Yevgeny Arkadyevich Platov

Yevgeny Platov
Full name	Yevgeny Arkadyevich Platov
nation	Soviet Union United Team Russia
birthday	7th August 1967
place of birth	Odessa
size	183 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Oxana Grishchuk
Former partner	Larissa Fjodorinowa, Jelena Krikanowa
status	resigned
End of career	1998
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 4 × 1 × 1 × EM medals 3 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Lillehammer 1994 Ice dance gold Nagano 1998 Ice dance  World figure skating championships bronze Oakland 1992 Ice dance silver Prague 1993 Ice dance gold Chiba 1994 Ice dance gold Birmingham 1995 Ice dance gold Edmonton 1996 Ice dance gold Lausanne 1997 Ice dance  European figure skating championships bronze Lausanne 1992 Ice dance silver Helsinki 1993 Ice dance silver Copenhagen 1994 Ice dance gold Sofia 1996 Ice dance gold Paris 1997 Ice dance gold Milan 1998 Ice dance

Evgeni Arkadjewitsch Platow (Russian Евгений Аркадьевич Платов ; born August 7, 1967 in Odessa , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian figure skater who started in ice dancing for the Soviet Union, the United Team and Russia .

Competitive career

From 1984 to 1986, Platow won the Junior World Championships in ice dance three times in a row alongside Jelena Krikanowa .

At senior level, his first ice dance partner from 1987 was Larissa Fyodorinova . With her he reached sixth place in his world championship debut in 1989 .

In 1989, trainer Natalja Dubowa brought him together with Oxana Grishchuk . Just three months later, they finished third on the podium at the Soviet championships . They finished their joint debut at World and European Championships in 1990 in fifth place.

In 1992 Grishchuk and Platov went for the first time as Soviet champions. They won their first bronze medals at these tournaments at both the European and World Championships . They finished their debut at the Olympic Games in Albertville in fourth place.

In the autumn of 1992 Natalja Linitschuk and Gennady Karponosov were new coaches from Grishchuk and Platov. As the reigning Russian champions , the ice dance couple became vice-European and vice-world champions in 1993 .

In 1994 they were again vice European champions . At the Olympic Games in Lillehammer , Grishchuk and Platov won the gold medal. They defeated the reamateurized Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean , who were also reigning European champions, and the then reigning world champions Maja Ussowa and Alexander Schulin . In Chiba , Japan , Grishchuk and Platow became world champions for the first time a little later .

Grishchuk and Platov missed much of the 1994/95 season, including the European Championship, due to injury. At the World Cup in Birmingham , however, they were able to compete again and defended their world championship title.

In 1996, Grishchuk and Platov became European champions for the first time in Sofia . In Edmonton they became world champions again. Then Tatyana Tarasova became her new trainer. They missed the first half of the 1996/97 season but returned in time to defend their European Championship title in Paris in 1997 . In Lausanne they became world champions for the fourth time in a row.

1998 won Grishchuk and Platow in Milan for the third time in a row at the European Championships. At the Olympic Games in Nagano they defended their title and were again Olympic champions. Then they ended their competitive career.

In the period from 1994 to 1998, Grishchuk and Platov won 20 competitions in a row. They are the only pair of ice dancers to have won gold twice at the Olympics. Grishchuk and Platov combined speed and demanding elements and demonstrated their mastery of numerous different dance styles.

After their competitive career, Grishchuk and Platow ran together in various shows. Then they decided to swap partners with their former rivals Maja Ussowa and Alexander Schulin. Nine years after the end of their careers, Platow and Oxana "Pascha" Grishchuk appeared together again for the first time at the annual Christmas show on Red Square in Moscow. In 2008 they met in Nagano to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their Olympic victory.

Coaching career

From 2002 to 2004, Platow and Maja Ussowa assisted his former trainer Tatiana Tarasova in Simsbury , Connecticut . In this role he helped to lead Shizuka Arakawa to the 2004 world title. He also worked briefly with Sasha Cohen and Johnny Weir .

In the fall of 2005, Platow went to New Jersey and became the assistant coach of his former rival Alexander Schulin . As a result, he was involved in the successes of Tatjana Nawka and Roman Kostomarow . When Schulin returned to Russia, Platov became a coach on his own. His students included Sinead and John Kerr as well as Galit Chait and Sergei Sachnowski .

Platow is currently (2009) working as a trainer at Princeton Sports Center in Monmouth Junction , New Jersey .

Personal

Platow married the former figure skater and later actress Maria Anikanowa in 1991, but divorced in 1997.

Results

Ice dance

(with Oxana Grishchuk )

Competition / year	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
winter Olympics			4th		1.				1.
World championships	5.	4th	3.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.
European championships	5.	5.	3.	2.	2.		1.	1.	1.
Soviet championships	3.	2.	1.
Russian championships				1.			1.

(with Larissa Fjodorinowa )

Competition / year	1988	1989
World championships		6th
Soviet championships	4th	4th

(with Jelena Krikanowa )

Competition / year	1984	1985	1986
Junior World Championships	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Evgeni Arkadjewitsch Platow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jere Longman: SKATING; Dancing on the Sharp Edge of Her Skates . In: The New York Times , January 2, 1998. Retrieved May 22, 2009. 
2. ↑ Olympic Insider . In: TIME , February 16, 1998. Retrieved May 22, 2009. 
3. ↑ Lifeskate.com, January 2, 2009 ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Lifeskate.com, January 2, 2009 ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ http://www.figureskatingmystery.com/2007/05/shes-not-famous-skater-and-she-doesnt.html