Yevgeny Viktorovich Plyushchenko

Yevgeny Plyushchenko
Yevgeny Pljuschtschenko at his 2010 European Championship win
Full name	Yevgeny Viktorovich Plyushchenko
nation	Russia
birthday	3rd November 1982
place of birth	Jamku, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
size	178 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
discipline	Single run
society	Jubileiny Sports Club St. Petersburg
Trainer	Alexei Mishin
choreographer	Dawid Awdysch, Maxim Stawiski
National squad	since 1994
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 1 × 1 × EM medals 7 × 3 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Salt Lake City 2002 Men's gold Turin 2006 Men's silver Vancouver 2010 Men's gold Sochi 2014 team  World figure skating championships bronze Minneapolis 1998 Men's silver Helsinki 1999 Men's gold Vancouver 2001 Men's gold Washington 2003 Men's gold Dortmund 2004 Men's  European figure skating championships silver Milan 1998 Men's silver Prague 1999 Men's gold Vienna 2000 Men's gold Bratislava 2001 Men's gold Malmo 2003 Men's silver Budapest 2004 Men's gold Turin 2005 Men's gold Lyon 2006 Men's gold Tallinn 2010 Men's gold Sheffield 2012 Men's
Personal best
Total points 263.25 Volvo Cup 2013  Freestyle 180.91 Volvo Cup 2013  Short program 91.30 EM 2010
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 4th 2 1  Grand Prix competitions 18th 3 0
last change: November 11, 2013

Evgeni Plushenko ( Russian Евгений Викторович Плющенко ; English transcription: Evgeni Plushenko Victorovich ; listen ^{? / I} ; *  3. November 1982 in Dschamku , Rajon Solnetschny , Khabarovsk , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian figure skaters . He was Olympic champion in 2006 and 2014 (team) , world champion in 2001 , 2003 and 2004 and European champion in 2000 , 2001 , 2003 , 2005 , 2006 , 2010 and 2012 .

biography

Pljushchenko was born in the rural settlement of Jamku in Solnechny Raion , Khabarovsk Region , Siberia . The family moved to Volgograd when he was three years old.

Plyushchenko started figure skating at the age of four. He came to this sport through his mother, Tatiana Vasilievna. When he was eleven, the ice rink in Volgograd, where he was training at the time, was closed. So he moved to Saint Petersburg . His mother followed him a year later, while his father Viktor, a carpenter by trade, and his sister Jelena stayed in Volgograd.

Figure skating career

Since moving to Saint Petersburg, Plyushchenko has been trained by Alexei Mishin in the Jubileiny Sports Complex and started for the 'Jubileiny Sports Club'. At the beginning of his career he trained in a group with the 1994 Olympic champion Alexei Urmanov and the 2002 Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin , who later became Pljushchenko's fiercest competitor , especially after Yagudin switched to coach Tatyana Tarasova . This competitive situation continued after Jagudin's injury-related retirement. One of Pljushchenko's fiercest competitors, Brian Joubert from France , was advised by Jagudin in the 2003/2004 season.

Pljushchenko with his coach Alexei Mishin during the Russian championships in 2004

At the age of fourteen, Plyushchenko won the 1997 World Junior Championship . In the following year he made his debut at the European and World Championships for seniors and reached the podium straight away on both occasions. At the European Championships in Milan he was runner-up behind Alexei Jagudin and at the World Championships in Minneapolis he won the bronze medal behind Jagudin and the American Todd Eldredge . In 1999 Pljushchenko went for the first time as a Russian champion. Both at the European Championships in Prague and at the World Championships in Helsinki , he won the silver medal behind Alexei Yagudin. The 1999/2000 season began very successfully for Plyushchenko: He won all three Grand Prix competitions in which he competed and for the first time the Grand Prix final . Jagudin had to cancel due to an injury. As the reigning Russian champion, he became European champion for the first time in Vienna in 2000 (and his rival Jagudin second). At the world championship he took fourth place. He was able to make up for this flaw in the following season. He won all the tournaments in which he participated. Again he won all three Grand Prix competitions as well as the Grand Prix final. For the third time in a row he became Russian champion and defended his European championship title in Bratislava from Alexei Yagudin. This time, however, he also managed to win the world championship in Vancouver . Confidently, with wins in qualification, the short program and the freestyle, he relegated Jagudin to second place again. The 2001/02 season began for Plyushchenko with victories in his two Grand Prix competitions . However, he was defeated by Alexei Jagudin in the Grand Prix final . In the absence of Jagudin he was the fourth time in a row Russian champions and so went into the Olympic year 2002. At the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City Pljushchenko and Jagudin were favorites. After Plyushchenko fell in the short program and Jagudin showed two outstanding programs, Plyushchenko had to be content with the silver medal. Alexei Yagudin resigned after his Olympic victory.

After Jagudin's resignation, Plyushchenko won almost all of the competitions he competed. In the 2002/03 season, he won the Cup of Russia and the Bofrost Cup for the fourth time in a row and won the Grand Prix final for the third time in his career . He became European champion for the third time in Malmö in 2003 and world champion for the second time in Washington . In the 2003/04 season Plyushchenko won all three Grand Prix competitions in which he took part, but was surprisingly defeated in the Grand Prix final to the Canadian Emanuel Sandhu . At the European Championships in Budapest he had to admit defeat to Brian Joubert . Unimpressed by this, Plyushchenko won his third world championship title a little later in Dortmund . In December 2004 he won the Grand Prix final for the fourth time . At the European Championships in Turin , he got his title back from Brian Joubert, albeit just barely. At the World Cup in Moscow he had to give up due to a knee injury and then had an operation in Munich . He became European champion in Lyon in 2006 and was the clear favorite for the Olympic Games in Turin . There he won the outstanding gold medal. Already after the short program he had a lead of ten points over runner-up Johnny Weir by setting a new world record of 90.66 points, and he achieved the same with 167.67 points in the freestyle. In the end, he won by almost 30 points over second-placed Stéphane Lambiel . His freestyle music was specially arranged for him by the violinist Edvin Marton .

Plyushchenko at the 2005 European Championships

After the Olympic Games, Pljushchenko took a break from competition and only ran a few shows, but did not become a professional to keep all future opportunities open. In 2006 he presented "Swjosdy na ldu" (Russian Звёзды на льду, a Stars-on-Ice copy of the Perwy channel that was very successful in Russia).

During a press conference in February 2007, Pljushchenko's coach announced that he was training again and that he was planning to appear again as an amateur in the 2008/09 season. (“I want Russian ice skating to remain at a suitable level and I could build a bridge to the young runners.”, Quote, Pljuschtschenko). Before that, he underwent several knee operations in Germany. Due to health problems, however, his comeback was postponed and he did not return to the international ice skating stage until the 2009/10 Olympic season. In his first competition, the Cup of Russia , he won the gold medal by superiority, the eighth overall for him in this competition. He was also the Russian champion for the eighth time. At the 2010 European Championships in Tallinn , he set a new world record on January 20, 2010 in the short program with 91.30 points. The next day he won the European Championship title ahead of Stéphane Lambiel, who also celebrated his successful comeback on the international stage. Plyushchenko was now a big favorite for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . In the lead after the short program, he finished second after the final freestyle, behind Olympic champion Evan Lysacek from the USA and ahead of bronze medalist Daisuke Takahashi from Japan.

