Ilya Isjaslavowitsch Awerbuch

Ilya Awerbuch
Full name	Ilya Isjaslavowitsch Awerbuch
nation	Russia
birthday	18th December 1973
place of birth	Moscow
size	177 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Irina Lobachova, Marina Anissina
society	Dynamo Moscow
Trainer	Natalja Linitschuk, Gennady Karponosov, Natalja Dybinskaja, Oleg Epstein
status	resigned
End of career	2003
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 0 × 3 ×
winter Olympics silver Salt Lake City 2002 Ice dance  World figure skating championships bronze Vancouver 2001 Ice dance gold Nagano 2002 Ice dance silver Washington 2003 Ice dance  European figure skating championships bronze Prague 1999 Ice dance bronze Bratislava 2001 Ice dance bronze Lausanne 2002 Ice dance gold Malmo 2003 Ice dance

Ilya Isjaslavowitsch Awerbuch ( Russian Илья Изяславович Авербух ; born December 18, 1973 in Moscow ) is a former Russian ice dancer.

In 1979 Awerbuch started figure skating. First he started with the later Olympic champion Marina Anissina , with whom he became junior world champion in 1990 and 1992 . During this time he fell in love with the ice dancer Irina Lobatschowa , who at that time was still starting with Alexei Pospelow .

In 1992, Lobatschowa / Awerbuch separated from their previous ice dance partners and ran together from then on. Lobacheva and Awerbuch married on March 10, 1995, their son Martin was born in 2004. The couple divorced in early November 2007.

Her greatest successes were winning the silver medal at the 2002 Olympics and winning the World Cup in the same year. They trained with Natalja Linitschuk and Gennady Karponosov . Awerbuch started for Dynamo Moscow .

Awerbuch has been working as a TV journalist since the end of his ice dancing career and is, among other things, an ice skating commentator. Awerbuch is also the owner of the Ice Symphony ice skating show .

Results

Ice dance

(with Irina Lobatschowa )

Competition / year	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
winter Olympics					5.				2.
World championships	13.	15th	6th	7th	4th	4th	4th	3.	1.	2.
European championships		9.	5.	5.	4th	3.	4th	3.	3.	1.
Russian championships	2.	3.	3.	1.	2.	2.	1.	1.	1.

(with Marina Anissina )

Competition / year	1990	1991	1992
Junior World Championships	1.	4th	1.

Web links

• Ilja Awerbuch in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Ilja Isjaslawowitsch Awerbuch in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )