Artur Valeryevich Dmitriev

Artur Dmitriev

Artur Dmitriev as coach in 2010

Full name

Artur Valeryevich Dmitriev

nation

Soviet Union United Team Russia

birthday

January 21, 1968

place of birth

Bila Tserkva, Soviet Union

size

183 cm

Weight

82 kg

Career

discipline

Pair skating

Partner

Natalja Mischkutjonok,
Oxana Kazakowa

Trainer

Tamara Moskvina

status

resigned

End of career

1998

Medal table

Olympic medals	2 ×	1 ×	0 ×
World Cup medals	2 ×	0 ×	2 ×
EM medals	3 ×	1 ×	3 ×

winter Olympics
gold	Albertville 1992	Couples
silver	Lillehammer 1994	Couples
gold	Nagano 1998	Couples
World figure skating championships
bronze	Halifax 1990	Couples
gold	Munich 1991	Couples
gold	Oakland 1992	Couples
bronze	Lausanne 1997	Couples
European figure skating championships
bronze	Birmingham 1989	Couples
bronze	Leningrad 1990	Couples
gold	Sofia 1991	Couples
gold	Lausanne 1992	Couples
bronze	Copenhagen 1994	Couples
gold	Sofia 1996	Couples
silver	Milan 1998	Couples

Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix

Podium placements	1.	2.	3.
Grand Prix Final	0	1	1
Grand Prix competitions	8th	2	2

Artur Valerjewitsch Dmitrijew ( Russian Артур Валерьевич Дмитриев ; born January 21, 1968 in Bila Zerkwa , near Kiev ) is a former Russian figure skater who started in pair skating for the Soviet Union , the United Team and Russia .

Career

Artur Dmitrijew started figure skating when he was six. He trained in Saint Petersburg . His trainer was Tamara Moskwina . From 1987 to 1994 he started together with Natalja Mischkutjonok . They initially represented the Soviet Union and, after its collapse, Russia . In 1988 they made their European Championship debut and finished it in fourth place. A year later they won their first major international medal with bronze at the European Championships in Birmingham . They in turn defended them a year later in Leningrad . In 1990 they made their world championship debut in Halifax and immediately won the bronze medal. After the resignation of their compatriots Yekaterina Gordejewa and Sergei Grinkow , the four-time Soviet runners-up became European champions in Sofia in 1991 and world champions in Munich . In 1992 Mishkutjonok and Dmitrijew achieved total triumph by winning gold medals at the European Championships in Lausanne , the World Championships in Oakland and the Olympic Games in Albertville . They ran the Olympic freestyle to Franz Liszt's love dream.

After their Olympic victory, Dmitryev and Mishkutjonok switched to the professionals. However, they let themselves be reamateurised for the 1994 Winter Olympics and won the silver medal behind the likewise reamateurised Gordejewa and Grinkow. Before that, they had become Russian runners-up and won the bronze medal at the European Championships . The couple created a new pair of pirouette, which is often copied today. After the 1994 Winter Olympics, the couple separated.

Dmitriev and Kazakova, 2002

Dmitriev found a new partner in Oxana Kazakowa . With her he became European champion in Sofia in 1996 and vice-European champion in Milan in 1998 . They won their only world championship medal with bronze in 1997 in Lausanne . The greatest success of the couple Dmitrijew and Kazakowa was the Olympic victory in 1998 in Nagano before their favorite compatriots Jelena Bereschnaja and Anton Sicharulidze . This makes Dmitrijew the only man to date to have become an Olympic pair skating champion with two different partners . In 1998 the couple ended their amateur career.

Although they were competitors, Dmitriev was friends with Sergei Grinkov and Anton Sicharulidze. He even helped Tamara Moskvina to train Sicharulidze, although the two were still running against each other.

Artur Dmitrijew married the 1985 world gymnastics champion Tatyana Druzhinina in 1992 . The couple has a son named Artur. Druschinina works as a figure skating choreographer and choreographed, among other things, the programs for the 2006 Olympic Games for the later Olympic champions Tatiana Nawka and Roman Kostomarow, and today she choreographs for Juko Kawaguti and Alexander Smirnow . However, the marriage ended in divorce in 2006. Dmitriev is now married to Tatiana Fedorova, an accountant, and has a son named Artyom with her. Together with Tamara Moskwina he trained the pair skaters Katarina Gerboldt and Alexander Enbert .