This result sparked controversy. Pliushchenko and the Russian public felt cheated of victory. Evan Lysacek had not shown a quadruple jump and Pljushchenko was of the opinion that you should not become an Olympic champion without a quadruple jump: “I think we have to change the evaluation system - a quadruple jump is a quadruple jump. If an Olympic champion doesn't show a quadruple jump, I don't know… ”. Even before his freestyle, Pljushchenko had said: “Without a quadruple it is not men's figure skating. I will definitely show a quadruple. I believe that quad jumping is the future of figure skating. The quadruple jump is necessary, that's my opinion. ”Pljushchenko followed his words with deeds and showed the quadruple jump in his freestyle in a quadruple toe -toe- toe -toe-loop combination. However, he skipped a planned double Rittberger in a combination and landed most of his jumps not as perfectly clean as Lysacek had done. Despite his quadruple jump, Plyushchenko got a lower rating than Lysacek in the technical elements. Pljushchenko told a Russian newspaper that in the short program three judges had placed him in 21st and 22nd place in terms of his figure skating skills and the computer evaluated all three and eliminated judges who had placed Pljushchenko in 1st place from the rating. “If that's the way judges' scores are given, then you can win and lose as well. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to criticize the new rules, they are not bad, but they need further improvement. ”Pljushchenko was also angry with the Russian Figure Skating Federation and that it did not stand up enough for its athletes. “After the short program, I should have been at least five points ahead of the others. In the end it was only 0.55 points and our association does not react at all. ”Pair- running legend Irina Rodnina noted that although she had hoped Pljushchenko would win, he had many small mistakes in his freestyle and lacked the passion he had in Turin had shown four years earlier. Pljuschtschenko, on the other hand, received support from Elvis Stojko and the coaches Reinhard E. Ketterer , Tatjana Tarasowa and Halyna Smijewska . At the ISU conference in June, the base value for quadruple jumps was increased slightly.

Pljuschtschenko canceled participation in the World Cup and announced participation in the Olympic Games in Sochi as a new goal . For the first time again in appearance in competitions Pljuschtschenko then appeared at the Russian championships for 2012. He won his ninth championship title in Saransk . Shortly afterwards he won the gold medal at the European Championships in Sheffield . It was his seventh European Championship title. The attempt to repeat this in 2013 failed: At the European Championships in Zagreb , to which he entered with severe back pain, he was only in sixth place after the short program in which he failed several elements and gave up. He skipped the subsequent World Cup in London (Canada) in order to recover from a disc operation in Israel, and did not enter an international competition in Riga until November, where he was the superior winner with a new personal best. He has had an artificial disc since the operation .

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he won the gold medal in the team competition held for the first time with Russia. He was unable to compete in the individual competition at short notice because he suffered a back injury when he came in for the short program. Then he declared his career end.

Coaching career

Pljuschtschenko has been a coach since 2017, where he looks after the individual Russian runners Serafima Sakhanovich and Anastasia Tarakanova .

Technology, style and special services

Plyushchenko was the first and is one of the few male figure skaters who managed to perform the Biellmann pirouette .

Plushenko jumped at the NHK Trophy in 1999 as the first figure skater to compete the combination quadruple toe loop -Triple-toe loop-double Rittberger (4-3-2). Since then he has landed this combination 26 times. He is also the first figure skater to show a four-way toe-loop, three-way toe-loop, three-way Rittberger combination (4-3-3) in the competition; he did this four times. Pljuschtschenko also showed a triple toe loop, triple toe loop, triple Rittberger, double Rittberger combination (3-3-3-2) for the first time in 2005. At the show of a European championship he showed a combination with six jumps (3-3-2-2-2-2) and at the 2001 World Championship a combination with four jumps (four-toe loop, three-way toe loop, double Rittberger, double Rittberger ). Pljuschtschenko regularly jumped constant quadruple toe loops in the competition and in 2004 also did a quadruple Salchow in Samara . In training he was one of the few figure skaters to jump a four-fold Rittberger and a four-fold Lutz .

At the age of 16, Pljushchenko was the youngest male figure skater to receive the highest grade of 6.0. He received a total of 75 top marks until the old rating system was abolished.

Yevgeny Pljuschtschenko is next to Gillis Grafström the only figure skater who could win at least three medals in the men's competition at the Olympic Games. Grafström even won four medals between 1920 and 1932.

