Andrei Wassiljewitsch Buschkow

Andrei Buschkow
Andrei Buschkow in Lake Arrowhead in 2006
Full name	Andrei Wassiljewitsch Buschkow
nation	Russia
birthday	October 13, 1969
place of birth	Otradnoye
size	183 cm
Weight	82 kg
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Marina Yeltsova
Trainer	Natalia Pavlova
status	resigned
End of career	1999
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 1 × EM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Chiba 1994 Couples gold Edmonton 1996 Couples silver Lausanne 1997 Couples  European figure skating championships gold Helsinki 1993 Couples gold Paris 1997 Couples
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 1 1  Grand Prix competitions 9 5 3

Andrei Wassiljewitsch Buschkow ( Russian Андрей Васильевич Бушков ; born October 13, 1969 in Otradnoye ) is a former Russian figure skater who started in pair skating .

Buschkow's figure skating partner was initially Julia Liaschenko. With her he was third at the Junior World Championship in 1988. But he had international success with the seniors with his second figure skating partner Marina Jelzowa .

Buschkow began figure skating at the age of eight and was then trained by Andrei Suraikin . He then moved to Igor Moskvin until 1993, later the couple was coached by Natalia Pavlova. They started for the Jubilejni sports club.

At the side of Yeltsova he was Russian champion in pair skating in 1995, 1997 and 1998. The couple won only two medals at European championships , but two gold medals . They succeeded in doing so at their first European Championship, in Helsinki in 1993 and a second time in Paris in 1997 . They won their first medal at world championships with bronze in 1994 in Chiba . In 1996 Buschkow and Jelzowa were world champions in Edmonton . A year later it was enough for the silver medal in Lausanne . They finished their only Olympic Games in Nagano in 1998 in seventh place.

In 1999 both ended their amateur careers . Andrei Buschkow obtained his coaching license at the Sports Academy in Saint Petersburg . Today Buschkow is a trainer in Lake Arrowhead , California .

Results

Pair skating

(with Marina Jelzowa )

Competition / year	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
winter Olympics								7th
World championships			6th	3.	4th	1.	2.	6th
European championships			1.		4th	4th	1.	Z
Soviet championships	4th	3.
Russian championships			2.	4th	1.	2.	1.	1.	4th

• Z = withdrawn because Buschkov's skid broke

Web links

• Andrei Wassiljewitsch Buschkow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )