 1975 in Colorado Springs and 1977 in Tokyo they became world champions. In 1976 , 1978 and 1981 they became vice world champions and in 1979 , 1980 and 1982 they won the bronze medal. They were similarly successful at European Championships, where they always won a medal from 1976 to 1982. In 1977 in Helsinki and 1978 in Strasbourg they became European champions, in 1976 , 1979 and 1981 they won the silver medal and in 1980 and 1982 the bronze medal. At the first Olympic Games where ice dancing was part of the program, Moissejewa and Minenkow won the silver medal in Innsbruck in 1976, behind their compatriots Lyudmila Pachomowa and Alexander Gorshkov . At their second Olympic Games in 1980 in Lake Placid they won the bronze medal behind their compatriots Natalja Linitschuk and Gennadi Karponossow and the Hungarians Krisztina Regőczy and András Sallay .

Moissejewa and Minenkow were trained by Lyudmila Pachomowa , Natalia Dubowa and from 1969 by Tatyana Tarasova for ten years in Moscow .

Results

Ice dance

(with Irina Moissejewa )

Competition / year	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982
winter Olympics							2.				3.
World championships				7th	4th	1.	2.	1.	2.	3.	3.	2.	3.
European championships				7th	5.	4th	2.	1.	1.	2.	3.	2.	3.
Soviet championships	5.	4th	3.	3.	2.	3.	2.	1.		2.		2.	2.

Web links

• Andrei Olegowitsch Minenkow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Moiseyeva and Minenkow: Videos and Photos