Pljuschtschenko together with the Hungarian violinists Edvin Marton and Dima Bilan in the semifinals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Eurovision Song Contest 2008

In 2008 Pljuschtschenko assisted Dima Bilan in his victory at the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade by supporting the performance of the Russian candidate on an artificial ice plate .

education

Pljuschtschenko studied at the children's and youth sports school for figure skating in Saint Petersburg since 1994 and graduated from high school in 1998. From 2000 to 2005 he studied at the Russian State University for Physical Culture, Sport and Health " PF Lesgaft " in Saint Petersburg. Since 2004 he has been an external student at the Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management of the St. Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics .

Private life

Pljushchenko is (as a member of the Central Army Sports Club) a first lieutenant in the Russian army.

On June 18, 2005, he married Marija Jermak, then 20 years old. His wife studied sociology at the University of St. Petersburg. Their son Yegor (originally Kristian) Evgenjewitsch Pljuschtschenko was born on June 15, 2006. However, the marriage was divorced in February 2008 and after a violent legal dispute, the father had to accept that his son will in future bear the mother's surname.

On September 12, 2009, Pljushchenko married the producer of Dima Bilan Jana Rudkowskaja (* 1975). On January 6, 2013 their son Alexander was born. Rudkovskaya already has a son and an adopted son from a previous marriage.

Others

Pljushchenko was elected to the Legislative Assembly (Parliament) of Saint Petersburg in March 2007 for the Just Russia party . He came under fire because he was only present at 11 of 123 meetings. On the other hand, there were disagreements with the party leadership. On December 1, 2011, he announced that he wanted to give up his seat.

Results

Plyushchenko at the 2010 European Championships

Championship / year	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2010	2012	2013	2014
winter Olympics							2.				1.	2.			Z 1st team
World championships			3.	2.	4th	1.		1.	1.	Z				Z
European championships			2.	2.	1.	1.		1.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	Z
Junior World Championships	6th	1.
Russian championships	6th	4th	3.	1.	1.	1.	1.		1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	2.
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Grand Prix competition / season	95/96	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	09/10	11/12	12/13	13/14
Grand Prix Final			5.	3.	1.	1.	2.	1.	2.	1.
Skate America			2.
Skate Canada				1.					1.
Bofrost Cup					1.	1.	1.	1.
Trophée Lalique									1.
Cup of Russia		4th	2.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
NHK Trophy				1.	1.	1.

• Plyushchenko did not participate in the 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09 and 2010/11 seasons
• Z = withdrawn

Web links

Commons : Yevgeny Viktorovich Pljuschtschenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Yevgeny Pljuschtschenko in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Yevgeny Viktorovich Pljuschtschenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• official homepage

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1. ^ Even in defeat, Yevgeny Plushenko steals show English
2. ↑ http://www.izvestia.ru/sport/article3139336/
3. ↑ http://worldmeets.us/lifenews000001.shtml#axzz1EtcRUKQU
4. ↑ http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/figure_skating/news?slug=es-thoughts021810
5. ↑ http://www.sports.ru/others/figure-skating/69335324.html
6. ↑ http://www.kp.ru/daily/24445/610845/
7. ↑ Defending champion Pluschenko leaves
8. ↑ When the body goes on strike - Plushenko gives up at the European figure skating championships
9. ↑ Pluschenko cancels for World Cup
10. ↑ Plushenko operated on an intervertebral disc
11. ↑ Plushenko wins Volvo Cup, confirms strong comeback English
12. ^ FAZ February 6, 2014, p. 24: Tango for the people
13. ↑ Drama about figure skaters Pluschenko Süddeutsche.de, February 13, 2014, accessed on February 13, 2014.
14. ^ Klaus-Reinhold Kany: Gold for Savchenko / Massot at Skate America . In: pirouette . Volume 50, No. 10, 2017, p. 28.
15. ↑ Plushenko operated on an intervertebral disc . In: pirouette . Volume 52, No. 2, 2019, p. 8.